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Tom Swartz
Tom Swartz
As a database grows and scales up from a proof of concept to a full-fledged production instance, there are always a variety of growing pains that database administrators and systems administrators will run into. Very often, the engineers on the Crunchy Data support team help support enterprise projects which start out as small, proof of concept systems, and are then promoted to large scale production uses. As these systems receive increased traffic load beyond their original proof-of-concept s...
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Tom Swartz
By design, the out of the box configuration for PostgreSQL is defined to be a "Jack of All Trades, Master of None". The default configuration for PostgreSQL is fairly painstakingly chosen to ensure that it will run on every environment it is installed, meeting the lowest common denominator resources across most platforms. Because of this, it's always recommended that one of the first actions performed once an install of PostgreSQL is completed, would be to tune and configure some high-level se...
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Tom Swartz
pgBackRest is a reliable and simple to configure backup and restore solution for PostgreSQL, which provides a powerful solution for any PostgreSQL database; be it a small project, or scaled up to enterprise-level use cases. Many powerful features are included in pgBackRest, including parallel backup and restore, local or remote operation, full, incremental, and differential backup types, backup rotation, archive expiration, backup integrity, page checksums, backup resume, streaming compression a...
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