Posts about Production Postgres
Announcing Google Cloud Storage (GCS) Support for pgBackRest
Today we're announcing Crunchy Bridge support for Managed Postgres on Google Cloud. With Crunchy Bridge you can now have the same great PostgreSQL experience on any cloud and seamlessly migrate between cloud vendors as you see fit.
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Database Terminology Explained: Postgres High Availability and Disaster Recovery
What follows is a summary of conversations I've had with customers on how to think about key tenants of database management, high availability and disaster recovery.
Deep PostgreSQL Thoughts: The Linux Assassin
When Linux detects that the system is using too much memory, it will identify processes for termination and, well, assassinate them. The OOM killer has a noble role in ensuring a system does not run out of memory, but this can lead to unintended consequences.
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The Answer is Postgres; The Question is How?
Deciding to use Postgres is a great start, we like to think it’s the right start. As to how best to deploy it, you have a number of options.
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Change Data Capture in Postgres With Debezium
A step-by-step guide for how to setup PostgreSQL change data capture with Debezium and Apache Kafka.
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Cleaning Up Your Postgres Database
Actionable steps on how to improve your Postgres database performance.
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Postgres: The Friendly Relational Member of Your Data Management Toolbox
The recent selection of Postgres as the "Database of the Year" for the third time in four years is by no means an overnight success story, but is well deserved recognition for a database decades in the making. As organizations look for the relational database of the future, Postgres is ready and waiting. We are proud to be among the leading contributors and supporters of this important movement.
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PostgreSQL 13 Benchmark: Memory Speed vs. TPS
Today I'm changing the memory speed on my main test system, going from 2133MHz to 3200MHz, and measuring how that impacts PostgreSQL SELECT results. I'm seeing a 3% gain on this server, but as always with databases that's only on a narrow set of in-memory use cases.
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PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020
This week Apple started delivering Macs using their own Apple Silicon chips, starting with a Mac SOC named the M1. M1 uses the ARM instruction set and claims some amazing acceleration for media workloads. I wanted to know how it would do running PostgreSQL, an app that's been running on various ARM systems for years. The results are great!
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Postgres Streaming Replication on Windows: A Quick Guide
In this blog post, we'll discuss how to set up streaming replication in Windows. Credit goes to my colleague Douglas Hunley whose blog post on setting up streaming replication on Linux served as inspiration.
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PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple Intel MacBook Pro, 2011-2019
Apple's Intel-based laptops are very popular among developers, and that's as true of people who work on PostgreSQL as other groups. Tomorrow, the first shipping Apple laptops running on ARM CPUs instead of Intel are expected.
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Online Upgrades in Postgres
In our previous blog post, we talked about upgrading a PostgreSQL cluster to a new major version with pg_upgrade. But in some instances zero downtime may be essential.
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Tuning Your Postgres Database for High Write Loads
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.
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PostgreSQL Monitoring for App Developers: Alerts & Troubleshooting
When should you be alerted about issues in your PostgreSQL clusters? How do you troubleshoot them? What are some typical solutions?
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PostgreSQL Monitoring for Application Developers: The DBA Fundamentals
What are some PostgreSQL monitoring stats that are typically used to monitor the health of your databases?
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PostgreSQL Monitoring for Application Developers: The Vitals
What are some of the key stats to look at to ensure your PostgreSQL cluster is healthy? How can you use this stats to diagnose the problem?
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How to Setup PostgreSQL Monitoring in Kubernetes
Set up turnkey monitoring for PostgreSQL clusters running on Kubernetes using the Postgres Operator!
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Synchronous Replication in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL has supported streaming replication and hot standbys since version 9.0 (2010), and synchronous replication since version 9.1 (2011).
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PostgreSQL 13 Upgrade and Performance Check on Ubuntu/Debian: 1.6GB/s random reads
PostgreSQL 13 was released last week. I'm excited about this one, as the more mature partitioning plus logical replication features allow some long-requested deployment architectures
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Hidden Gems of PostgreSQL 13
Which hidden gem features in Postgres 13 can have a big impact?
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