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Crunchy Spatial: It's PostGIS, for the Web
The Crunchy Data geospatial team is excited to introduce Crunchy Spatial.
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How To Migrate From Trigger-Based Partitioning To Native in PostgreSQL
Learn how to migrate PostgreSQL partitions that use triggers/inheritance/constraints to partitions to the native implementation in PostgreSQL 11 and above.
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Guard Against Transaction Loss with PostgreSQL Synchronous Replication
Learn how to deploy PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with synchronous replication to guard against losing transactions.
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Scheduled PostgreSQL Backups and Retention Policies with Kubernetes
Schedule regular PostgreSQL backups and set storage retention with Kubernetes and pgBackRest and the PostgreSQL Operator
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Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL: Tips and Tricks
Migrating from one database to another is inherently new technology and can raise a multitude of questions.
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Deploy High Availability PostgreSQL Clusters on Kubernetes by Example
Deploy a high-availability PostgreSQL cluster on Kubernetes by example and learn how it works.
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How To Simplify pgBouncer Monitoring with pgbouncer_fdw
In order to more easily monitor PgBouncer, the team at Crunchy Data developed an open source PgBouncer Foreign Data Wrapper (pgbouncer_fdw).
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How To Improve pgBouncer Security with TLS/SSL
pgBouncer is a commonly deployed and recommended connection pooler for PostgreSQL and supports a number of authentication methods including TLS/SSL client certificate authentication.
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How to Perform a Major Version Upgrade Using pg_upgrade in PostgreSQL
Tested methods for upgrading PostgreSQL software from one major release to another with the least amount of headache.
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Hope Is Not A Strategy: How Hardware Issues Affect Your PostgreSQL Data
Learn how the HPE SSD issues can impact your PostgreSQL data, and what strategies you can take to protect your data.
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How To Get Started with pgBackRest and PostgreSQL 12
With the recent release of PostgreSQL 12, pgBackRest also received a number of updates and changes to take advantage of the latest features of Postgres.
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Enhancing PostgreSQL 12 Security with the CIS Benchmark
The CIS PostgreSQL 12 Benchmark continues to build upon previous versions and Crunchy Data’s efforts with the PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide.
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Monitoring PostgreSQL Clusters in Kubernetes
Learn how to monitor an enterprise PostgreSQL database-as-a-service cluster in Kubernetes using the PostgreSQL Operator and pgMonitor.
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PostgreSQL Change Data Capture With Debezium
A step-by-step guide for how to setup PostgreSQL change data capture with Debezium and Apache Kafka
10 min read
Waiting for PostGIS 3: ST_Transform() and Proj6
PostGIS makes use of the Proj library for coordinate reference system conversions, and PostGIS 3 will support the latest Proj release, version 6.
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Creating a PostgreSQL Cluster with Kubernetes CRDs
Learn how to create PostgreSQL clusters using the Kubernetes custom resource definitions (CRDs) provided by the PostgreSQL Operator.
8 min read
Just Upgrade: How PostgreSQL 12 Can Improve Your Performance
Just upgrade and take advantage of performance improvements in PostgreSQL 12.
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Waiting for PostGIS 3: GEOS 3.8
While PostGIS includes lots of algorithms and functionality we have built ourselves, it also adds geospatial smarts to PostgreSQL by linking in specialized libraries to handle particular problems.
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Waiting for PostGIS 3: Parallelism in PostGIS
Improvements in PostgreSQL 12 allow PostGIS 3 to use built-in query parallelism to execute accelerated geospatial queries.
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Waiting for PostGIS 3: ST_TileEnvelope(z,x,y)
The MVT tile format in PostGIS lets you generate tiles from PostgreSQL. The ST_TileEnvelope() function converts directly from tile to mercator coordinates.
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