Paul Ramsey
Paul Ramsey
Spatial indexes are used in PostGIS to quickly search for objects in space. Practically, this means very quickly answering questions of the form: • "all the things inside this this" or • "all the things near this other thing" "all the things inside this this" or "all the things near this other thing" Because spatial objects are often quite large and complex (for example, coastlines commonly are defined with thousands of points), spatial indexes use "bounding boxes" as index and search keys: •...
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Paul Laurence
Whether you are starting a new development project, launching an application modernization effort, or engaging in digital transformation, chances are you are evaluating Kubernetes. If you selected Kubernetes, chances are you will ultimately need a database . Kubernetes provides many benefits for running applications including efficiency, automation, or infrastructure abstraction. These features allow you to deploy highly availability databases and scale, making it easier to manage hardware f...
Read MoreStephen Frost
Stephen Frost
Contributing author David Youatt An underappreciated element of PostgreSQL performance can be the data types chosen and their organization in tables. For sites that are always looking for that incremental performance improvement, managing the exact layout and utilization of every byte of a row (also known as a tuple) can be worthwhile. This is an important consideration for databases that are migrating from other databases to PostgreSQL as the data types available in PostgreSQL and how th...
Read MoreCraig Kerstiens
Craig Kerstiens
Reality is messy, and for every, "We've standardized on cloud Amazon, Azure, or GCP" announcement, there are tens or hundreds of apps hidden within an organization running on the "other" cloud. Most workloads don't span across clouds, but every large organization has workloads on each cloud vendor. And for everyone's favorite database (Postgres) we're excited to say you don't have to compromise quality when it comes to which cloud vendor you're running on. Today we're announcing Crunchy Bridge...
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Craig Kerstiens
Connection pooling and management is one of those things most people ignore far too long when it comes to their database. When starting out, you can easily get by without it. With 1 or 2 application servers spawning 5-10 connections, even the tiniest of Postgres servers can handle such. Even with our $35 a month hobby plan on Crunchy Bridge , we can push 5,000 transactions per second through which is quite a bit for < 20 connections. As you grow into the hundreds, better connection management...
Read MoreElizabeth Christensen
Elizabeth Christensen
Additional Contributors: David Christensen, Jonathan Katz , and Stephen Frost Welp… sometimes “stuff” happens… and you find yourself having a really bad day. We'd like to believe that every database is well configured from the start with optimal log rotation, correct alerting of high CPU consumption and cache hit ratio monitoring… But that isn't always the case. Part of our job here at Crunchy is to help on the bad days in addition to preparing you to ensure those never happen. One frustrati...
Read MoreDavid Steele
David Steele
The pgBackRest team is pleased to announce the introduction of multiple repository support in v2.33. Backups already provide redundancy by creating an offline copy of your PostgreSQL cluster that can be used in disaster recovery. Multiple repositories allow you to have copies of your backups and WAL archives in separate locations to increase your redundancy and provide even more protection for your data. This feature is the culmination of many months of hard work, so let's delve into why we thin...
Read MoreCraig Kerstiens
Craig Kerstiens
Crunchy Data is pleased to announce its most recent release of pgBackRest: 2.33 with a number of new features including multiple repository support and GCS support. With pgBackRest 2.33 we are especially excited to add support for Google Cloud Storage ( GCS ) , a new addition to Amazon AWS S3 and Azure Repository support. pgBackRest is a reliable, high performance, easy-to-use backup and restore solution for Postgres that can seamlessly scale up to the largest databases and workloads by ut...
Read MoreElizabeth Christensen
Elizabeth Christensen
In my day to day, I'm surrounded by great database engineers. They talk about things like HA and raft protocol and the right and wrong approach for configuring synchronous vs. asynchronous replication. There is a lot of value in all that deep technical knowledge, but for when interacting with customers, I like to boil it down a bit. What I've seen is that for many folks the basics of key database principles can get lost in the details. What follows is a summary of conversations I've had with cus...
Read MorePaul Laurence
Paul Laurence
With the rise of Postgres, new organizations are evaluating how to benefit from its power and flexibility . As that evaluation progresses, Postgres advocates must address the question, "Is Postgres secure?" There are a variety of ways to answer this question, but the short answer is a confident "Yes!" At Crunchy Data, we often collaborate with organizational stakeholders to address this question. Many organizations have used the same collection of databases for years (maybe decades). The id...
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