Daniel Westermann

getting started with postgres plus advanced server (4) – setting up the monitoring server

If you followed the first, second and the third post the current ppas infrastructure consists of a primary database, a hot standby database and a backup and recovery server. Now we will add(…)

getting started with postgres plus advanced server (3) – setting up a hot standby server

So, we have a ppas 94 database up and running and we have a backup server for backing up and restoring the database. Now it is time to additionally protect the database by setting(…)

getting started with postgres plus advanced server (2) – setting up a backup and recovery server

The first post in this series explained how to get ppas installed on a linux system. Now that the database cluster is up and running we should take care immediately about backup and recovery. For this I’ll(…)

getting started with postgres plus advanced server (1) – setting up ppas

I did several posts around postgresql and postgres plus advanced server in the past. What is missing is a beginners guide on how to get postgres plus advanced server up and running including a solution for backup and(…)

bulk loading semi structured data in postgresql

The last post took a look at how to efficiently load 1m rows into a table in PostgreSQL. In this post I’ll take a look on how to do the same with semi structured data.

Variations on 1M rows insert(2): commit write – PostgreSQL

Franck was quite fast with his second post Variations on 1M rows insert(2): commit write. Lets see what we can do on the PostgreSQL side. I’ll take the same test table as Franck again: create(…)

Variations on 1M rows insert (1): bulk insert – PostgreSQL

When I read Franck’s post about Variations on 1M rows insert (1): bulk insert I thought doing quite the same in PostgreSQL might be interesting. Lets start by using the same test tables, one using a primary(…)