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Handling PostgreSQL installations from packages

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SLES15 SP1 – New features

With SLES15 SUSE introduced the Multimodal OS and the unified installer. Means, you only get what you really need. Your OS is flexible and you can easily add features you need and remove them as well. But this article shouldn't(…)

Patroni Operations – Changing Parameters

Sooner or later all of us have to change a parameter on the database. But how is this put into execution when using a Patroni cluster? Of course there are some specifics you have to consider. This post will give(…)

pgconf.eu – Welcome to the community

On tuesday I started my journey to Milan to attend my first pgconf.eu, which was also my first big conference. I was really excited what will come up to me. How will it be, to become a visible part of(…)

Patroni Operations – switchover and failover

In this post we will have a look at switchover and failover of a Patroni cluster. As well as a look at the maintenance mode Patroni offers, which gives the opportunity to prevent from an automatic failover.

Rolling Upgrade of a Galera Cluster with ClusterControl

Rolling Upgrade is easy In this blog, I will show you how easy it is with Clustercontrol to perform a Galera cluster “Rolling Upgrade” without any loss of service. Let’s say we want to upgrade from Percona XtraDB Cluster(…)

Upgrading from OpenLeap to SLES15

Sometimes business plans change and maybe you need to move your OpenLeap 15 Server to the supported version SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15. Upgrade is getting really easy with version 15. It can be performed online. So your server does(…)

In-person event (June 11,2019) Ansible Automates – Bern

A couple of weeks ago, I found in my inbox an invitation from Red Hat concerning an event organized in Bern about Ansible. I heard a lot about Automation but did not really know what can or could be(…)

SUSE Expert Day Zürich

On May 16th I visited the SUSE Expert Day in Zürich. An interesting Agenda was waiting for me, all under the topic: "My kind of open"(…)

Two node patroni does not failover when one node crashes

A few days ago I had the interesting mission to build a two Node Patroni Postgres 9.6 Cluster using etcd in our openDB Appliance environment. Sounds easy, one leader, one secondary, both running etcd, that's it. But that's only the(…)