Posts published under the Open source Team account are collective contributions by the dbi services open infrastructure consultants. The practice covers open-source databases and platforms, PostgreSQL first of all, along with MySQL, MariaDB, and Linux, from architecture, replication, and high availability to performance tuning and operations under service level agreements, and contributes actively to the PostgreSQL community.
The last post about Db2 was about getting it up and running. As the issue we had to solve was about performance, getting an explain plan for the problematic statement(s) was the obvious step to do. In PostgreSQL you can just use EXPLAIN for that, and you’re done. In Db2 the procedure is a bit different, but once you know…
Some time ago I’ve written about migrating a CentOS 8 machine to Red Hat 8, because CentOS 8 reached end of life last December. We did that for all CentOS 8 installations at that customer and all are running as virtual machines. The very same customer has many EC2 instances running on CentOS 7. Migrating away from CentOS 7 is…
For this installation i’m using a Hardkernel Odroid N2/N2+ which are ARM S922X, means ARM Big Little Architecture with Quad-Core-ARM-Cortex-A73-CPU-Cluster and a Dual-Core-Cortex-A53-Cluster and a Mali-G52-GPU. These device is normaly a good device as Mediaplayer using Coreelec based on Kodi, it has everything needed for including IR receiver for IR remote device. The installation of ARMBIAN is a easy step,…
My last contact with IBM Db2 was more than 10 years ago, and that only on the SQL/application level. I’ve never done an installation of Db2 as most of our customers either don’t use it, or we don’t know about it, or these databases are managed by other teams than those we work with. And now we have a request…
Percona Monitoring and Management tool (PMM) is an Open Source product which was developed to help DBAs and developers to monitor and manage MySQL, PostgreSQL and MongoDB performances. In this blog post, we will see that we can do much more with it! I discovered this tool 2 years ago when I started a monitoring study for a customer, and…
This Blog is about the actual status of the development on Microsoft’s side for the Azure Flexible Server for PostgreSQL. The Flexible Server is announced “GA Ready” at November 30st, after shiftig the GA Raeady date several times. But there are still some open requirements which are “Post GA”. 1. AD Integration => Post GA, promissed Q2 2022. 2. Customer…
By the end of the last post we finished with a running Zabbix server which uses PostgreSQL as it’s back-end database. In addition a Zabbix agent is running on the same host, so the monitoring host itself is present in the Zabbix console. In this post will deploy the Zabbix agent on three PostgreSQL Patroni nodes and later on configure…
PostgresBuild2021 is currently ongoing and as usual, I had questions after my talk I could not immediately answer. One of the best ways to learn, is to present a topic. There are for sure questions you never thought about. The topic of my talk was “An introduction to server side programming” and I wanted to give people easy examples about…
We are often asked which monitoring solution we recommend for PostgreSQL, by people attending our PostgreSQL workshops. We usually answer: What do you have in place already? If a solution already is in place, the most obvious way is trying to integrate into the existing solution. If nothing is there already, you have plenty of choices. You can find some…
We have quite a few customers still running on CentOS 8 and you probably already are aware that CentOS 8 will be end of life by the end of this year. This forces a lot of companies to either switch to an alternative or to stick with CentOS stream. For most enterprise workloads CentOS stream is not a solution as…
When it comes to backup and restore of PostgreSQL we usually recommend pgBackRest to our customers. This tool comes with many options and features and should bring everything you need. Most of the times we install a dedicated backup host for pgBackRest, which centralizes all backups of the PostgreSQL instances. Sometimes we have several of those, e.g. one for production…
Last week PostgreSQL 14.1, and all other minor versions for the supported version of PostgreSQL have been released. As usual, it is highly recommended to update to the latest minor release as soon as possible. Minor version updates of PostgreSQL are just a matter of installing the new binaries, shutting down the old cluster and starting it up again using…
