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.
It is the time of The 10th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe, so this is the perfect time to blog about some tips and tricks around psql you’ll love. psql is such a powerful tool that you really should use it every day. It saves you so much work and is packed with features that makes your life so much easier.…
In a recent project at a customer where we synchronize the users and group out of Active Directory we hit a little issue I was not aware of before. Suppose you have created a role in PostgreSQL, you made that role a superuser and then granted that role to another role. What happens when you login using the other role?…
In the last post it was all about the Installation of Red Hat Satellite and the components that are used under the hood. In this post it is about doing the initial configuration so that packages can be synchronized from the Red Hat content network and subscriptions are available to be consumed by clients. This requires some initial tasks to…
This is the start of a series of posts I wanted to write for a long time: Getting started with Red Hat Satellite. Just in case you don’t know what it is, this statement from the official Red Hat website summarizes it quite well: “As your Red Hat® environment continues to grow, so does the need to manage it to…
We hear about Docker every day. By working on MySQL Server, I am curious to test this platform which makes it possible to create containers independent of the OS to deploy virtualized applications. So let’s try to deploy a MySQL Server with Docker! Here is the architecture we will put in place: So we will run a Docker container for…
This blog refers to an older version of EDB’s Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. A few days ago EnterpriseDB announced the availability of version 2.3 of the EDB containers for OpenShift. The main new feature in this release is the integration of PEM (Postgres Enterprise Manager), so in this post we’ll look at how we can…
Being at customers is always the best way to learn. Today while discussing that pg_dump will always produce a consistent dump because it uses the “repeatable read” isolation level this question came up: What happens when we dump a database and while the dump is running we truncate a table in that database? Does that block? Well, the answer is…
A recent blog post from Franck and a tweet around that topic is the inspiration for this blog post, thanks Jan for requesting :). In short it is about how small you can get the binaries. Is that important? At least when it comes to Docker images it might get important as you usually try make the image as small…
In the last post we had a look on how you can bring up a customized PostgreSQL instance in the Azure cloud. Now I want to check what you can do with the managed service. For the managed service I am expecting that I can bring up a PostgreSQL quite easily and fast and that I can add replicas on…
The Azure cloud becomes more and more popular so I gave it try and started simple. The goal was to provision a VM, compiling and installing PostgreSQL and then connecting to the instance. There is also a fully managed PostgreSQL service but I wanted to do it on my own just to get a feeling about the command line tools.…
This blog refers to an older version of EDB’s Postgres on Kubernetes offering that is no longer available. The last blogs in the series are already some days old: Setting up MiniShift, Deploying EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, Customizing PostgreSQL parameters in EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, Scaling the EDB containers in MiniShift/OpenShift, EDB Failover Manager in EDB containers in Minishift/OpenShift and…
