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.
Sometimes it is required that you can react on state changes of your network interfaces. Maybe you want to get notified by mail or you want to execute a script that does something in case an event is trapped. As usual I will be using CentOS 7 for this little demonstration but as most distributions use systemd and NetworkManager nowadays…
A question that pops up from time to time is: When we create a table or an index in PostgreSQL are the files on disk created immediately or is this something that happens when the first row is inserted? The question mostly is coming from Oracle DBAs because in Oracle you can have deferred segment creation. In PostgreSQL there is…
A lot of companies use Active Directory to manage their users and groups. What most of this companies also want to do is to manage their database users and groups in Active Directory. PostgreSQL comes with ldap/kerberos authentication by default but does not provide anything that helps with managing users and groups in an external directory. And even for the…
This is the second follow up which covers this question: When you hash partition a table in PostgreSQL 11 where do null values for the partitioned column go to? Lets go… In the demo I used this little table: postgres=# select version(); version —————————————————————————————————————————– PostgreSQL 11beta1 on x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by gcc (GCC) 4.8.5 20150623 (Red Hat 4.8.5-28), 64-bi (1 row)…
As always, this time during my talk about the PostgreSQL 11 new features in Amsterdam, there have been question I could not immediately answer. The first one was this: Suppose we add a column with a default value in PostgreSQL 11, what happens when we change that default afterwards? Does the table get rewritten? Do we have more than on…
PostgreSQL conferences are always cool and this time it was in Amsterdam: PGDay Amsterdam. Beside that meeting all the great people was fun again the location was really outstanding: The TOBACCO Theater: Some impressions: Here you can see Devrim preparing the opening of the event with the introduction session: … and then it happened: We finally started: Jan kicked of…
There is new project, currently in beta, which aims to bring active session history (and probably more) to PostgreSQL: pgSentinel. Because PostgreSQL is highly extensible such projects are possible and usually are coming as an extension. pgSentinel is no exception to that so lets see how it can be installed. When you want to try the beta for your own,…
Roles have been existing on many RDBMS for a long time by now. Starting from version 8.0, this functionality is finally there for MySQL. The most important advantage is to define only once a role that includes a “set of permissions”, then assign it to each user, avoiding wasting time declaring them individually. In MySQL, a role can be created…
Beginning of this month EnterpriseDB announced a new version of its Failover Manager. Version 2.1 introduced controlled switchover operations, version 3.0 brought support for PostgreSQL 10 and now: What’s new in version 3.1? It might seem this is just a bugfix release but there is more and especially one enhancement I’ve waited for a long time. As you might remember:…
Today at the SOUG Day I did some little demos and one of them was about creating typed tables. In the demo the two tables did not contain any rows and one of the questions was: When these tables contain a million of rows would adding a column be instant as well? Lets do a quick test. Same setup as…
Did you know that you can create domains in PostgreSQL? No, nothing to worry about. We’ll take Frank’s leave for a new opportunity as a chance to introduce the concept of domains. @Franck: Yes, although we all fully understand your decision and the reasons to move on to a new challenge, this post is dedicated to you and you need…
As you might already know PostgreSQL 11 will bring support for just-in-time compilation. When you want to compile PostgreSQL 11 with jit support on RedHat/CentOS 7 this requires a little hack (more on the reason below). In this post we’ll look at how you can do it at least for testing. For production it is of course not recommended as…
