Database Administration & Monitoring

PostgreSQL 16: Further reducing tasks that require superuser

In a previous post we’ve seen that vacuum and analyze operations can be granted to users which are not superuser starting with PostgreSQL 16. Work is still in(…)

New cast testing functions for PostgreSQL 16

As the development of PostgreSQL moves on, more and more new features get committed. A recently commit patch added two new functions, which can be used to validate if a cast will work and what error message would be returned(…)

Improve your development experience in PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL by using plpgsql_check

In the last post we’ve highlighted some tips when developing functions and/or procedures in PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL. Especially the Compile-Time and Run-Time checks can save you a lot of work and give you important hints while developing(…)

Some tips when developing in PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL

When you develop functions or procedures in PostgreSQL’s PL/pgSQL there are some points to consider, which make your life easier. This post is not about control structures, nor(…)

PostgreSQL 16: More flexibility for vacuum and analyze

Update 14-Dec-2022: Please see this post, the content here is not anymore up to date. While PostgreSQL 15.1 was released some weeks ago PostgreSQL 16 is already under active development. Two(…)

Azure SQL Managed Instance link feature overview

In one of my last blog-posts I spoke about Striim which is a data replication platform that can be used for migrations but also for offloaded reporting or even real-time analytics.A new Azure feature, currently on preview, named Link(…)

An introduction to OMrun – 2 – Working with parameters

In the last post we compared the list of databases in the same PostgreSQL cluster using OMrun. The setup for this was pretty simple: We’ve defined the environment using the PostgreSQL Data Adapter and created the(…)

An introduction to OMrun – 1 – A simple data comparison with the PostgreSQL Adapter

With the integration of OMIS into dbi services we also got a new product: OMrun. OMrun is all about data, especially comparing, validating and anonymizing data from various sources against various targets.

dbachecks: how to add your own checks

As a DBA I used more and more the dbachecks at customer place to validate environments. It became part of our DBA toolkit at the same place than its famous brother the dbatools.My colleague Steven Naudet did a(…)

Recreate a Patroni replica using pgBackRest

In my last blog we had a look on how to bootstrap a complete Patroni Cluster from pgBackRest. But there is also the possibility to recreate only one Patroni node using pgBackRest. In this blog we(…)