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One of the probably lesser known PostgreSQL parameters is check_function_bodies. If you know Oracle, then you for sure faced “invalid objects” a lot. In PostgreSQL, by default, there is nothing like an invalid object. That implies that you can not create a function or procedure which references an object that does not yet exist. Lets assume you want to create…
I have recently been working on a customer project where I had been challenged adding a dbvisit standby database on an ODA X7-2M, named ODA03. The existing customer environment was composed of Oracle Standard 12.2 version database. The primary database, myDB, is running on server named srv02 and using a non-OMF configuration. On the ODA side we are working with…
Dbvisit standy is a disaster recovery solution that you will be able to use with Oracle standard edition. I have been working on a customer project where I had to setup a system having one primary and two standby databases. One of the standby database had to run with a gap of 24 hours. Knowing that flashback possibilities are very…
ODA light (ODA X7-2S, X7-2M, X8-2S, X8-2M) come with an internal derby database to manage ODA metadata. From time to time, there is a need to check or update some information within it, as for example when facing database deletion issue. I would like to strongly advise that updating manually the ODA repository should only be done after getting Oracle…
It is always a bit of a surprise that many people do not know peer authentication in PostgreSQL. You might ask why that is important as initdb creates a default pg_hba.conf which does not allow any connections from outside the PostgreSQL server. While that is true there is another important point to consider. Let’s assume you executed initdb without any…
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 the community. How will it be, to give my first presentation in front of so many people? The conference started…
One of the major advantages of PostgreSQL conferences when you compare it to other conferences is, that you can listen to talks where the actual developers are presenting their work. You have questions about a feature, you want to know more about this or that: Just catch one of the developers and start to talk. It is as easy as…
Quite some time ago I blogged about how you could build your customzized PostgreSQL container by using a Dockerfile and Docker build. In the meantime Red Hat replaced Docker in OpenShift and SUSE replaced Docker as well in CaaS. As a consequence there need to be other ways of building containers and one of them is buildah. You can use…
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. Switchover There are two possibilities to run a switchover, either in scheduled mode or immediately. 1. Scheduled Switchover postgres@patroni1:/home/postgres/ [PG1] patronictl switchover Master…
Since Oracle 11g files created by the database belong by default to the Linux group oinstall. Changing the default group after creating the central inventory is difficult. In this Blog I want to show how locally created archived redo can be in group dba instead of oinstall. One of my customers had the requirement to provide read-access on archived redo…
Oracle 19c has been released quite a while ago already and some customers already run it in Production. However, as it is the long term supported release, I thought I blog about some interesting information and features around 19c to encourage people to migrate to it. Download Oracle 19c: https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/downloads or https://edelivery.oracle.com (search e.g. for “Database Enterprise Edition”) Docker-Images: https://github.com/oracle/docker-images/tree/master/OracleDatabase…
In my previous article about Accelerated Database Recovery (ADR), I wrote mostly about the new Persistent Volume Store (PVS), how important it was important in the new SQL database engine recovery process and the potential impact it may have on the application workload. This time let’s talk a little bit more about ADR feature benefits we may get with instantaneous…
