PostgreSQL

AWS: PostgreSQL on Graviton2 with newer GCC

By Franck Pachot . In the previous post I have run PostgreSQL on AWS m6gd.2xlarge (ARM Graviton2 processor). I didn’t precise the compilation option and this post will give more details following this feedback:(…)

AWS: PostgreSQL on Graviton2

By Franck Pachot . On the AWS free tier, you can run a t2.micro instance for 750 hours per month during the first 12 month after sign-up date. And currently, until June 2021, you can also run a(…)

PostgreSQL on Linux: what is cached?

By Franck Pachot . In a recent tweet I wanted to highlight the importance of knowing what you measure with pgbench, because looking at “Transactions per second” without knowing if you are in shared buffer cache hits, or filesystem(…)

Microsoft Flexible Server for PostgreSQL

This Blog is about some findings on Microsoft’s new Flexible Server offering for PostgreSQL which is in Customer Preview at the moment. Findings about the infrastructure The Microsoft Flexible Server for PostgreSQL is using Ubuntu as OS infrastructure, I think(…)

PostgreSQL High Availability: Patroni, Ectd , HAProxy , Keepalived

By Mouhamadou Diaw Patroni is one the most famous tool that can be used to setup a high avalaibilty for PostgreSQL. In this blog I am describing a test I did. Below the environment we will(…)

Google Cloud SQL Insights: ASH, plans and statement tagging

By Franck Pachot . Looking at database performance has always been necessary to optimize the response time or throughput, but when it comes to public cloud where you are charged by resource usage, performance tuning is critical for cost(…)

Recovery in the ☁ with Google Cloud SQL (PostgreSQL)

By Franck Pachot . In a previous post I started this series of “Recovery in the ☁” with the Oracle Autonomous database. My goal is to explain the recovery procedures, especially the Point-In-Time recovery procedures(…)

Control-M/EM Update jobs using Pgadmin tool

introduction Hi team, Today we will work on Control-M database,we already know how to update it using CLI and also using Control-M GUI,but today we will use a reall nice tool named PgAdmin. Its a GUI where you can(…)

PostgreSQL in AWS: clearing the doubts

By Franck Pachot . I’ve heard and read people saying that the PostgreSQL managed service is not the true open-source PostgreSQL from the community. This is wrong and I’m writing this post to clarify it. PostgreSQL on EC2(…)

What is a database backup (back to the basics)

By Franck Pachot . TL;DR: do not consider a dump (like PostgreSQL pg_dump or Oracle expdp) as a database backup do not consider that your backup is successful if you didn’t test recovery databases provide physical database backups, easy(…)