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Google Cloud Spanner – no decimal numeric data types

By Franck Pachot . Google Cloud Spanner is a distributed relational database focused on scalability without compromising consistency and integrity. It is available only as a managed service in Google Cloud. Basically, the idea is to keep the scalability advantages(…)

Drilling down the pgSentinel Active Session History

By Franck Pachot . In pgSentinel: the sampling approach for PostgreSQL I mentioned that one of the advantages of the ASH approach is the ability to drill down from an overview of the database activity,(…)

PGDay Amsterdam – follow up 2 – Where do null values go to in a hash partitioned table?

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...

Database Vault : Rules, Rule Sets and Command Rules

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog I talked about protecting data using Realms. With Database Vault we can also protect our database against some SQL statements. These statements can include SELECT, ALTER SYSTEM, database(…)

PGDay Amsterdam – follow up 1 – Adding columns with a default value and changing the default value right after

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(…)

What a great event – PGDay Amsterdam

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(…)

pgSentinel: the sampling approach for PostgreSQL

By Franck Pachot . Here is the first test I did with the beta of pgSentinel. This Active Session History sampling is a new approach to Postgres tuning. For people coming from Oracle, this is something(…)

Active session history in PostgreSQL: Say hello to pgSentinel

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(…)

Documentum xPlore: Failed to load content file + file system full

We had issues with our indexing server when launching batches of indexes to the queue, in the xPlore server. The indexing was taking so much time to index documents and almost all queue items fell down to the warning/error state.

Creating and Using a Parcel Repository for Cloudera Manager

This blog post describes how to create a hosted Cloudera repository and use it in your Cloudera Manager deployment. The first step is to install a web server, which will host RPM packages and repodata. The common way, is to(…)