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Simplifying PostgreSQL Management: A Guide to Install and Use pgcli

Managing databases is a crucial aspect for a DBA, and PostgreSQL is a powerful open-source relational database management system that is widely used. To interact with a PostgreSQL database, DBA and developers often rely on command-line tools. The default tool(…)

Uyuni, an open-source configuration and infrastructure management solution for software-defined infrastructure (1) – The server

Most of you probably heard of Red Hat Satellite, a product which is used to manage Linux infrastructures. Maybe you also heard about SUSE Manager, which does more or less the same(…)

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(…)

Meson vs. make: PostgreSQL build and test times

In the last post we’ve looked into how you can build PostgreSQL with Meson instead of the traditional way using configure/make. The reason for this was a thread(…)

Building PostgreSQL with Meson

Last year, around this time, there started a thread on hackers which was about building PostgreSQL with meson. I didn’t know anything about Meson at this time, and don’t know much more(…)

PostgreSQL from packages on NetBSD

The last flavor of BSD we’ll look at is NetBSD. We already had FreeBSD (here and here) and OpenBSD (here and(…)

PostgreSQL from source on OpenBSD

In the last post we’ve seen that it is quite easy to get started with PostgreSQL on OpenBSD when you install from the provided packages. The downside of this was, that not the latest version of(…)

PostgreSQL from packages on OpenBSD

Almost all of our customers run PostgreSQL on one of the distributions of Linux, either installed from packages or from source code. But there is not only Linux, there a various flavors of BSD you can(…)

PostgreSQL Cluster using repmgr

With this blog I describe the installation of a PostgreSQL Cluster using repmgr instead of Patroni. Repmgr was originally developed by 2ndQuadrant which is now part of EDB and EDB decided for the 2ndQuadrant tools for the future, barman as(…)

Major PostgreSQL version upgrade in a Patroni cluster

Introduction One of my customer recently asked me to upgrade its PostgreSQL instance from version 9.6 to version 14.3. The infrastructure is composed of 4 servers : – DB02-04 – Ubuntu 20.04 – supporting PostgreSQL, Patroni, HAProxy and etcd–(…)