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Building a PostgreSQL EC2 AMI for testing the latest commits

Testing the latest features or bug fixes in PostgreSQL can easily be done by pulling the latest commits from the git repository and compile PostgreSQL from source code. I am doing that frequently on my local sandbox VM but this(…)

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 FreeBSD, installation from packages

In the last two posts we installed FreeBSD, configured networking, updated the system, installed bash and had a quick look at kernel parameters. In this post we'll install PostgreSQL from packages. Of course you(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration

In the last post we installed FreeBSD, configured the keyboard, time zone and the first network interface, which gets it's IP address via DHCP. In this post we'll look at how we can configure the second interface,(…)

SUSE Manager 4.1 – installation

What if you need absolute control over maintenance and package deployment or if you need to keep them up to date or if you need to automate the software management and the system provisioning with a high level of security,(…)

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(…)

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(…)

Instant PostgreSQL Cloning with SUSE and Btrfs

What if you could clone a PostgreSQL database instantly without affecting the original source database, without impacting performance, without any external tool but using your linux Btrfs storage layer. This is what I will demonstrate in the following blogpost.

Starting with PostgreSQL

In this Post you will learn how I met PostgreSQL and started to learn. If you are planning PostgreSQL as your database but don’t know where to start, this blog may help you. My background I have used MySQL database(…)