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PostgreSQL on Cygwin

By Franck Pachot . I run my laptop with Windows 10 for office programs, and VirtualBox machines with Linux for the big stuff (Oracle databases). I have also Cygwin installed on Windows for GNU programs. I wanted to quickly install(…)

History of Upgrading 9 Tb PostgreSQL database

Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog I am going share a history of PostgreSQL migration and upgrade from 9.2 to 9.6. Let me first explain the context We have a PostgreSQL environment with following characteristics. Note that real database name,(…)

Replicating from Oracle to PostgreSQL with EDB Replication Server – 1 – A simple replication setup

When you want to offload reporting stuff from Oracle to PostgreSQL there are several solutions you can go for. There most widely known probably are Oracle GoldenGate and SharePlex. EnterpriseDB has its own solution for this(…)

Migrating from oracle to postgresql with ora2pg

By Mouhamadou Diaw PostgreSQL is one of the most used Rdbms. In this blog we are going to talk about migrating from oracle to postgresql using ora2pg. A previous blog about this topic can be found(…)

Can I do it with PostgreSQL? – 12 – dbca (database configuration assistant)

Short answer: No. Long answer: No. Every other possible answer: No. There is no such tool in PostgreSQL. In Oracle you can use the database configuration assistant to create your Oracle database. But this is not a must,(…)

Vertically scale your PostgreSQL infrastructure with pgpool – 3 – Adding another standby

In the first and second post in this series we did the basic pgpool setup including the watchdog configuration and then did a simple setup for automatically failover from a PostgreSQL master instance in case it(…)

Temporal tables with PostgreSQL

By Mouhamadou Diaw In this blog we are going to talk about a nice extension in PostgreSQL: temporal_tables. This extension provides support for temporal tables. What is a temporal table? Just a table that tracks the period(…)

From PostgreSQL 9.1.8 to PostgreSQL 9.5.5 including a standby database with minimal downtime

As you might know PostgreSQL 9.1 is out of support since last September. But, no surprise, there are still plenty of PostgreSQL 9.1 instances out there which need to be upgraded to a supported release. At one(…)

From MySQL (Oracle) to Postgres using the EDB Migration Toolkit

Why should you migrate? If your current MySQL database does not offer some needed functionnalities according to your business as: – more security – more high availibilty options (hot standby) – Strong Data Warehouse capabilities(…)

Running PostgreSQL on ZFS on Linux

ZFS for Solaris is around for several years now (since 2015). But there is also a project called OpenZFS which makes ZFS available on other operating systems. For Linux the announcement(…)