Vacuum and autovacuum I started the second day of PGConf.EU with a session about vacuum and autovacuum, presented by Teresa Lopes.After a short introduction to how MVCC works, she presented the different elements related to autovacuum:What are the different phases of autovacuum? What can trigger autovacuum? Which parameters can influence autovacuum? All these points were explained in a simple and…
Welcome to Valencia! This year, the European PostgreSQL conference, PGConf.EU, takes place at the Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, Spain. I am lucky to be able to attend it with some colleagues from dbi services. Let’s see what’s going on there… I started the first day with a quick tour of the both of the different conference sponsors. I then…
This week, I’m in London attending the SQLBits 2025 conference.Since joining dbi services as a consultant, this is my second time taking part in the event. The last time was in 2022, but I attended remotely due to the uncertainties surrounding international travel at the time, as COVID-19 was still a concern.You can actually find the blog post I wrote…
I already did some talks at conferences and I had already the honor to select talks for a conference. During this talk selection I found some excellent examples on how to do to a proposal, but unfortunately also some examples that could be improved. Also my own learnings from proposals will run into this post, because I know, it’s not…
It was the first time that I assist to an IT conference, and I want first to say a warm thank to dbi services for this great opportunity. DevOps Barcelona is an annual event that purpose multiple conferences on different subjects around the marvelous word of DevOps. After received our welcome gifts and a coffee, lets start our two days…
Last week, the biggest European PostgreSQL event of the year took place in Berlin (2022.pgconf.eu). This event is an excellent opportunity to meet developers from the PostgreSQL community and to attend high profile tech presentations. Tuesday evening we started with the traditional “Schweizer Abend” Dinner with the Swiss community. We had a special guest at our table with Frits Hoogland…
Introduction I’m not that excited with all these events arround Oracle technologies (and beyond) but it’s always a good place to learn new things, and maybe the most important, discover new ways of thinking. And regarding this point, I was not disappointed. Franck Pachot: serverless and distributed database Franck talked about scaling out, it means avoid monoliths. Most of the…
Introduction : Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) simplifies the configuration and management of disk devices by eliminating the need to rebind disk devices used with Oracle ASM each time the system is restarted. Oracle ASM Filter Driver (Oracle ASMFD) is a kernel module that resides in the I/O path of the Oracle ASM disks. Oracle ASM uses the filter…
