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 which is called EDB Replication Server. As soon as you have one subscription from EnterpriseDB this tool is included and can be used to…
We already have some posts on how you can use EDB BART to backup and restore your PostgreSQL instances from one central server (EnterpriseDB Backup and Recovery Tool (BART), getting started with postgres plus advanced server (2) – setting up a backup and recovery server). The current version you can download from the EnterpriseDB website is 1.1 but version 2.0…
Disclaimer: This will not be a technical post at all. The goal is to provide a short overview of what we did in 2016 and what we plan to do in 2017 when it comes to our Open Infrastructure division. We’ll start with a few figures then look at the events we did and some of the projects we completed…
By Mouhamadou Diaw Many tools are proposed for backup and recovery operation of a PostgreSQL database. EnterpriseDB has developed a product named BART (Backup and Recovery Tool). Use of this product needs a subscription but you can download a trial version for test purpose. In this blog we are using BART with PostgreSQL 9.6.1. BART allows backing up over the…
By Mouhamadou Diaw As you may know PostgreSQL 9.6 was released a few months ago. And EnterpriseDB (EDB) offers a package installer for installing the community version. This EDB package can be downloaded here. In this blog we are going to install PostgreSQL using edb installer. The installation is done using a graphical tool. A user with root privileges must…
Yesterday EnterpriseDB released the beta of the next version of Postgres Advanced Server. You can sign up for the beta program here and download the software here. As usual this release includes all the features of the community release of PostgreSQL (version 9.6) plus the EDB additions such as Oracle compatibility. The release notes are here.
In the last post we looked at how you can patch a Postgres Plus Advanced server. Wouldn’t it be nice, in a standby configuration, to patch the standby first without touching the master, then do a controlled switchover and finally patch the old master? In case this is a configuration with EDB Failover Manager the only downtime which would happen…
As with any other software there comes the time when you need to patch your Postgres Plus Advanced Server instances. Is that different from patching Community PostgreSQL? Yes and no 🙂 The difference is that you need a subscription to get access to the EDB Customer Portal for being able to download the patch. This is pretty much the same…
In the last post we upgraded EDB EFM from version 2.0 to 2.1. In this post we’ll look at the new features. Actually we’ll look only at two of the new features in this post: Failover Manager now simplifies cluster startup with the auto.allow.hosts property efm promote now includes a -switchover option; the -switchover option instructs Failover Manager to perform…
Some days ago EnterpriseDB released a new version of its EDB Failover Manager which brings one feature that really sounds great: “Controlled switchover and switchback for easier maintenance and disaster recovery tests”. This is exactly what you want when you are used to operate Oracle DataGuard. Switching back and forward as you like without caring much about the old master.…
Are you interested in what PostgreSQL can do for you? You can join us at the following events in June: We will be doing the “Transform your database tour” together with EnterpriseDB in Zurich and Geneva (German and French/English): More details here. And we’ll be at the Swiss PGDAY in Rapperswil (German speaking, mostly): There will be plenty of time…
In the last posts ( Maintenance scenarios with EDB Failover Manager (1) – Standby node , Maintenance scenarios with EDB Failover Manager (2) – Primary node ) we looked at how to perform maintenance operations on the master as well as on the standby node in a failover cluster managed by EDB Failober Manager. What is still open is how…
