postgresql

In which schema do temporary tables go in PostgreSQL?

As you might know, you can create temporary tables, views and sequences in PostgreSQL. Temporary means, that the temporary table, view or sequence will be dropped when you either end your session or you transaction. When the drop will happen(…)

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(…)

How to upgrade Patroni

It's been a while since I wrote the blog post about PostgreSQL 13 and Patroni 2.0. On this blog I received a comment, if it's possible to explain, how to upgrade from Patroni 1.6 to 2.

How to setup a Consul Cluster on RHEL 8, Rocky Linux 8, AlmaLinux 8 part 2

Within the first part I have described the setup of Consul as replacement for ETCD. Here now the setup ob keepalived, haproxy and patroni. The needed packages I have installed within the first part, so let’s start with the(…)

How to setup a Consul Cluster on RHEL 8, Rocky Linux 8, AlmaLinux 8 part 1

This blog describes the setup of a Consul Cluster on RHEL 8 and clones, it will be the base for a Patroni HA setup using RPM Packages from postgresql.org. Many Patroni setups are using ETCD, but ETCD is not(…)

Updating Password in PostgreSQL from md5 to scram-sha-256

Many installations have a history of many major PostgreSQL releases. With PostgreSQL 10 comes scram-sha-256 for hashing passwords, by installing from packages scram-sha-256 is the default setting for new installations since PostgreSQL 13. With this small blog I will(…)

PostgreSQL on ARM using Odroid N2/N2+

For this installation i’m using a Hardkernel Odroid N2/N2+ which are ARM S922X, means ARM Big Little Architecture with Quad-Core-ARM-Cortex-A73-CPU-Cluster and a Dual-Core-Cortex-A53-Cluster and a Mali-G52-GPU. These device is normaly a good device as Mediaplayer using Coreelec based on(…)

PostgreSQL Flexible Server on Azure, Status

This Blog is about the actual status of the development on Microsoft’s side for the Azure Flexible Server for PostgreSQL. The Flexible Server is announced “GA Ready” at November 30st, after shiftig the GA Raeady date several times. But(…)

PostgreSQL Flexible Server on Azure, scram-sha-256 workaround

Microsofts old Single Server for PostgreSQL on Azure offers password encryption md5 only, normaly IT Governance responsible people getting nervous by that. On the new Flexible Server for PostgreSQL on AZure md5 is still the default setting, but a(…)

Setup pgpass for replication

This script provides functionality to setup passwordless authentication in PostgreSQL for defined Server Names. This is very helpful by using replication via repmgr and is not Linux Distribution specific, it was used till now with SLES 12, SLES 15(…)