PostgreSQL

[Data]nymizer – Data anonymizer for PostgreSQL

Often there is the requirement to populate a test or development database with data from production, but this comes with a risk: Do you really want, that developers or testers have access to sensitive data? In a lot of companies(…)

8000 PostgreSQL clusters on one host?

Coming back to the last post: 8000 databases in one PostgreSQL cluster?. As we've seen this is doable but comes with a lot of pain points. Another solution for this kind of requirement would be to host(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, installation from source code

This is the next post in this little series about PostgreSQL on FreeBSD. You can find the previous one here: PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, updating & configuration(…)

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,(…)

PostgreSQL on FreeBSD, getting started

Although we are running PostgreSQL mostly on Linux distributions, you can install an run PostgreSQL on a lot of other operating systems. On of them is FreeBSD. FreeBSD is one of those Unixes that derived from the(…)

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(…)

8000 databases in one PostgreSQL cluster?

A while ago I posted this tweet on Twitter: #Postgresql friends: 8000 databases. One cluster, 8000 clusters, Kubernetes,, what would be your choice? Let's assume 10gb per database. I know backup/restore, inodes etc, no discussions about(…)

An introduction into server side programming in PostgreSQL – 3 – PL/pgSQL, procedures

In the first to posts in this series (An introduction into server side programming in PostgreSQL – 1 – SQL functions, basics , An introduction into server side programming in PostgreSQL – 2 –(…)

An introduction into server side programming in PostgreSQL – 2 – SQL functions, sets, udts and polymorphic types

This is part two of the little series about server side programming in PostgreSQL. In the last post we had a look at the basics when it comes to SQL functions. We learned how to write those(…)