PostgreSQL

PostgreSQL: When wal_level to logical

By Mouhamadou Diaw wal_level determines the quantity of information written to the WAL. With PostgreSQL 11 the parameter wal_level can have 3 values: -minimal : only information needed to recover from a crash or an immediate shutdown -replica(…)

PostgreSQL 12, pg_stat_statements_reset for userid, queryid and dbid

PostgreSQL 12 will give you more control on resetting statistics gathered by pg_stat_statements. When you check the documentation for PostgreSQL 11 (as linked in the previous sentence) you will see that the function has the following(…)

Using Ansible to bring up a three node Patroni cluster in minutes

Automation is key today, nobody wants to do the same tasks over and over and again. Cloud without automation is not even possible. There are several tools around that help with automation and one of the most popular is(…)

EDB Failover Manager 3.3 With Virtual Ip Address

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog , I talked about installing and configuring Edb Failover Manager with PostgreSQL. The configuration of a Virtual Ip Address was not discussed in this previous article.In this blog(…)

PAM Authentication With PostgreSQL

By Mouhamadou Diaw PostgreSQl supports many authentication methods. The PAM authentication method operates similarly to password except that it uses PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) as the authentication mechanism. The user must exist in the database before PAM can be used(…)

PostgreSQL : Get my database server name

By Mouhamadou Diaw I was looking for a build-in function to get the hostname of the server hosting my PostgreSQL cluster. But seems that there is no build-in function. Looking in the extensions, I find the extension hostname which(…)

PostgreSQL 12: csv output format for psql

Getting data out of PostgreSQL in csv format is not a big issue. Using copy you can do that easily. PostgreSQL 12 will enhance psql so that you can directly return csv formatted output from a(…)

PostgreSQL 12: log_statement_sample_rate

A common way to identify long running queries in PostgreSQL is to set log_min_duration_statement to a value that is known to cause troubles. In other words: If you know most of your statements usually execute in(…)

No more recovery.conf in PostgreSQL 12

Traditionally everything which is related to recovery in PostgreSQL goes to recovery.conf. This is not only true for recovery settings but also for turning an instance into a replica which follows a master. Some days ago(…)

EDB BART 2.2, parallel full backups without using pg_basebackup

Some days ago EnterpriseDB released the latest version of its backup and recovery tool for PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server, release notes here. The main new features, at least for me, are backups using multiple(…)