PostgreSQL

Backup and Restore PostgreSQL with PgBackRest II

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a precedent blog I shown a basic utilization of PgBackRest which is a tool to backup and restore PostgreSQL databases. In this blog I am going to talk some useful(…)

Backup and Restore PostgreSQL with PgBackRest I

By Mouhamadou Diaw Many tools can be used to backup PostgreSQL databases. In this blog I will talk about PgBackRest which is a simple tool that can be used to backup and restore a PostgreSQL database. Full,(…)

How we build our customized PostgreSQL Docker image

Docker becomes more and more popular these days and a lot of companies start to really use it. At one project we decided to build our own customized Docker image instead of using the official PostgreSQL one.

Does pg_upgrade in check mode raises a failure when the old cluster is running?

Today I had the pleasure to have Bruce Momjian in my session about PostgreSQL Upgrade Best Practices at the IT Tage 2017 in Frankfurt. While browsing through the various options you(…)

Are statistics immediately available after creating a table or an index in PostgreSQL?

While giving the last PostgreSQL DBA Essentials workshop this question came up: When we create a table or an index: are the statistics available automatically? To be more precise: When we create and load a table in(…)

DBVISIT from Oracle to Postgres

As I regularly work on Oracle and PostgreSQL, I decided to test the replication from Oracle to PostgreSQL using the Dbvisit Replicate tool. Dbivisit Replicate does not use Oracle logminer ot triggers but its own mining processes to(…)

Create index CONCURRENTLY in PostgreSQL

In PostgreSQL when you create an index on a table, sessions that want to write to the table must wait until the index build completed by default. There is a way around that, though, and in this post we'll look(…)

Is it an index, a table or what?

A recent tweet from Kevin Closson outlined that in PostgreSQL it might be confusing if something is an index or table. Why is it like that? Lets have a look and start be re-building the example from(…)

A response to: What makes a community?

A recent tweet of mine resulted in Martin Widlake to write a really great blog post about What makes a community. Please read it before you continue to read this. There was another response(…)

Can I do it with PostgreSQL? – 18 – Instead of triggers on views

It has been quite a while since the last post in this series but today comes the next one. Being at a customer this morning this question popped up: Can we have instead of triggers on a view in PostgreSQL(…)