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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 The downside with installing from packages on FreeBSD is, that you can only run one version of PostgreSQL. If you want to run more than one, you need to install from source code, and this is the topic…
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 can also install PostgreSQL from source code, but this will be the topic for the next post.
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, which gets a static IP address in the host only network. Once we’ve done that, we’ll update the system to the latest packages, have a look at the file system layout and kernel parameters so we can later…
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 Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) and it is well known for having very few security issues and it is running a wide range of websites today. In addition, it is the foundation of storage appliances such as Isilon. Running…
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 that, just thoughts and ideas — Daniel Westermann (@westermanndanie) January 27, 2021 While this might sound unusual, this actually was under consideration by one of our customers. Each of their customers usually gets a dedicated database and is free…
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 – SQL functions, sets, udts and polymorphic types ) we had a look at SQL functions and how you can use them to return data for everything that is a SQL statement. If you can do it in SQL, you should do…
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 functions, how we can pass parameters to functions, how to name parameters for better readability, how to return a result, and how we can use functions in plain SQL statements. In this post we’ll go a step further…
Over the last years I’ve seen many different applications running against PostgreSQL. The use cases vary from simple applications, which only use basic data types and a few tables and views, to complex applications with custom types, more specific data types like jsonb or range types, that use hundreds of schemas/tables/views/materialized views etc. Surprisingly only a few of them make use of functions and procedures in PostgreSQL. I’ve always told people to process the data…
PostgreSQL comes with build-in Full Text Search and you can do quite amazing stuff with it. A question that popped up during one of the last PostgreSQL for developers workshop was: How can I deal with German “Umlaute” such as “ä”, “ö” and “ü” in such a way, that I can search for e.g. “Schnösel” and the result will give me “Schnösel” as well as “Schnoesel”? One way to deal with that would be to…
The discussions how and why TDE (Transparent data encryption) should be implemented in PostgreSQL goes back several years. You can have a look at these two more recent threads to get an idea on how much discussion happened around that feature: [Proposal] Table-level Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) and Key Management Service (KMS) Re: Internal key management system Finally an essentials part for that infrastructure was committed and I am sure, many people have waited for…
