Infrastructure at your Service
By Franck Pachot . I love databases and, rather than trying to compare and rank them, I like to understand their difference. Sometimes, you make a mistake and encounter an error. Let’s take the following example: create table DEMO (n int); begin transaction; insert into DEMO values (0); select n “after insert” from DEMO; update DEMO set n=1/n; select n “after error” from DEMO; commit; select n “after commit” from DEMO; The “begin transaction” is…
In my last post, I explained, how to setup a HA Postgres Cluster using EDB Postgres Advanced Server and Failover Manager. As a next step, we want to install the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager to monitor what we setup before.
Some time ago I had a customer looking for a two node PostgreSQL Master/Replica solution. As we need Oracle compatibility in a later step, we decided to go with the EnterpriseDB tools. This article should give you an introduction on how to setup the environment.
Usually, when you need to install a PostgreSQL extension you do this as superuser (or at least I am doing it like this). The downside of that is, of course, that a super user must be available once a new extension is required or that all the extensions are installed by default (e.g. in template1). Recently the question popped up internally if you can install extensions without being super user. The answer is: yes and…
Because of its implementation of MVCC PostgreSQL needs a way to cleanup old/dead rows and this is the responsibility of vacuum. Up to PostgreSQL 12 this is done table per table and index per index. There are a lot of parameters to fine tune auto vacuum but none of those allowed vacuum to run in parallel against a relation. The only option you had to allow auto vacuum to do more work in parallel was…
In the last post I described how you can create your own PostgreSQL image in Nutanix Era. In Nutanix wording this is a “Software profile”. This profile can now be used to deploy PostgreSQL VMs with just a few clicks or by using the API. In this post we’ll look at how this can be done and if it is really as easy as Nutanix promises. We’ll be doing it by using the graphical console…
Some days ago we had a very good training on Nutanix. Nutanix is a Hyper-converged infrastructure and that means that all is software driven and the system can be deployed on many hardware configurations. I will not go into the details of the system itself but rather look at one component/module which is called Era. Era promises to simplify database deployments by providing a clean and simple user interface (and an API) that provides deployment…
At a customer we implemented the EDB Postgres Enterprise Manager. As they run multiple PostgreSQL cluster on one server, they wanted, for sure, to monitor all the cluster using PEM. This blog should give you a short guidance on how to add databases to PEM.
I’ve done quite some real time logical replication projects in the past, either using Oracle Golden Gate or EDB replication server. Build in logical replication in PostgreSQL (which is available since PostgreSQL 10) can be used as well when both, the source and the target are PostgreSQL instances. While being at the DOAG conference and exhibition 2019 I got in contact with people from DBPLUS and they provide a product which is called “Data Replicator”….
Constraints are in important concept in every realtional database system and they guarantee the correctness of your data. While constraints are essentials there are situations when it is required to disable or drop them temporarily. The reason could be performance related because it is faster to validate the constraints at once after a data load. The reason could also be, that you need to load data and you do not know if the data is…
