07 October 2019
The PostgreSQL® Global Development Group (PGDG) has released version 12 of the popular free PostgreSQL® database. As our article for Beta 4 has already indicated, a number of new features, improvements and optimizations have been incorporated into the release. These include among others: Optimized disk space utilization and speed for btree indexes btree-Indexes, the default […]
12 September 2019
Yesterday, the fourth beta of the upcoming PostgreSQL®-major version 12 was released. Compared to its predecessor PostgreSQL® 11, there are many new features: Performance improvements for indexes: btree indexes now manage space more efficiently. The REINDEX command now also supports CONCURRENTLY, which was previously only possible with new indexes. WITH queries are now embedded in […]
12 December 2018
This week version 1.3 of our PostgreSQL® appliance Elephant Shed was released. The highlight of the new version is support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7. As is already the case for Debian, the appliance heavily relies on the postgresql-common infrastructure which was previously ported to RPM. The well-known PostgreSQL® RPM packages […]
18 October 2018
Today PostgreSQL® version 11 was released. The new release brings improvements in many areas. Since version 9.6 query plans can be executed on multiple CPU cores in parallel, this is now supported for other plan types, especially the creation of B-tree indexes. Sequential scans and UNION queries have also been improved. Brand new is the […]
20 October 2017
The credativ PostgreSQL® Appliance is now available for download as a completely free Open Source solution. The new appliance called ‘Elephant Shed PostgreSQL® Appliance‘ offers a tremendous ease of use for enterprise PostgreSQL® operations. The long-term maintenance of the appliance will be handled by the PostgreSQL® experts of credativ. Prepared images for the major cloud […]