05 May 2022
Moodle is a popular Open Source online learning platform. Especially since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic the importance of Moodle for schools and universities has further increased. In some states in Germany all schools had to switch to Moodle and other platforms like BigBlueButton in the course of a few days. This leads to […]
08 March 2022
SQLreduce: Reduce verbose SQL queries to minimal examples Developers often face very large SQL queries that raise some errors. SQLreduce is a tool to reduce that complexity to a minimal query. SQLsmith generates random SQL queries SQLsmith is a tool that generates random SQL queries and runs them against a PostgreSQL server (and other DBMS […]
17 November 2021
Congratulations to the Debian Community The Debian Project just released version 11 (aka “bullseye”) of their free operating system. In total, over 6,208 contributors worked on this release and were indispensable in making this launch happen. We would like to thank everyone involved for their combined efforts, hard work, and many hours pent in recent […]
14 January 2020
Patroni is a clustering solution for PostgreSQL® that is getting more and more popular in the cloud and Kubernetes sector due to its operator pattern and integration with Etcd or Consul. Some time ago we wrote a blog post about the integration of Patroni into Debian. Recently, the vip-manager project which is closely related to […]
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 […]