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 […]
05 July 2018
The second beta release of PostgreSQL 11 (which is now feature frozen) has been released recently. Time to look at some of the improvements that credativ has contributed in the area of checksums and backups. Checksum verification during base backups Since version 9.3 it is possible to enable checksums for the underlying storage of tables […]
26 February 2018
The credativ PostgreSQL® Competence Center has released a project roadmap for the PostgreSQL® Appliance Elephant Shed. Elephant Shed is a freely available PostgreSQL® solution developed by credativ, which combines management, monitoring and administration into one system. The project roadmap for 2018 includes following points: Q2 2018: Support for Ubuntu 18.04 Q3 2018: Support for CentOS […]
14 February 2018
Elephant Shed is now available as a Vagrant box. This makes it very easy to test and try out the PostgreSQL® appliance. Vagrant is an Open Source tool for creating portable virtual software environments. By being fully script controlled Vagrant makes it easy to generate virtual machines, in which a software component is installed for […]