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 […]
15 April 2019
In this article we will look at the highly available operation of PostgreSQL® in a Kubernetes environment. A topic that is certainly of particular interest to many of our PostgreSQL® users. Together with our partner company MayaData, we will demonstrate below the application possibilities and advantages of the extremely powerful open source project – OpenEBS. […]
27 January 2019
Patroni is a PostgreSQL high availability solution with a focus on containers and Kubernetes. Until recently, the available Debian packages had to be configured manually and did not integrate well with the rest of the distribution. For the upcoming Debian 10 “Buster” release, the Patroni packages have been integrated into Debian’s standard PostgreSQL framework by […]
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 […]