Top Open Source Tools for PostgreSQL Migrations
Database migration is the process of migrating data from one or more source databases to one or more target databases by using a service or tool. There are different types of migrations. You can migrate...
An Overview of PostgreSQL 13 libpq sslpassword Connection Parameters
PostgreSQL since long has supported SSL connections and also certificate-based authentication mechanisms. Although nothing in this regard seems to be new for the PostgreSQL world. However, a small nagging issue for client connection (client-certificates based...
Using Barman for PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery
There must be many powerful tools available as a backup and restore option for PostgreSQL in general; Barman, PgBackRest, BART are to name a few in this context. What caught our attention was that Barman...
An Overview of PostgreSQL Query Caching & Load Balancing
The topic of caching appeared in PostgreSQL as far back as 22 years ago, and at that time the focus was on database reliability. Fast forward to 2020, the disk platters are hidden even deeper...
How to Upgrade PostgreSQL 11 to PostgreSQL 12 with Zero Downtime
The most intuitive database upgrade way that you can think of is to generate a replica in a new version and perform a failover of the application into it, and actually it works perfectly in...
Comparing load balancers for PostgreSQL
Load balancing increases system performance, especially from the application standpoint, allowing several computers to serve the same data. It works such that the load is being distributed among client queries to replica nodes aside from...
Scaling PostgreSQL Using Connection Poolers & Load Balancers
Scalability is the property of a system to handle a growing amount of demands by adding resources. The reasons for this amount of demands could be temporary, for example, if you are launching a discount...
Understanding the HAProxy Statistics for MySQL & PostgreSQL
Having a Load Balancer is always a good option to improve your database environment. It can help you on redirect applications to available database nodes, distribute the traffic across multiple servers to improve performance, or...
How to Achieve PostgreSQL High Availability with pgBouncer
In the database world, there are many common concepts like High Availability, Failover, and Connection pooling. All of them are useful things to implement on any system, and even a must in some cases. A...
Driving Performance for PostgreSQL with HAProxy
Database performance is a very important concern when maintaining your database cluster, especially as it grows over the time. This is especially true if your application started out with low traffic going then growting to...
Building a Highly Available Database for Moodle Using PostgreSQL
Impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, a lot of SMBs/SMEs are transitioning to online platforms. Face-to-face or physical classes are also affected by this pandemic and a lot of schools and universities are also transitioning to...
An Overview of Trusted Extensions in PostgreSQL 13
In my previous blog, we explored new capabilities of Logical replication with Partition tables in PostgreSQL 13. Needless to say that there are multitude of such features in the mentioned release which will soon enhance...