High Availability in PostgreSQL

2022-08-24
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A standard High Availability system should be available 99.999% of the time – it can have 5 minutes and 15.6 seconds of downtime per year. Because of the number of nines, it is called “five nines.” However, there are “six nines” or “seven nines” systems. In this article, we will take a closer look at HA and discuss the types of high availability system architectures in PostgreSQL.

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Logical replication in PostgreSQL using pglogical – tutorial

2022-03-08
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Databases are what is the most often the critical component of any enterprise. Therefore, in order to ensure high availability, replication mechanisms have been created. Today we will introduce the topic of logical replication in PostgreSQL 13. The process of copying and transferring information between servers and keeping them synchronized in order to maintain consistency […]

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Underneath PostgreSQL 14 – a detailed list of changes

2021-11-10
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We prepared the broadest overlook on the changes and new functionalities. PostgreSQL is an object-relational database management system, developed at the University of California at Berkeley Computer Science Department. With over two decades of development behind it, PostgreSQL is now the most advanced open-source database available anywhere.

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PostgreSQL 13 – lucky number in the world of Postgres

2020-09-08
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Many people suffer from the irrational fear of 13, which is professionally referred to as triskaidecaphobia. In the case of the latest PostgreSQL release, bearing this number, however, the concerns are unfounded. Almost everyone will find changes that improve Postgres’s everyday aspects. So let’s try „conjure up ” apparent unluckyness of the 13th PostgreSQL release. […]

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