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Michael Banck
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Michael Banck has been an employee of credativ GmbH since 2009, a member of the Debian project since 2001, and is also active in other open-source projects. As a member of the database team at credativ, he has supported and advised various customers in recent years on solving problems with and the daily operation of PostgreSQL®, as well as on the introduction of high-availability solutions in the database sector.
22 February 2024
Quick Benchmark: PostgreSQL 2024Q1 Release Performance Improvements
The PostgreSQL 2024Q1 back-branch releases 16.2, 15.6, 14.11, 13.14 and 12.18 on February 8th 2024. Besides fixing a security issue (CVE-2024-0985) and the usual bugs, they are somewhat unique in that they address two performance problems by backporting fixes already introduced into the master branch before. In this blog post, we describe two quick benchmarks […]
04 May 2021
Moodle PostgreSQL load balancing with HAProxy and Patroni
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 […]
14 January 2020
Debian integration of Patroni and vip-manager
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 […]
27 January 2019
Integrating Patroni into Debian
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 […]
05 July 2018
PostgreSQL® 11: Checksums and base backups
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 […]