02 July 2024
Hashicorp Terraform is a well-known infrastructure automation tool mostly targeting cloud deployments. Instaclustr (a part of NetApp’s CloudOps division and credativ’s parent company) provides a managed service for various data stores, including PostgreSQL. Provisioning managed clusters is possible via the Instaclustr console, a REST API or through the Instaclustr Terraform Provider. In this first part […]
26 June 2024
On Wednesday, June 5th, I attended the Prague PostgreSQL Developers Day 2024. It is the premier PostgreSQL conference in the Czech Republic, and this year marked its 16th iteration. The event was held in the modern and convenient environment of the Czech Technical University and was attended by almost 270 participants. During the conference, I […]
26 March 2024
Overview Tables that are created and dropped on demand, whether they are temporary or regular, are frequently used by application developers in PostgreSQL to simplify the implementation of various functionalities and to expedite responses. Numerous articles on the internet describe the advantages of using such tables for storing search results, precalculating figures for reports, importing […]
22 February 2024
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 […]
05 May 2022
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 […]