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10 November 2025
Representing credativ at PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2025
The European PostgreSQL Conference (PGConf.EU) is one of the largest PostgreSQL events worldwide. In this year it was held 21–24 October in Riga, Latvia. Our company, credativ GmbH, was a bronze sponsor of the conference, and I had the privilege to represent credativ with my talk “Database in Distress: Testing and Repairing Different Types of […]
03 November 2025
PostgreSQL 18 enables data‑checksums by default
As I explained in my talk on PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2025, data corruption can be silently present in any PostgreSQL database and will remain undetected until we physically read corrupted data. There can be many reasons why some data blocks in tables or other objects can be damaged. Even modern storage hardware is far from […]
03 June 2025
Boldly Migrate to PostgreSQL - Introducing credativ-pg-migrator
Many companies these days are thinking about migrating their databases from legacy or proprietary system to PostgreSQL. The primary aim is to reduce costs, enhance capabilities, and ensure long-term sustainability. However, even just the idea of migrating to PostgreSQL can be overwhelming. Very often, knowledge about the legacy applications is limited or even lost. In […]
13 May 2025
PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2025
PGConf.DE 2025, the 9th Annual PostgreSQL Conference Germany, was held on May 8–9, 2025, at the Marriott Hotel near Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The event interconnected PostgreSQL enthusiasts, developers, DBAs, and industry sponsors for two days of fascinating talks across four parallel tracks. It was the biggest event so far, with 347 attendees. The whole […]
17 December 2024
Quick Benchmark: Improvements to Large Object Dumping in Postgres 17
Version 17 of PostgreSQL has been released for a while. One of the many features is a change by Tom Lane called “Rearrange pg_dump’s handling of large objects for better efficiency”. In the past, we have seen our customers have several problems with a large number of large objects being a performance issue for dump/restore. […]