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12 September 2019
PostgreSQL® 12 Beta 4 released
Yesterday, the fourth beta of the upcoming PostgreSQL®-major version 12 was released. Compared to its predecessor PostgreSQL® 11, there are many new features: Performance improvements for indexes: btree indexes now manage space more efficiently. The REINDEX command now also supports CONCURRENTLY, which was previously only possible with new indexes. WITH queries are now embedded in […]
18 April 2019
The XEN hypervisor and microcode updates
One would think that microcode updates are basically unproblematic on modern Linux distributions. This is fundamentally correct. Nevertheless, there are always edge cases in which distribution developers may have missed something. Using the example of Ubuntu 18.04 LTS “Bionic Beaver” in connection with the XEN Hypervisor this becomes obvious when it comes to processors microcode […]
15 April 2019
PostgreSQL on Kubernetes with the help of OpenEBS
In this article, we look at running PostgreSQL® in a highly available setup in a Kubernetes environment—a topic that is certainly of particular interest to many of our PostgreSQL® users. Together with our partner company MayaData, we demonstrate below the use cases and benefits of the extremely powerful open-source project OpenEBS. OpenEBS is a freely […]
18 March 2019
New PuTTY version after almost 2 years
The open-source SSH client PuTTY, popular among Windows administrators, was released in a new version last Saturday. This update closes several critical security vulnerabilities. The last version of PuTTY was released around 20 months ago. Users should update urgently The newly released version 0.71 was made available for download last Saturday, March 16, 2019. PuTTY […]
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 […]