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07 October 2019
PostgreSQL® 12 released
The PostgreSQL® Global Development Group (PGDG) has released version 12 of the popular, free database PostgreSQL®. As our Beta 4 article already suggested, a multitude of new features, improvements, and optimizations have been incorporated into the release. These include: Optimized storage utilization and speed for btree indexes btree indexes, the standard index type in PostgreSQL®, […]
01 October 2019
Client certificates for Icinga2 API authentication
There are two ways to authenticate yourself as a client to Icinga2. On the one hand there is the possibility to authenticate yourself by username and password. The other option is authentication using client certificates. With the automated query of the Icinga2 API, the setup of client certificates is not only safety-technically advantageous, but also […]
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 […]