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26 February 2018
Elephant Shed - Roadmap published
The credativ PostgreSQL® Competence Center has released a project roadmap for the PostgreSQL® Appliance Elephant Shed. Elephant Shed is a freely available PostgreSQL® solution developed by credativ, which combines management, monitoring and administration into one system. The project roadmap for 2018 includes following points: Q2 2018: Support for Ubuntu 18.04 Q3 2018: Support for CentOS […]
14 February 2018
Elephant Shed in a Vagrant box
Elephant Shed is now available as a Vagrant box. This makes it very easy to test and try out the PostgreSQL® appliance. Vagrant is an Open Source tool for creating portable virtual software environments. By being fully script controlled Vagrant makes it easy to generate virtual machines, in which a software component is installed for […]
04 January 2018
The Processor as a Security Vulnerability
At the beginning of 2018, issues with memory management and Intel processors became public. According to these reports, it is apparently possible to read arbitrary areas of the kernel and userspace memory regions and thus potentially gain access to sensitive areas. Over the past few days, there have been rumors and speculations about the direction […]
12 May 2017
PostgreSQL® Auditing Extension on Debian/Ubuntu
The pgAudit extension allows for fine-grained auditing of access to a PostgreSQL® database. Among other things, it is an important component of the recently published PostgreSQL® STIG (“Security Technical Implementation Guide”) by the US Department of Defense. Debian packages created by us as part of the pkg-postgresql project are now available in the official PostgreSQL® […]
15 June 2016
Quality Assurance in PostgreSQL® with SQLsmith
An interesting tool for quality assurance of C compilers is Csmith, a generator of random C programs. I had come to appreciate it during the development of an optimization phase for a C compiler. This compiler features extensive regression tests, and the correctness of the translated programs is also tested using standardized benchmarks. The latter, […]