22 February 2017 | Postgres Pro Standard 9.6.2.1 released

Postgres Pro Standard 9.6.2.1 has been released today. It is based on PostgreSQL 9.6.2 and contains the new upstream fixes and Postgres Pro extensions updates, including pg_pathman, pg_probackup and sr_plan.

29 July 2016 | Leonid Libkin from the University of Edinburgh will give a talk "Making SQL Queries Correct on Databases with Nulls" 9 August at 14:00

What is the scientifically correct way if using NULLs  ?

12 April 2016 | ora2pg improved by 45%

Gilles Darold from the french company Dalibo, the ora2pg author, has blogged that the performance improvement given by the Svetlana's patch can be as high as 45%.

26 February 2016 | Henrietta Dombrovskaya will speak at Postgres Professional seminar

Henrietta will present a talk on Temporal and Bi-Temporal databases at the PostgresPrpo seminar at 2 Mar 2016.

11 March | Indexes in PostgreSQL — 1

This series of articles is largely concerned with indexes in PostgreSQL.

2 November 2017 | Warsaw PgConf.EU 2017 has finished

Postgres Professional delegates are back from PgConf.EU 2017 - the annual European PostgreSQL conference, which took place in Warsaw on October 24-27.

9 January 2017 | Millions of Queries per Second: PostgreSQL and MySQL’s Peaceful Battle at Today’s Demanding Workloads

This blog compares how PostgreSQL and MySQL handle millions of queries per second.

pg_probackup

Pg_probackup is a utility to manage backup and recovery of PostgreSQL database clusters. It is designed to perform periodic backups of the PostgreSQL instance that enable you to restore the server in case of a failure.

pg_variables

Functions for defining and using variables in client sessions.

pg_pathman

The pg_pathman module provides optimized partitioning mechanism and functions to manage partitions.

JsQuery

JsQuery – is a language to query jsonb data type, introduced in PostgreSQL release 9.4. It's primary goal is to provide an additional functionality to jsonb (currently missing in PostgreSQL), such as a simple and effective way to search in nested objects and arrays, more comparison operators with indexes support.

Query plans management

Business-critical applications require continuous monitoring and adjustment of query plans. The problem hardens due the fact that actual resources consumption by query execution could differ significantly with slight changes of the query plan cost. Thus, there is a permanent risk of bad plan selection and overall system performance degradation after collecting new statistics. DBAs want to protect themselves from this risk by freezing plans of particular most critical queries.

Better temporary tables

Temporary tables are often being used. Their performance could be increased if they are removed from system catalog. Also it is attractive to allow using temporary tables on read-only standbys.

Multi-master cluster with sharding

Multi-master cluster with sharding which provides read/write scalability as well as high availability is obviously one of most wanted DBMS features. Experience shows that we should move in step-by-step manner in order to have it in core one day. Postgres Professional company joins community efforts in this direction.