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February 11, 2025
How to Upgrade PostgreSQL Extensions: A Simple Guide
This post was originally written in January 2023 and was updated in February 2025. PostgreSQL is a powerful and flexible [...]
February 7, 2025
Encrypt PostgreSQL Data at Rest on Kubernetes
The upcoming Percona Operator for PostgreSQL v2.6.0 release introduces support for PostgreSQL 17, which opens exciting possibilities for data security. [...]
February 2, 2025
What is PostgreSQL? Everything You Need to Know
This blog was originally published in February of 2023 and updated in February 2025. What is PostgreSQL? It’s a powerful, [...]
January 22, 2025
PostgreSQL Database Security Best Practices
Data security threats are becoming increasingly sophisticated, creating real challenges for organizations using PostgreSQL databases. While PostgreSQL is known for [...]
January 14, 2025
What Hurts in PostgreSQL Part One: Temporary Tables
PostgreSQL is one of the most powerful database systems in the world. I have always been passionate about its great [...]
January 13, 2025
PostgreSQL vs. the Cloud for GenAI? 4 Things to Consider
Originally published on The New Stack. Cloud-related regulatory, security and financial issues prompt many to weigh the benefits of building GenAI [...]
January 11, 2025
Effective PostgreSQL Monitoring: Key Metrics and Tools
Running a high-performance, reliable PostgreSQL database is crucial for any business and application. However, as workloads grow and database environments [...]
January 9, 2025
Your Data’s Not Safe Until It’s TDE-Safe — Here’s How
If you’re managing a PostgreSQL database and handling sensitive data or PII, the answer is simple: You need data-at-rest encryption. [...]
January 2, 2025
How to Replace Patroni and Etcd IP/Host Information in PostgreSQL
As we know, Patroni is a well-established standard for an HA framework for PostgreSQL clusters. From time to time, we [...]
December 9, 2024
Performing ELT Operations Using DOMAINs
First things first, a couple of definitions to clear up: ETL: Extract, Transform, Load. Transforms data before loading it into [...]
November 19, 2024
Using Loki and Promtail to Display PostgreSQL Logs From a Kubernetes Cluster in PMM
This is a follow-up to my colleagues Nickolay and Phong’s Store and Manage Logs of Percona Operator Pods with PMM [...]
November 18, 2024
PostgreSQL 12 End of Life: Upgrade Now with Percona
PostgreSQL 12 reached its End of Life (EOL) on November 14, 2024. For more information, see the official PostgreSQL versioning [...]
November 6, 2024
An Elephant in the Cluster: Making PostgreSQL Feel at Home on Kubernetes
TL;DR Kubernetes was built for stateless apps, but as more stateful applications (like databases) run on it, operators include quite [...]
November 4, 2024
Exposing PostgreSQL with NGINX Ingress Controller
I wrote a blog post in the past about a generic approach on how to expose databases in Kubernetes with [...]
November 1, 2024
How Can MySQL Catch Up with PostgreSQL’s Momentum?
When I talk to old-timers in the MySQL community, I often hear this question: “How come MySQL is so awesome [...]
September 6, 2024
PostgreSQL Internals for Newbies: A Guide to Data Storage, Part One
Database novices often wonder how ‘things work behind the scenes’ when starting with PostgreSQL. Many things happen when creating a [...]
September 4, 2024
Percona In-Product Telemetry: Updates, Findings, and News
This article is, in fact, two topics merged into one publication. Both are related to anonymous statistical data collection within [...]
August 15, 2024
The Making of an Open Source PostgreSQL TDE Extension
When using a tool for a while, one often becomes patriotic towards it. With your investment, such as your work, [...]
August 13, 2024
Solving pg_upgrade and lc_collate Mismatch Issues in PostgreSQL
Character collations determine the sort order and classification of characters. When creating a database with initdb, PostgreSQL normally sets the [...]
August 12, 2024
How to Build a PostgreSQL Patch Test Environment on Ubuntu 22.04
While the well-established ways of building PostgreSQL from source still work, there are many new options on Linux as well. [...]