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Elizabeth Christensen
Elizabeth Christensen
Many folks are surprised to hear that Postgres has parallel queries out of the box. This was released in small batches across a half dozen versions of Postgres, so the major fanfare for having parallelism got a little bit lost. By default Postgres is configured for two parallel workers. The Postgres query planner will assemble a few plans for any given query and will estimate the additional overhead of performing parallel queries, and make a go or no-go decision. Depending on the settings and th...
Read MoreDoug Hunley
Doug Hunley
Crunchy Data is pleased to announce the publication of the Crunchy Data PostgreSQL 16 Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) by the United States Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA). This update covers Postgres versions 13-16, for previous versions of Postgres see the prior Crunchy Data Postgres STIG . Crunchy Data has collaborated with DISA since 2017 on the PostgreSQL STIG and this new STIG reflects Crunchy Data's ongoing collaboration with DISA and commitment to provide enh...
Read MoreAndrew L'Ecuyer
Andrew L'Ecuyer
As a team you often get handed a piece of software to deploy and manage, for example Red Hat's Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) or Quay. Red Hat's guide is to run and manage this in OpenShift and great, you're already comfortable with OpenShift and have a decent size deployment. Turns out pretty early on you've got a decision to make you didn't even realize was a decision, what are you going to do about the database? Most software needs a database – and the database of choice is overwhelmingly...
Read MoreGreg Nokes
Greg Nokes
We are excited to introduce Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes (CPK) 5.6, the latest version of our PostgreSQL Kubernetes operator . This release brings several new features that will elevate your PostgreSQL experience to new heights, ensuring better management, automation, and scalability. Managing storage is now simpler with Crunchy Postgres for Kubernetes 5.6. The new storage management feature allows CPK to automatically expand storage for your Postgres clusters as your data grows. Say goo...
Read MoreBrian Pace
Brian Pace
In the evolving world of data management, ensuring consistency and accuracy across multiple database systems is paramount. Whether you're migrating data, synchronizing systems, or performing routine audits, the ability to compare data across different database platforms is crucial. Enter pgCompare , an open-source tool designed to simplify and enhance the process of data comparison across PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL, and MSSQL databases. The key features of pgCompare: • Multi-Database support : p...
Read MoreGreg Nokes
Greg Nokes
When your company has decided it's time to invest in more open source, Postgres is the obvious choice. Managing databases is not new and you already have established practices and requirements for rolling out a new database. One of the big requirements we frequently help new customers with on their Postgres adoption is data encryption. While the question is simple, there's a few layers to it that determine which is the right approach for you. Here we'll walk through the pros and cons of approach...
Read MoreCraig Kerstiens
Craig Kerstiens
Today we're excited to announce a new scheduler for Crunchy Bridge. Scheduler makes it easy for you to create and manage automated database maintenance tasks such as: • Refreshing materialized views • Performing automated roll-ups from raw data • Running partitioning maintenance tasks (run pg_partman automatically) • Archiving or pruning old data Refreshing materialized views Performing automated roll-ups from raw data Running partitioning maintenance tasks (run pg_partman automaticall...
Read MoreMarco Slot
Marco Slot
Last month we launched Crunchy Bridge for Analytics , a new managed PostgreSQL offering that lets you query your data lake directly from PostgreSQL. Since then, we have had quite a few exciting conversations with customers handling large amounts of data in PostgreSQL. A common question is of course: How does it work? In this post, I wanted to shed some light on the internals. Crunchy Bridge for Analytics abstracts the query engine to offer fast analytics on data in Amazon S3 in PostgreSQL. In p...
Read MoreElizabeth Christensen
Elizabeth Christensen
I love taking random spatial data and turning it into maps. Any location data can be put into PostGIS in a matter of minutes. Often when I’m working with data that humans collected, like historic locations or things that have not yet traditionally been done with computational data, I’ll find traditional Degrees, Minutes, Seconds (DMS) data. To get this into PostGIS and QGIS, you’ll need to convert this data to a different system for decimal degrees. There’s probably proprietary tools that will d...
Read MoreKeith Fiske
Keith Fiske
Whether you are managing a large table or setting up automatic archiving , time based partitioning in Postgres is incredibly powerful. pg_partman ’s newest versions support a huge variety of custom time internals. Marco just published a post on using pg_partman with our new database product for doing analytics with Postgres , Crunchy Data Warehouse . So I thought this would be a great time to review the basic and complex options for the time based partitioning. When I first started designi...
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