At last week’s local Postgres user group meetup here in Estonia, one of the topics was HA and recent Patroni (the most popular cluster manager for Postgres) improvements in supporting quorum commit, which by the way on its own has been possible to use for years. Things went deep quickly... [Read More]

Meet Postgres User Group Tallinn / Estonia [Read More]

Postgres is already great, surely - even “too popular” one could complain with a twist…as this broadcast “was” actually supposed to be my Lightning Talk at last month’s pgConf.eu in Athens 🙂 But indeed, seems Postgres has in an awesome way gotten so big that it’s not like that anymore... [Read More]

At pgConf.eu in Athens - by the way, reported to be the largest PostgreSQL conference to date, attesting to the software’s undeniable success! - I got into a sort of interesting hallway discussion. I guess my chat companion was relatively new to the ecosystem - and said something along the... [Read More]

While everyone agrees that Postgres has a lot of really nice things going for it, the analytics story has lagged a bit as there are some hard problems to be solved - the on-disk format would have to be changed or IO-layer abstracted away even further to allow alternative engines,... [Read More]