December 28, 2021 | JSON Special Interest Group (JSIG) has been formed in the PostgreSQL community

Oleg Bartunov, CEO Postgres Professional and PostgreSQL Major Contributor gave a talk on JSONB performance at PGConf NYC 2021. After the presentation, EnterpriseDB’s Simon Riggs, another PostgreSQL Major Contributor proposed to create a PostgreSQL JSON workgroup (JSON Special Interest Group, JSIG). This group, consisting of several community members, will work together to enhance JSON functionality in Postgres for different use cases.

December 9, 2021 | Postgres Pro Standard 14.1.1 has been released!

The Standard edition of Postgres Pro DBMS 14.1.1 has become available, along with new minor releases for the following versions: Std 9.6.24.1, Std 10.19.1, Std 11.14.1, Std 12.9.1 and Std 13.5.1.

November 11, 2021 | PGConf.Russia Gathers 500+ IT Professionals at a Hybrid Online+Offline Event

25-26 October PGConf.Russia 2021 was held in a hybrid format to accommodate both online and offline participants. Postgres Professional organized this notable event for the 8th time; more than 500 people attended it virtually and in person. Software developers, database administrators, and top managers from the IT industry exchanged PostgreSQL best practices and shared their experience with the world’s most advanced open source database. Representatives of Intel, Yandex, EnterpriseDB, DBeaver Corp, Delivery Hero, and many other companies and organizations were speaking at PGConf.

March 12, 2021 | PGConf.Online 2021 wrap-up: 57 talks, 30 international speakers, 2000+ registrants!

PGConf.Online wrapped up 10 days ago, and we want to share some important stats with you. We were glad to have welcomed 2000+ registrants this year with 700-900 of them joining us online each day! The total attendance/registration rate for all three days was near 75%, which is amazing!

February 28 | PGConf.Russia 2022

The conference will take place at February 28 and March 1 at the Sechenov Medical University Congress Center.

October 11, 2021 | High availability and disaster recovery (HA/DR) for Postgres databases

This is a summary of Postgres Professional’s more than 6 years field experience of providing HA/DR solutions to our customers and it covers both PostgreSQL and Postgres Pro databases.

While most of our customers are making progress on their journeys to the cloud, many of the HA/DR solutions they use from the on-premises world can be used in the cloud as well.

September 27, 2021 | А deep dive into PostgreSQL query optimizations

During PostgreSQL maintenance, resource-consuming queries occur inevitably. Therefore, it's vital for every Database Engineer, DBA, or Software Developer to detect and fix them as soon as possible. In this article, we'll list various extensions and monitoring tools used to collect information about queries and display them in a human-readable way.

Then we will cover typical query writing mistakes and explain how to correct them. We will also consider cases where extended statistics are used for more accurate row count estimates. Finally, you will see an example of how PostgreSQL planner excludes redundant filter clauses during its work.

September 8, 2021 | Optimizing PostgreSQL queries: questions and answers

During our webinar on PostgreSQL query optimization, we found many of your questions interesting and helpful to the public, if properly answered. Get more useful links and working expert advice from Peter Petrov, our Database Engineer.

pg_pathman

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

online_analyze

pg_variables

Functions for defining and using variables in client sessions.

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.

Connection pooling

Working with large number of simultaneous connections almost inevitably leads to usage of connection pools. Unfortunately, present pooling solutions are very limited in access to all PostgreSQL features.

Page-level data compression

PGLZ compression of individual values is used now in PostgreSQL. That’s good, but sometimes it’s possible to achieve significant compression only when compressing multiple values together. This is why we’re considering page-level data compression.

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.