In modern database architectures, it’s common to maintain separate environments for transactional operations and analytical workloads. One challenging scenario is […]
Production PostgreSQL deployments demand high availability. Applications requiring four or five nines of uptime need resilient database clusters built on
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Introduction In the previous blog, we explored the fundamentals of logical decoding and logical replication. Now, let’s go one step
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Introduction PostgreSQL, a powerful open-source relational database, offers multiple replication strategies to support high availability, scalability, and integration. Among them,
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Introduction: One of our customers were experiencing high CPU utilization during specific operations. We conducted close monitoring of the system
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Recently, I had the opportunity to upgrade one of my client’s PostgreSQL databases. The environment is a High availability setup
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