plaur782's comments

On: PostgreSQL 17.2, 16.6, 15.10, 14.15, 13.18, and 12.22 Released!

[plaur782]

For more context, this is an out of cycle Postgres minor version release as a result of issues identified in the prior minor version release that occurred on November 14th.

These threads provide more details:

https://x.com/marcoslot/status/1857403646134153438

https://bsky.app/profile/marcoslot.com/post/3laywltkea226

On: When did Postgres become cool?

[plaur782]

Josh Berkus had a great talk on the history of Postgres forks and variants. Link below to slides from a version of this talk in 2009:

https://www.slideshare.net/pgconf/elephant-roads-a-tour-of-p...

[Daviey → plaur782]

I think a version of the same talk was done at FOSDEM that year, and I remember it being very interesting!

On: Learn Postgres at the Playground – Postgres compiled to WASM running in browser

[plaur782]

A number of good options. Different folks have their favorites: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/books/

On: Postgres Container Apps (beta)

[plaur782]

I appreciate the heads up. You are trying this page (https://www.crunchydata.com/products/crunchy-bridge/pricing/) and it isnt working for you?

[throwthere → plaur782]

Yes. I just dug deeper now and saw that you can get to the prices if you scroll to the right on mobile. It wasn’t obvious to me that there was more content to the right

On: Postgres Container Apps (beta)

[plaur782]

Evidently it is smooshing:

https://redmonk.com/jgovernor/2022/03/31/on-postgres-contain...

On: Encrypting Postgres Data at Rest in Kubernetes

[plaur782]

No. You are not alone. There are still a number of organizations that are cautious about deploying databases in Kubernetes. That said, various third party surveys as well as anecdotal evidence of what we are seeing at Crunchy Data suggests that deploying databases on Kubernetes is increasingly common. The degree to which it makes sense often depends on whether or not the organization is standardizing around Kubernetes for their deployment model more generally.

On: Postgres Backups for Applications

[plaur782]

Maybe worth checking out pgbackrest (https://pgbackrest.org/) as an open source external tool for Postgres backup / restore if you have not already.

On: Are open source databases dead?

[plaur782]

There is an important distinction between community driven open source databases (ex: Postgres) and open source databases that are developed, maintained and owned by a single corporate sponsor.

On: Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?

[plaur782]

Depending on requirements, there are an increasing number of options for "active-active" Postgres deployments. A colleague wrote this on a federated active-active configuration on Kubernetes: https://info.crunchydata.com/blog/active-active-postgres-fed...

On: Have the Tables Turned on NoSQL?

[plaur782]

This is the key point we see - most applications just do not generate write traffic that is beyond what a recent release of Postgres can handle.