devops

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Waiting for Postgres 18 – Docker Containers 34% Smaller

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ April 7, 2025 ⋅ Leave a comment

On February 25, 2025 Christoph Berg committed the patch: This closed Debian bug 927182 which had been opened in April 2019 by Laurence Parry. That bug had raised concerns over the significant size increase of adding LLVM as a requirement to support Postgres JIT functionality. Postgres supports packaging LLVM as a separate optional package without … Continue reading →

Challenges of Postgres Containers

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ December 31, 2024 ⋅ Leave a comment

Many enterprise workloads are being migrated from commercial databases like Oracle and SQL Server to Postgres, which brings anxiety and challenges for mature operational teams. Learning a new database like Postgres sounds intimidating. In practice, most of the concepts directly transfer from databases like SQL Server and Oracle. Transactions, SQL syntax, explain plans, connection management, … Continue reading →

Patching Time

Posted by Jeremy ⋅ October 15, 2014

Just a quick note to point out that the October PSU was just released. The database has a few more vulnerabilities than usual (31), but they are mostly related to Java and the high CVSS score of 9 only applies to people running Oracle on windows. (On other operating systems, the highest score is 6.5.) … Continue reading →