Christoph Berg's blog

Users had often asked where they could find older versions of packages from apt.postgresql.org . I had been collecting these since about April 2013, and in July 2016, I made the packages available via an ad-hoc URL on the repository master host, called "the morgue". There was little repository...

Yesterday, the fourth beta of the upcoming PostgreSQL major version 12 was released. Compared to its predecessor PostgreSQL 11, there are many new features: Performance improvements for indexes: btree indexes now manage space more efficiently. The REINDEX command now also supports CONCURRENTLY,...

This week version 1.3 of our PostgreSQL appliance Elephant Shed was released. The highlight of the new version is support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and CentOS 7. As is already the case for Debian, the appliance heavily relies on the postgresql-common infrastructure which was previously ported...

Today PostgreSQL version 11 was released. The new release brings improvements in many areas. Since version 9.6 query plans can be executed on multiple CPU cores in parallel, this is now supported for other plan types, especially the creation of B-tree indexes. Sequential scans and UNION queries...

Elephant Shed is now available as a Vagrant box . This makes it very easy to test and try out the PostgreSQL appliance. Vagrant is an Open Source tool for creating portable virtual software environments. By being fully script controlled Vagrant makes it easy to generate virtual machines, in which a...