Load balancing increases the system throughput from the application standpoint by distributing the read load from application to multiple replicated database nodes. Some time ago, I wrote a blog discussing effectiveness of Pgpool-II load balancer in different scenarios. Pgpool-II provides one of the best user-friendly load balancers for PostgreSQL that does not require any modification| Highgo Software Inc. - Enterprise PostgreSQL Solutions
This is the second of the two-part series of blogs about PostgreSQL data corruption. Part-1 discussed identifying the data corruption in PostgreSQL and lists some DO’s and DON’Ts for avoiding that. In this part, I will attempt to walk you through possible ways to recover from the corruption and ways to salvage data in case of… Read more The post Avoiding, Identifying, and dealing with PostgreSQL database corruption – Part 2 first appeared on Highgo Software Inc.. The post Avoiding, I...| Highgo Software Inc.
Muhammad Usama is a database architect / PostgreSQL consultant at HighGo Software and also Pgpool-II core committer. Usama has been involved with database development (PostgreSQL) since 2006, he is the core committer for open source middleware project Pgpool-II and has played a pivotal role in driving and enhancing the product. Prior to coming to open source development, Usama was doing software design and development with the main focus on system-level embedded development. After joining the...| www.highgo.ca
All the things that can happen to databases, corruption is not the one that happens frequently, but when it does it can result in major downtime and data loss. Probably it is one of the most terrifying things for a DBA to come across and the best way to deal with it is to not| Highgo Software Inc. - Enterprise PostgreSQL Solutions