Alexander Leonov
May Linux Patch Wednesday. A total of 1,638 vulnerabilities (474 in the Linux kernel). For comparison, in April there were 1,035 vulnerabilities (a record!). And this time it turns out to be a record again, more than one and a half times higher! The acceleration is both impressive and alarming....
Jeremy
Saw this post on LinkedIn yesterday: I also somehow missed this setting for years. And it’s crazy timing, because it’s right after I published a blog about seeing the exact problem this solves. In my blog post I mentioned “unexpected behaviors (bugs?) in… Postgres itself.” Turns out...
Jeremy
This article is a shortened version. For the full writeup, go to https://github.com/ardentperf/pg-idle-test/tree/main/conn_exhaustion This test suite demonstrates a failure mode when application bugs which poison connection pools collide with PgBouncers that are missing peer config and...
Anantha Kumaran
At work, we recently had to move a few tables from one PostgreSQL instance to another. In my previous post, I discussed how to use Google’s Database Migration Service (DMS) to migrate data from one instance to another. Unfortunately, that option was not available here, since DMS only allows the...