Month: January 2015
Managing backup speed with pg_basebackup
pg_basebackup and backup speed: In the past couple of years, replication has been made easier and easier. Setting up streaming replication is pretty easy these days. When I train people I get a lot of positive feedback. People seem to like the way entire database instances can be cloned. In many cases, DBAs use a […]
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Forking databases – the art of copying without copying
I received a question about how to fork PostgreSQL databases like you can do on Heroku. As I did not find any good examples on how to do this, I decided to do a quick write up. What does “fork databases” mean? Forking a database means taking a copy of a database where you can […]
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