Month: February 2016
PostgreSQL on hardware vs. PostgreSQL on VirtualBox
These days everybody is moving stuff to the cloud. In many cases there are good reasons to do so. Administering hardware is not what running a modern company is all about in most cases. The key advantage is that virtualization allows people to add and remove servers as needed. However, what does this all mean […]
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pg_service.conf: The forgotten config file
Once in a while I am rediscovering features in PostgreSQL, which have been there for many many years but which are so rarely used that people tend not to talk about them. One of those (in my experience) rarely used features is the ability to create a file called pg_service.conf. The basic idea is to configure […]
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