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    Month: February 2016

    16.02.2016 | Hans-Jürgen Schönig

    VirtualBox vs. hardware for PostgreSQL

    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 VirtualBox mean to […]

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    02.02.2016 | Hans-Jürgen Schönig

    pg_service.conf: The forgotten config file

    Once in a while, I rediscover 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 services in […]

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