After spending pretty much the entire week on freeing a customer from the chains of Oracle’s license policy, I found an interesting issue, which made me smile: When the Oracle code was built 15 years ago or so, somebody created a table called “pg_type” on the Oracle side as part of the application. With only […]

In my experience many big PostgreSQL instances are on Linux / UNIX these days. However, recently we have seen quite a number of Windows systems running PostgreSQL for a bigger production system. There are still rarely really large databases (XX TB) on Windows. However, Windows might very well catch up a bit in the future. On […]