On some rare occasions, I’ve been asked if Postgres supports system-versioned temporal tables – in other words, time travel on table data for your queries. As quite often with Postgres, thanks to its extensibility, I can answer: well, officially, it does not…but, you can make it work, nevertheless 🙂 Why are people even asking such […]

There are two types of replication available in PostgreSQL at the moment: Streaming replication & Logical replication. If you are looking to set up streaming replication for PostgreSQL 13, this is the page you have been looking for. This tutorial will show you how to configure PostgreSQL replication and how to set up your database servers […]

© Laurenz Albe 2020 Streaming replication in PostgreSQL is a well-established master-slave replication technique. It is simple to set up, stable and performs well. So many people are surprised when they learn about replication conflicts — after all, the standby server is read-only. This article describes replication conflicts and tells you how to deal with […]