UPDATE on 23.02.2023: This post explains how to install PostgreSQL on WSL2 for Windows, apply the necessary changes to PostgreSQL settings, and access the database from the Windows host. Even though this knowledge can be found in different bits and pieces spread out all over the internet, I want to compile a short and straightforward […]

Intro GitHub Actions (GHA) are altogether a piece of excellent machinery for continuous integration or other automated tasks on your repo. I started to use them from the release day on as a replacement for CircleCI. Not that I think CircleCI is a bad product; I love to have everything in one place if possible. […]

PostgreSQL High-Availability has been one of the most dominant topics in the field for a long time. While there are many different approaches out there, Patroni seems to have become one of the most dominant solutions currently in use out there. Many database clusters run on Linux. However, we have seen some demand for a […]

This is a How-To blog about the PSQL_EDITOR variable. While trying to figure out all possible pitfalls, I’ve somehow managed to write a full blog post. You may skip to the summary though. All tests were done on Windows 10 with PostgreSQL 12 installed. As you know, PostgreSQL ships with an interactive console tool named […]

I’ve written already a blog post “Building PostgreSQL with MSYS2 and MinGW under Windows” a year ago. But this time I want to show you two important things: cross compiling (x86, x64) using the same run-time; compiling with the latest OpenSSL support.   That’s true nowadays you won’t find binaries or installations of PostgreSQL without […]

Preface There are several ways of building PostgreSQL under Windows. Official manual stands using Visual Studio is the simplest one, wiki describes how to use mingw and mingw-w64. As for me, using new MSYS2 building platform for Windows is a bless. With its help not only PostgreSQL sources are built smoothly, but even extensions are […]

This post talks about using pg_ctl to register PostgreSQL as a service on Windows. 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 […]