PostgreSQL 18 shipped asynchronous I/O. PostgreSQL 19, currently in feature freeze and headed for a September release, makes it tolerable to operate. That sounds like a snide reading. It is not. The AIO subsystem in PG18 was a serious…

TL;DR Percona XtraBackup is a 100% open-source backup solution for Percona Server for MySQL and MySQL®. It is designed for high-availability environments, performing online, non-blocking, and highly secure backups of transactional systems…

Time zones are an unfortunately complex subject when dealing with PostgreSQL. You may be running your local time zone on your on-premises server or on your own laptop. Or you may be using the time zone of your server’s physical location.…
Last week, ProxySQL announced that they are taking over the maintenance and development of Orchestrator, the MySQL high-availability and topology management tool originally authored by Shlomi Noach. You can read their announcement here:…