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Postgres Plus Cloud Server 1.0 public beta now available!

Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 by Hans Hrasna

I am pleased to announce that Postgres Plus Cloud Server 1.0beta is now available to the public on Amazon EC2.

Postgres Plus Cloud Server enables you to create an elastic PostgreSQL database on the Amazon EC2 cloud service in minutes that can be automatically or manually scaled to increase your data storage space as your data grows and add read replicas as connection demands increase. Applications that use PostgreSQL or Postgres Plus Advanced server can transparently connect to the cloud database clusters and connections are intelligently load balanced among the servers in the cluster.

If you are interested in trying out the beta please follow the instructions on this page: http://www.enterprisedb.com/pcs-amazon-launch-guide

Postgres Plus Cloud Server 1.0 public beta now available!

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Pg_Migrator 8.4.1 Released

Monday, July 20th, 2009 by Bruce Momjian

I have released pg_migrator 8.4.1, which fixes all known bugs.

Pg_Migrator 8.4.1 Released

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Setback for Pg_Migrator

Sunday, July 19th, 2009 by Bruce Momjian

This past week two bugs were found in pg_migrator: one related to the handling of large objects, and a second related to migrating sequences. I have removed pg_migrator 8.4 from the web site, and posted an 8.4.1 Alpha 1 release with a clear mention of the two known bugs that exist. I hope to have these bugs fixed in the next few weeks.

Setback for Pg_Migrator

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Pg_Migrator 8.4 Final Released Last Week

Monday, July 13th, 2009 by Bruce Momjian

After a great amount of testing, pg_migrator 8.4 final was released last week. I have received some successful usage reports, and no bug reports so far, so it seems all the testing paid off. Thanks to the many testers that made pg_migrator 8.4 possible.

Pg_Migrator 8.4 Final Released Last Week

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PostgreSQL 8.4 Released

Monday, July 6th, 2009 by Jim Mlodgenski

Last week, the PostgreSQL community announced the general availability of PostgreSQL 8.4. This is another great release from the community with a number of great new features such as analytical functions and even deeper security. All worthy features to be highlighted as the headline of the release, but the true headline feature is not even part of the core engine. In conjunction with the 8.4 release, Bruce Momjian is in the process of releasing pg_migrator as an external project that allows users to upgrade their database in place. While most databases has had this functionality for years, it is something that PostgreSQL has lacked and in my opinion has held PostgreSQL back from deeper enterprise adoption. Previously, to move to a new major release, users would need to export their data from the old version and then import it into the new version. This works well when the database is small, but if the database is large, it could mean hours or days of downtime to upgrade the database along with at least double the storage to hold the two copies. This is completely unacceptable to enterprises that need to maintain a 24×7 environment. I believe that pg_migrator has cleared on the the few major technical hurdles preventing PostgreSQL from widespread commercial adoption.

PostgreSQL 8.4 Released

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General Availability of Postgres Plus Advanced Server v8.3 Release 2 (8.3 R2)

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009 by EnterpriseDB

EnterpriseDB is excited to announce the immediate General Availability of Postgres Plus Advanced Server v8.3 Release 2 (8.3 R2).

This customer-driven release continues to build beyond the features and performance found in the community version of PostgreSQL while decreasing the risk and cost in time, money, and re-training to switch to an affordable open source database technology. The new capabilities focus on deeper Oracle compatibility, even easier migrations from other databases, and performance and scalability unmatched by any PostgreSQL database. Additionally, there are multiple component maintenance upgrades and over 200 minor fixes and enhancements.

What’s in it for you? Some of the release highlights include:

Deeper Oracle support for objects, packages, transaction management, and migration reduces the risk and cost of adopting open source database technology by allowing you to better leverage your investment in Oracle skills and lower the cost of migrating and adopting a world class open source database built on PostgreSQL

Infinite Cache improves performance up to 5 times faster than the PostgreSQL community version while reducing costs for massive scalability across your existing commodity hardware footprint

LDAP and PAM Security support allow easier application customization while EDB*Wrap protects sensitive or proprietary code

New / updated documentation

Download 8.3 R2 now for Linux, Windows or Mac. For all the details inside the release, see the Release Notes at the same link above or check out the documentation.

The award-winning Postgres Plus products based on PostgreSQL come available with industry leading services such as 24×7 technical support, expert-delivered training for DBAs and application developers, pre-packaged services, and professional consulting.

General Availability of Postgres Plus Advanced Server v8.3 Release 2 (8.3 R2)

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