In 2008, when Heroku started, there was only one real option for cloud hosting PostgreSQL: roll-your-own on EC2, or a couple other not-very-...

Based on some comments in my post about "in-memory" databases , I realized that my post about running Postgres without disk sy...

I've been doing some comparative testing on different cloud platform's hosting of PostgreSQL.  And one of the deficiencies in this e...

As usual, we plan to have live video of Wednesday's San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group meeting . This one will involve Gandi.net show...

A few of our clients run on the Joyent cloud.  Uniquely, Joyent runs SmartOS, an Illumos (i.e. OpenSolaris) distribution, which is the def...

Tommorrow we're going to have two back-to-back SFPUG presentations about running PostgreSQL on AWS : Scalr presenting their stuff, and ...

We do a lot of high-availablity PostgreSQL deployments for clients.  As of 9.1, streaming replication (SR) is excellent for this, and can sc...