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:…
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.…