Author: Cary Huang

Enterprise PostgreSQL Solutions

Cary Huang

Cary is a Senior Software Developer in HighGo Software Canada with 8 years of industrial experience developing innovative software solutions in C/C++ in the field of smart grid & metering prior to joining HighGo. He holds a bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering from University of British Columnbia (UBC) in Vancouver in 2012 and has extensive hands-on experience in technologies such as: Advanced Networking, Network & Data security, Smart Metering Innovations, deployment management with Docker, Software Engineering Lifecycle, scalability, authentication, cryptography, PostgreSQL & non-relational database, web services, firewalls, embedded systems, RTOS, ARM, PKI, Cisco equipment, functional and Architecture Design.

1. Introduction Last year I wrote a blog about PostgreSQL’s timeline concept, which is essential for executing Point In Time Recovery (PITR) back to a particular timeline and particular Log Sequence Number (LSN). But we have not talked about the

Introduction Serverless architecture has been gaining popularity in the world of technology. With its promise of reduced infrastructure costs and increased scalability, serverless architecture has become a go-to solution for many companies, big and small. This popular architecture makes developers

1. Introduction In my previous blog here, I discussed about PostgreSQL’s point in time recovery where PostgreSQL supports an ability to recover your database to a specific time, recovery point or transaction ID in the past but I did not

Introduction In previous blogs, we talked about an overview of PostgreSQL’s table access method API here , how sequential scan is handled within this API here, and how data insertion is handled here. Today in this blog, we will look closely into how

1. Overview PostgreSQL 12 has been considered as a major update consisting of major performance boost with partitioning enhancements, indexing improvements, optimized planner logics and several others. One of the major changes is noticeably the removal of recovery.conf in a

1.0 Introduction There are several solutions out there that can solve distributed database issues (such as Citus) and solutions out there that can solve high availability and database clustering issues (such as patroni). Yes, they do solve distributed and database

1. Overview In the previous blog, we have discussed how to correctly set up streaming replication clusters between one master and one slave in Postgres version 12. In this blog, we will simulate a failover scenario on the master database,

What is a Table Access Method? Table access method is the interface between the PostgreSQL core and data storage management. Since PostgreSQL 12, it is possible to define your own custom table access method that stores data in custom forms

Introduction I shared a patch some time ago that adds a feature on libpq to allow user to supply multiple client certificate pairs. The feature is capable of choosing one client certificate to send to the server (if it requests

1. Introduction Recently I have been practicing the internals of PostgreSQL continuous archiving and the point in time recovery features that are required for my current development work. Today I would like to demonstrate these important features with the recently

About the Event In November, 2020, PostgresConf.CN and PGconf.Asia2020 cooperatively organized 2020 PG Asia Conference online for the very first time! This conference attracted over 100 participating experts, scholars and speakers around the world to deliver a grand technical feast

Introduction For the first time ever, PGConf.dev (previously known as PGCon from 2007 to 2023) has taken place in the picturesque city of Vancouver, Canada. This rebranded conference brings a fresh perspective and several new additions, elevating the experience beyond