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Enterprise PostgreSQL Solutions

Deciphering PostgreSQL Encryption: A Beginner’s Guide

Introduction In this blog, we’ll go over the different methods we can use to encrypt and decrypt data in a PostgreSQL database. Having some experience with Linux and PostgreSQL is necessary, while experience with encryption is not but is nice to have. This blog was written using PostgreSQL 16 running on Ubuntu 23.04. First I’ll…
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Getting Started with Psycopg2: Python’s PostgreSQL Adapter

Introduction This blog is aimed at beginners trying to learn the basics of PostgreSQL and Python but already have some experience under their belt. For this tutorial, we will assume you have PostgreSQL correctly installed on Ubuntu. All of these steps were done using PostgreSQL 16 (development version) and Python 3.11.4 on Ubuntu 23.04. We’ll…
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Putting Postgres to the Test: How to Create and Run Regression and TAP Tests

Introduction This blog is aimed at beginners trying to learn the basics of PostgreSQL but already have some experience under their belt. For this tutorial, we will assume you have PostgreSQL correctly installed on Ubuntu. All of these steps were done using PostgreSQL 16 (development version) and Ubuntu 23.04. We’ll go over 3 different but…
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Using NGINX as a PostgreSQL Reverse Proxy and Load Balancer

Introduction This blog will go over the use cases of setting up NGINX (Engine X) as both a reverse proxy and load balancer for PostgreSQL. NGINX is an excellent feature-rich and open-source project that can help make an application more cohesive. It does this by exposing a single port to the user and proxy requests…
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