A Look Back at PGDay.Austria 2025: Great Location & Even Greater Talks!
On September 4th, 2025, the PostgreSQL community gathered in Vienna for a memorable and skillful prepared event: PGDay Austria 2025. Proventa AG was at the event as a Gold sponsor showing our commitment to PostgreSQL and its thriving community. As the event has now come to a close, it’s time to reflect on the [...]
Proventa Achieves ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Certification – Structured Information Security for the Digital Age
Information security is no longer just an IT concern — it’s a strategic imperative. As of July 25, 2025, Proventa AG has been officially certified under ISO/IEC 27001:2022, one of the most widely recognized international standards for effective Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). What is covered by the certification? The scope includes our full-service offering: [...]
How to Manage PostgreSQL Clusters with GitOps using CloudNativePG and ArgoCD
At PGConf.de in Berlin this year, I had the pleasure of presenting on the powerful combination of CloudNativePG and GitOps. For those who couldn't attend — or anyone looking to streamline their PostgreSQL cluster management — this blog post shows how to apply GitOps principles with CloudNativePG for a more efficient and reliable database [...]
Reflections on PGConf.DE 2025 – A Community Stronger Than Ever
Last week, we had the pleasure of attending PGConf.DE 2025 in Berlin as a Platinum Sponsor – and what a conference it was! As always, the German PostgreSQL community came together with energy, expertise, and enthusiasm. This year's event was particularly special, as it marked a significant milestone in the growth and maturity of [...]
Tutorial: Database load testing using HammerDB
HammerDB is an open source database benchmarking software that supports PostgreSQL, Microsoft SQL Server, IBM Db2, Oracle, MariaDB, and MySQL, as well as CLI, local GUI, and a web browser GUI. The benchmarks used by HammerDB, TPROC-C and TPROC-H, are based on the widely used TPC-C- and TPC-H benchmarks. Test results are reported in [...]
Auditing in PostgreSQL (Part 2)
Building on the first blog entry in the series, Auditing in PostgreSQL, it is time to extend the audit features used. This blog entry introduces the extension pgauditlogtofile, which separates the audit log trail from the default PostgreSQL log into a dedicated file. It is common practice in many companies to separate the audit [...]