Dimitri Fontaine: pgcopydb v0.18
PostgreSQL Planet1mo4 min read
Hot off the press: pgcopydb v0.18 is out! It’s the biggest release the project has had — 88 commits since v0.17, which shipped in August 2024. I took a break from my Open Source responsibilities for a while, because I was lacking employer support to make it happen. What is pgcopydb pgcopydb copies a PostgreSQL database to another PostgreSQL server, as fast as possible when physical file copy isn’t available. It parallelises the COPY across all tables simultaneously, builds indexes in parallel after data is loaded, and supports Change Data Capture via logical replication for minimal-downtime mi
