East and West Midlands Ambulance Services collaboration agreement looks to emerging opportunities and next steps
East Midlands Ambulance Service NHS Trust has outlined progress, emerging opportunities, and next steps from its digital collaboration agreement with West Midlands Ambulance Service. Having undertaken a review of IT contracts at both trusts, the board acknowledges immediate savings from major services are “likely to be limited” as a result […]
Stefan Fercot: pgBackRest and PostgreSQL failover: why archive_mode matters
A recent question on the community channels described a difficult situation: a standby had been promoted with archive_mode=off, and restarting the new primary was something the team wanted to avoid. Could they enable archiving on a downstream standby and take a pgBackRest backup from there instead? Their attempt failed with archive_mode must be enabled, even with archive-mode-check=n. Removing the checks…