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Government of Guernsey updates on progress and closure of EPR programme
The Committee for Health and Social Care in Guernsey has shared updates on its EPR programme, highlighting outcomes from phase one and a decision to “transition towards closure” in favour of a rolling programme of improvement, requiring business justification and funding approval. “These are difficult updates, but it is important […]
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…