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Heroku is launching a new database backup solution. Heroku PG Backups is available immediately and is the officially supported and recommended method of backing up your PostgreSQL database on Heroku.

PG Backups is a significant architectural improvement over Bundles and is designed to handle the large-scale, production databases that are being deployed to Heroku today. In addition to these backend improvements, PG Backups offers several new features:

• Backups are captured using pg_dump’s -Fc compressed format.
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Today Heroku is releasing an update to our dedicated database service. Heroku PostgreSQL provides an improved upgrade path for our users as their applications grow by offering new features, new plans, and instant provisioning.

Product Improvements

• Direct database connectivity through psql (the Postgres command-line tool) or libpq (the Postgres client library). Direct connectivity makes it easier to introspect the database directly and run ad-hoc queries. It also enables complex, multi-application architectures with shared data stores.
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Tuesday was not a good day for Heroku and as a result it was not a good day for our customers. I want to take the time to explain what happened, how we addressed the problem, and what we’re doing in the future to keep it from happening again.

Over the past few weeks we have seen unprecedented growth in the rate of new applications being added to the platform. This growth has exacerbated a …