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Nouvelle-Calédonie · Nouméa · PostgreSQL · UTC+11

PostgreSQL consultancy and support for New Caledonia

Senior PostgreSQL consultants an hour from your working day, reachable on WhatsApp. High availability, replication, tuning, upgrades and recovery for the organisations running New Caledonia’s critical systems.

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PostgreSQL expertise, an hour away

New Caledonia runs the same shape of estate as any small, concentrated economy: a handful of platforms that a great many people depend on, in telecommunications, banking, utilities, mining and government. What is less common is the database underneath them. Where much of the Pacific defaults to Microsoft SQL Server, open-source databases — PostgreSQL above all — are far better represented across French-speaking public sector and industry.

That changes who can help. A provider whose depth is in SQL Server can keep a PostgreSQL estate running; it is a different thing from having designed replication topologies, tuned autovacuum on a large table, recovered a cluster to a point in time, or planned a major-version upgrade that cannot be rolled back the easy way.

Nouméa is on UTC+11. That is the same clock as Sydney and Melbourne through the Australian summer and one hour ahead of them for the rest of the year — the closest working-day overlap of any market Onsys serves outside Australia itself. An incident raised at nine in the morning in Nouméa reaches a consultant who is already at their desk.

What we do on PostgreSQL

The work, specifically

Not "we support PostgreSQL". These are the engagements that actually come up, and each one is something we have built or recovered on a production estate.

  • Streaming replication and physical standbys, with the failover rehearsed rather than assumed
  • High availability with automatic promotion, and a connection layer that follows the primary when it moves
  • Point-in-time recovery: continuous WAL archiving, retention that reaches back to the oldest usable backup, and a restore somebody has actually performed
  • Performance work — query plans, indexing, autovacuum and bloat, connection pooling, and the configuration defaults nobody revisited after go-live
  • Major-version upgrades, planned and tested against a restored copy before the change window opens
  • Migrations onto PostgreSQL from Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL, scoped against what the application actually uses rather than against the schema alone
  • EDB Postgres where the estate is on the enterprise distribution
  • Monitoring and alerting that tells you replication has stopped before a user does

Two things worth saying before you call

We work in English. New Caledonia is a French-speaking territory and Onsys does not deliver in French. In our experience the technical conversation — replication lag, WAL, query plans, recovery targets — carries across in English with engineers who work with these tools daily, because the vocabulary is already English. The commercial conversation is a fair question to raise early, and we would rather you raised it than discovered it mid-engagement.

We are not in Nouméa. Onsys is an Australian practice and the work is remote, which is how specialist database work is delivered everywhere — the alternative is an in-house DBA, not a local one. What you get instead of proximity is a guaranteed response time, a named consultant who knows your estate, and published prices.

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The quickest way to reach a database consultant from New Caledonia. Tell us what you are running and what is worrying you; if it is not something we should take on, we will say so.

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Common questions

Yes. PostgreSQL is the lead platform for this market: replication and standbys, high availability with automatic promotion, point-in-time recovery, performance and autovacuum tuning, major-version upgrades, and migrations onto PostgreSQL from Oracle, SQL Server or MySQL. EDB Postgres is covered where the estate runs the enterprise distribution. Support is delivered remotely from Australia under the published response SLAs.

New Caledonia is UTC+11, which is the same clock as Sydney and Melbourne during the Australian summer and one hour ahead for the rest of the year. It is the closest working-day overlap of any market Onsys serves outside Australia, so a question raised first thing in Nouméa reaches a consultant who is already working. Cover is 24/7 on every monthly plan regardless.

Yes, and for New Caledonia it is the channel we would suggest first. WhatsApp avoids international call costs and gives both sides a written record of what was said, which matters when the conversation is about version numbers and error messages. Phone and email work too, and once an engagement starts you get a direct line to the consultant who knows your estate.

No. Onsys works in English, and we would rather say so here than let you find out during an engagement. The technical vocabulary of PostgreSQL is already English, so in practice the engineering conversation carries across; whether that is acceptable for the commercial and reporting side is a reasonable question to settle before you commit to anything.

Onsys DBAs based in Australia, and only them. No offshore engineer holds credentials to a client database environment, on any plan. Access is through individually named accounts rather than shared credentials, every session is logged, we tell you which engineers hold access before you sign, and it is revoked the day an engagement ends.