David E. Wheeler: Fundraising Update
This project started when I wrote up the specification and got general approval from pgsql-hackers. Then, at PGCon, it made the list of development priorities for PostgreSQL 9.1 (when I was then...
View ArticlePostgreSQL User Group Announcements: PDXPUG August Meeting in two weeks
When: 7pm Aug 19th Where: FreeGeek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue What: PL/Parrot and PL/Perl6 - Parrots and Butterflies in your Database Who: Jonathan "Duke" Leto PL/Parrot is the Parrot Virtual Machine,...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Querying the Catalog to plan an upgrade
Some user on IRC was reading the releases notes in order to plan for a minor upgrade of his 8.3.3 installation, and was puzzled about potential needs for rebuilding GIST indexes. That's from the 8.3.5...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: How to make sure you will not get any help on IRC
Some guy came to #postgresql today. Described his problem, got additional question, and then … well .. I wouldn’t believe if it didn’t happen to me. Here is log of on channel conversation: 17:52 <...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: debian packaging PostgreSQL extensions
In trying to help an extension debian packaging effort, I've once again proposed to handle it. That's because I now begin to know how to do it, as you can see in my package overview page at debian QA...
View ArticleTom Copeland: Rails and PostgreSQL job at elevenlearning.com
Saw this ad for a Rails and PostgreSQL job at Eleven Learning. The company name is a "Spinal Tap" reference... well played.
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Tail_n_mail and the log_line_prefix curse
span{font-family:sans-serif;}span.c{color:red;}span.t{font-family:sans-serif;color:green;}span.o{font-family:sans-serif;color:blue;} One of the problems I had when writing tail_n_mail (a program that...
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Pavel Golub: New TPSQLBoxField class in PostgresDAC-2.6.0
In the previous post I wrote about TPSQLPointField class introduced in the upcoming PostgresDAC v2.6.0. Today let me describe TPSQLBoxField which encapsulates box PostgreSQL geometric type. Some...
View ArticlePostgreSQL User Group Announcements: Seapug (August) - Natural Keys vs...
Welcome to the Seattle Postgres Users Group (SEAPUG) On August 10th at 7PM, Steve Richfield will be doing a talk on Natural Keys vs Synthetic Keys. Steve will be talking about the good and bad of...
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Robert Haas: Git is Coming to PostgreSQL
As discussed at the PGCon 2010 Developer Meeting, PostgreSQL is scheduled to adopt git as its version control system some time in the next few weeks. Andrew Dunstan, who maintains the PostgreSQL build...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News August 8th 2010
Bruce Momjian's will walk through PostgreSQL 9.0 at the next NYC PostgreSQL Meetup, August 10th at 6:00 pm. RSVP below: http://www.meetup.com/postgresql-3/calendar/14310923/
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.1 – Reduced lock levels for ALTER...
On 28th of July, Simon Riggs committed patch which: Log Message: ----------- Reduce lock levels of CREATE TRIGGER and some ALTER TABLE, CREATE RULE actions. Avoid hard-coding lockmode used for many...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Speaking in New York City
I am speaking at the New York PostgreSQL Meetup Group this Tuesday about the new features in Postgres 9.0. (It will be similar to a webcast I did a few months ago.) I have a few interesting conferences...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Planning for when the git repo goes live
The cutover is due to happen soon, Currently I have the following setup: On Fedora 6: a CVS mirror and a buildfarm animal, dungbeetle that uses it. This machine will retire some time in the next few...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.1 – Recognize functional...
Yesterday (August, 7th), Tom Lane committed: Log Message: ----------- Recognize functional dependency on primary keys. This allows a table's other columns to be referenced without listing them in GROUP...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Why Is standard_conforming_strings Enabled in Postgres 9.1?
Hubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski already wrote a clear blog entry explaining the effect of enabling standard_conforming_strings in Postgres 9.1. My blog entry explains why it will be changed in Postgres...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Editing constants in constraints
We're using constants in some constraints here, for example in cases where several servers are replicating to the same federating one: each origin server has his own schema, and all is replicated...
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David Wheeler: Managing Key/Value Pairs in PostgreSQL
Let's say that you've been following the latest research in key/value data storage and are interested in managing such data in a PostgreSQL database. You want to have functions to store and retrieve...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: Financial Support for United States PostgreSQL...
JD Wrote: As the United States PostgreSQL Association continues to grow we are extending the services we provide to our members and the PostgreSQL.Org community in the United States. I am pleased to...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: BuildFarm Client release 4.1 Announcement
There is a new release of the buildfarm client. There are no new features, but some cleanup and bug fixes. The code can be downloaded from pgFoundry Here are the release notes / change logs: Use git...
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