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Tatsuo Ishii: pgpool-II and postgres_fdw
PostgreSQL 9.3 beta1 is out. One of pgpool users tried pgpool with postgres_fdw and found interesting thing. So I looked into this to know what actually happened here.To test postgres_fdw, I created...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Done Learning Perl
As Postgres has moved away from a Unix-dominated environment since 2005, there has been decreasing use of Unix shell scripts and increased reliance on Perl, particularly for building Postgres from...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostGIS 2.1.0beta3 released
The PostGIS development team is proud to release a feature complete beta version of upcoming PostGIS 2.1.0. As befits a minor release, the focus is on speed improvements, more features, and bug fixes....
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: ‘Rollback’ exception added to Xact
I often find that I’m in the middle of a loop or something and discover an error. I want to exit the loop in a way that causes the database work I’ve done within it to be rolled back, but I don’t want...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: June meeting recap
We had a pretty good turnout for the lightning talks last week, despite competing with the OSBridge party.Final talk lineup: Gabrielle Roth: experiments with big .pgpass files Mark Wong: updates to...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Upcoming Conferences
My conference schedule has filled up through October — I have Brussels and England in July, and Maryland and Chicago in September. October brings Dublin and perhaps Moscow. One big conference I am...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Boston PostgreSQL Meetup September 10, 2013: PostGIS...
We'll be hosting the September 10th, 2013 PostgreSQL User Group meetup at Devonshire Sky Club (in the center of Boston Financial district and block away from city hall). This is the same venue we...
View ArticleGabriele Bartolini: How to safely change the “postgres” user password via “psql”
One of the most recurring questions I get from users that are starting their long and prosperous journey with PostgreSQL involves connecting with the “postgres” user.I personally use the “postgres”...
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Guillaume LELARGE: The handler and the validator functions of a FDW
I'm still working on my foreign data wrapper. Actually, I haven't written a lot of code. Instead, I've been reading the code of the other foreign data wrappers and it helped me a lot to understand many...
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Joel Jacobson: PgParty Stockholm
Friday the 28th of June we will be celebrating the awesomeness of PostgreSQL and having the pleasure of welcoming everyone who can exploit the guest list and manage to INSERT their name into it.Coding...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres devel: some psql tricks
psql, the command client delivered with postgres core, has many options and is in this way highly customizable. For example, you can use a ~/.psqlrc file to upload automatically some customized...
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Amit Langote: PostgreSQL Statistics: pg_statistic and pg_stat(io)_*
We hear about two kinds of statistics in PostgreSQL:PostgreSQL planner statistics (pg_statistic catalog/pg_stats view), andPostgreSQL server activity statistics (pg_stat(io)_* views)It is important to...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: How Managers View Postgres
Those of us who focus on the Postgres community are well aware of how developers and administrators view Postgres — their enthusiasm helps generate significant demand for Postgres. What...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Giving credit to reviewers
This is a lightly edited version of an email I sent to pgsql-hackers today.Josh Berkus asked:> How should reviewers get credited in the release notes?Without getting into how the community might...
View ArticleFrancisco Figueiredo Jr: Performance improvements when creating...
Recently, I applied a patch from Kevin Pullin which will improve the performance of programs using Npgsql. This patch reduces significantly the time to create new NpgsqlConnection objects. This...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Salesforce Abandoning Postgres?
Postgres adoption news always generates energetic community discussion. When Salesforceannounced last year that they wanted to hire 40-50 people for a huge Postgres project, the community and the press...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Salesforce, PostgreSQL and Bruce Momjian
Given Bruce's blog post today, I wanted to make a few things clear which might not be at all clear to folks outside our project:Bruce is indulging in personal speculation, not speaking for the core...
View ArticleFrancisco Figueiredo Jr: Npgsql 2.0.13 beta1 released!
Today we released the first beta of Npgsql 2.0.13! This new beta release had a lot of bugs fixed and initial support for Entity Framework 6! More information about how to use Entity framework 6 with...
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gabrielle roth: Postgres 9.3 – my picks
There’s a lot to be excited about in the upcoming 9.3 release. Here are my top 3: 3. -R option for pgbasebackup to creates a recovery.conf file for you! One less step to remember. 2. \watch command for...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Make the Most ouf of SQL
Tonight I had the pleasure to present a talk at the Dublin PostgreSQL User Group using remote technologies. The talk is about how to make the most ouf of PostgreSQL when using SQL as a developer, and...
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