Keith Fiske: PostgreSQL Partition Manager
I’ve finally gotten a lot of the planned features implemented for another extension, so it’s about time I wrote a blog post on it. One of the bigger features missing from PostgreSQL that some other...
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Dimitri Fontaine: FOSDEM
This year's FOSDEM has been a great edition, in particular the FOSDEM PGDAY 2013 was a great way to begin a 3 days marathon of talking about PostgreSQL with people not only from our community but also...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: First steps with pgbouncer, how to set and run it
pgbouncer is a connection pooling utility that can be plugged on top of a PostgreSQL server. It can be used to limit the maximum number of connections on server side by managing a pool of idle...
View ArticleRaghavendra Rao: Improvements in Slony-I 2.2.0beta
Thanks to Slony-I team for releasing Slony-I 2.2.0Beta with many enhancements on key areas. Few are mentioned here:Event capturing protocol changed for performance (sl_log_1 / sl_log_2):Earlier...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Connection Pooling vs. Persistent Connections
The distinction between connection pooling and persistent connections recently came up again with a client, and I realized that there's a significant amount of confusion in the industry due to...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Kyoto Tycoon FDW for Postgres
The cool folks at Cloudflare, next-generation CDN for web applications, have created a Foreign Data Wrapper (FDW) for Kyoto Tyrant. This lets them distribute cache content across their network while...
View ArticleTatsuo Ishii: pgpool-II new minor versions are out!
pgpool-II new minor versions are out. pgpool-II is a connection pooling/clustering tool for PostgreSQL ONLY. This time we released:3.2.5 (the latest stable version)3.1.83.0.12These versions are...
View ArticleJim Mlodgenski: HDFS for PostgreSQL Backups
On several occasions, I’ve been talking with groups of PostgreSQL users and the question comes up, “If I use PostgreSQL, why would I want to use Hadoop?” There are many answers and the question is...
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Denish Patel: Postgres 9.2: monitoring temp files generation in real time
With other great new features, PostgreSQL 9.2 makes DBAs life easy by providing more metrics in statistics collector views. Out of those , pg_stat_database caught my eyes because it provides a lot...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: two date functions
More times I needed a function that returns specific date of current years or specific date of current month.I wrote two functions that solve this request:CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: monetdb_fdw: PostgreSQL meets column store. Finally.
As you may know, FDW is one of the advantages of PostgreSQL. There are variety of FDWs to federate different data sources (including PostgreSQL itself) with PostgreSQL. And also, you may know everyone...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Back from CHAR(13)
Last week was held the CHAR(13) conference in a great venue in the UK countryside. Not only did we discover UK under good weather conditions and some local beers, we also did share a lot of good ideas!...
View ArticleFrancisco Figueiredo Jr: 2.0.13-beta1 Nuget packages available!
After a long delay, Nuget packages for 2.0.13-beta1 are finally available!Since they are beta, you will need to use a command line parameter when installing this package.According to Nuget, you will...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres module highlight: pg_rewind, to quickly recycle a...
Managing wisely server resources has always been a critical matter for all kinds of systems. A lack of resource would mean a loss of performance and scalability for applications running on those...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Accidental DBA and More at OSCON next week
O'Reilly OSCON is next week, and I'll be attending for the first time since 2009. I'll be teaching the Accidental DBA tutorial, for which I've just uploaded the preparation materials. There's also...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Calling Bullsh*t in Open Source communities
We are all human. We all lose our temper. We all have our moments of, "I really wish I could take that back". Of course not if you are not Linus Torvalds. Now everyone knows that Linus has a temper,...
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gabrielle roth: OSCON events + July meeting next week!
Next week is OSCON here in Portland.Postgres-related talks:The Accidental DBA TutorialLarge Scale MySQL Migration to PostgreSQLPostgreSQL as a Non-SQL DatabaseWe’ll have a booth set up in the Open...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: pgRouting 2.0.0rc1 and PostGIS 2.1.0rc1
This past day, the pgRouting development team released pgRouting 2.0.0 RC1 just steps after PostGIS 2.1.0 rc1. Last week PostGIS project released RC1 of upcoming 2.1.0 PostGIS 2.1.0 RC1.Now only thing...
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David Wheeler: Requiring Reworked Sqitch Changes
I recently discovered a mildly annoying bug in Sqitch, the Git-inspired database schema change management app I’ve been working on for the past year. One of its key features is the ability to “rework”...
View ArticlePeter Eisentraut: Testing PostgreSQL extensions on Travis CI
I have cobbled together some scripts to be able to test PostgreSQL extensions against multiple PostgreSQL major versions on Travis CI. (This requires that the extension is hosted on GitHub.) See the...
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