Richard Huxton: PgDay UK 2013 - slides from Richard Huxton
Cracking day in the countryside near Milton Keynes at PgDay UK this year. Thanks to everyone involved in making it good. Particularly, my congratulations to the organisers - it's a lot of work to put...
View ArticleDavid Christensen: PostgreSQL Autovacuum Issues In EOL Postgres
We recently had a web application shut down and start throwing PostgreSQL errors such as the following:ERROR: database is shut down to avoid wraparound data loss in database "postgres"HINT: Stop the...
View ArticleJim Mlodgenski: Fluming your PostgreSQL logs
With a default configuration of PostgreSQL, the information in the PostgreSQL logs is generally pretty small with some warnings and the occasional typo in psql. However, once you start tweaking the...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Dimitri talks about Skytools tonight at SFPUG
Tonight's SFPUG will feature visiting contributor Dimitri Fontaine talking about Skytools3. Assuming we can make it work, live video will be available on the SFPUG video channel starting at 7:20PM PDT.
View ArticleFrancisco Figueiredo Jr: SSLStream support added to Npgsql!
Yesterday I merged a pull request which adds support to .Net SSLStream in Npgsql.When Npgsql development started, in 2002, there was no SSL support in .net 1.0 and 1.1. It was added later in .net 2.0...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Talking at the SFPUG
Those days feel really lucky to me. I'm currently visiting friends and customers in San Francisco, and really enjoying my trip here! Of course Josh Berkus took the opportunity to organise a SFPUG...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: More info on the Buildfarm dashboard page
I'm fairly conservative about adding things to the Buildfarm dashboard page. Probably screens are mostly wider than they used to be back when the buildfarm was written, but I try to make sure there...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: REFRESH CONCURRENTLY a...
Postgres 9.3 has introduced the first features related to materialized views. The upcoming version of Postgres is adding many basic things like the possibility to create, manage and refresh a...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: In defense of being blunt and to the point
This is partly in response to Josh's blog entry Calling Bullsh*t in Open Source communities and Sarah Sharp's plea for No more verbal abuse. Normally I don't make these public statements but this time...
View ArticleRaghavendra Rao: ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/plpython2" - ERROR:...
Above error described on PG mailing as it failes to CREATE LANGUAGE plpython2u/plpython3u on PG9.3Beta.Error:postgres=# create language plpython3u;ERROR: could not access file "$libdir/plpython3": No...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – Add support for REFRESH...
On 16th of July, Kevin Grittner committed patch: Add support for REFRESH MATERIALIZED VIEW CONCURRENTLY. This allows reads to continue without any blocking while a REFRESH runs. The new data appears...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – Implement the FILTER clause...
On 17th of July, Noah Misch committed patch: Implement the FILTER clause for aggregate function calls. This is SQL-standard with a few extensions, namely support for subqueries and outer references...
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Alexey Klyukin: Getting a quick view of your PostgreSQL stats
Database health monitoring is important, especially if you are running your servers 24×7 and aiming for no downtime. There are a number of tools to show interesting database-related statistics in a...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: What Open Source developers can do for teachers: volunteer...
I keynoted the Computer Science Teacher’s Association annual conference on July 16th. I gave a talk about how open source developers can help teachers, and what I’ve learned about teaching programming...
View ArticlePierre Ducroquet: Review – “PostgreSQL Server Programming”
Two months ago, I reviewed the Packt Publishing book “Instant PostgreSQL Starter” . And two weeks ago, Packt Publishing offered me to review their latest PostgreSQL book, “PostgreSQL Server...
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Selena Deckelmann: What I mean when I talk about collaboration with teachers:...
I’ve given a few talks about my experience learning to teach. This is an edited version of my speaking notes for the keynote I gave at the Computer Science Teachers Association conference. This is the...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: What does a DBA do?
Someone was asking on IRC about what a DBA does, and I found this link. It's fairly Oracle-centric, understandably since it's from an Oracle FAQ, but still quite a good description of all the things a...
View ArticleSzymon Guz: Pretty Printing JSONs in PostgreSQL
Postgresql has huge support for JSON type, like I wrote some time ago. It also has some operators for converting data to and from JSON, and the JSON type itself is great for ensuring that the JSON...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Better info in Building with Mingw/Msys on Windows
I've improved the information on setting up a PostgreSQL development environment on Windows. It now covers building from git as well as from tarballs, and a bunch of other changes.
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Compiling and installing OpenSRF 2.2 on Centos 5.9
We do quite a bit of work for King County Library systems. The library system has 45 branches and runs the Open Source Evergreen ILS. One of the very smart things that the Evergreen project decided was...
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