Raghavendra Rao: PostgreSQL Compressed Archive Logs in Windows
Many have blogged and offered glaringly on how to compress archive logs in PostgreSQL, I desire to share one of a short version from my end which's on Windows.If archive storage is concern, then you...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Modifications of APIs for bgworkers in Postgres 9.3
Just to make a short recall, Background worker is a new plug-in facility similar to hook, extension or FDW, but this time allowing to run customized code in a daemon process managed by the postmaster....
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: Documenting your PostgreSQL database
Just a few days ago I was surprised by what someone was doing with their database, and not in the typical horrifying travesty against mankind. Rather, it was a feature that while familiar with I'd...
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Guillaume LELARGE: Just a few hours left to submit your talks to pgconf.eu 2013
Quick blog post to remind you that you still have a few hours to submit your talks to pgconf.eu if you haven't done so yet. Read our call for paper, and submit your proposals to be part of an awesome...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Having no schema – is it possible?
As a user and advocate of PostgreSQL I have been wondering for a while, how this NoSQL hype can ever happen. I have been thinking about the idea of having no schema for a while and must admit that to...
View ArticleSzymon Guz: Merging JSONs in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL's JSON support is great, however there is one thing missing, and it will be missing in the next PostgreSQL release. It is not too easy to manipulate the values stored in such a JSON field....
View ArticleJim Mlodgenski: Writable Foreign Tables (with transactions!!!)
One of the great features coming in PostgreSQL 9.3 is writable foreign tables. Before 9.3, foreign tables were strictly read-only, which is still very cool, but it really just made PostgreSQL a tool...
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Dimitri Fontaine: OSCON, Portland, and PDXPUG
After spending an awesome week in San Francisco, CA I'm lucky enough to be spending another week in the USA, in Portand, OR. The main excuse for showing up here has been OSCON where I presented a talk...
View ArticleScott Mead: Simple CSV dumps from your Postgres database
Recently, I’ve spent a lot of time doing data shuffling. Some of it for me and my own ( mostly ) malevolent purposes, but mostly, the kind of stuff that data analysts want to slice and dice. I...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – Add SQL Standard WITH...
On 29th of July, Greg Stark committed patch: Add SQL Standard WITH ORDINALITY support for UNNEST (and any other SRF) Author: Andrew Gierth, David Fetter Reviewers: Dean Rasheed, Jeevan Chalke,...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – WITH CHECK OPTION support for...
On 18th of July, Stephen Frost committed patch: WITH CHECK OPTION support for auto-updatable VIEWs For simple views which are automatically updatable, this patch allows the user to specify what level...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: August meeting
When: 7-9pm Thu Aug 15, 2013Where: IovationWho: Mark WongWhat: YAMS Aren’t Sweet PotatoesWe’ll be moving back to our usual location at Iovation for our August meeting. Mark’s going to tell us about a...
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Josh Berkus: 9.4 Commitfest 1 Wrap-up
The first CommitFest of the 9.4 development cycle involved an unprecedented number of patch submissions. As of today, 9.4CF1 is still open because of one patch which apparently only Tom Lane can...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: What Are Timelines?
If you have used Continuous Archiving, Point-in-Time Recovery (PITR), or Log-Shipping Replication, you have probably heard of timelines. If you have ever looked in the Write-Ahead Log (WAL)...
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: Postgres Dollar Quoting
After my most recent post on documenting your database I had a colleague and friend chime in:@craigkerstiens You may want to mention for another post the generality of dollar quoting: it's not just for...
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Dimitri Fontaine: The Most Popular Pub Names
In his article titled The Most Popular Pub NamesRoss Lawley did show us how to perform some quite interesting geographic queries against MongoDB, using some nice Open Data found at the Open Street Map...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostGIS 2.1.0rc2 released
The 2.1.0rc2 release of PostGIS is now available.The PostGIS development team is proud to release a release candidate version of upcoming PostGIS 2.1.0. As befits a minor release, the focus is on speed...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: session_preload_libraries...
A PostgreSQL server allows to load into it customized libraries that can have multiple purposes inline with the possible plug-ins available in its architecture: extension modules, foreign data...
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Dimitri Fontaine: How far is the nearest pub?
In our recent article about The Most Popular Pub Names we did have a look at how to find the pubs nearby, but didn't compute the distance in between that pub and us. That's because how to compute a...
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: A look at Foreign Data Wrappers
There are two particular sets of features that continue to keep me very excited about the momentum of Postgres. And while PostgreSQL has had some great momentum in the past few years these features may...
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