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Selena Deckelmann: Thoughts on PostgreSQL 9.0 release
Something I wrote for a press contact last month that I wanted to share: We started the process toward 9.0 last year when we added new committers and invited many new people into the commitfest...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: How Can I Detect a Proxied SSL Request?
I’ve been thinking about how best to create two sections of the PGXN Manager site, one that requires authentication and is on SSL and one that’s public. So far, I’ve just had all the authenticated...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Upgrading old versions of Postgres
Old elephant courtesy of Photos8.com The recent release of Postgres 9.0.0 at the start of October 2010 was not the only big news from the project. Also released were versions 7.4.30 and 8.0.26, which,...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Do I get to attend a talk?
While at PgEast or PgWest I normally don't attend talks. Usually I am running around checking on rooms, making sure cameras are working or just generally recovering from yet another round of social...
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Shoaib Mir: (SLONY) cache lookup failed for type
Just been away from blogging for quite a while now as work had been keeping me extremly busy but finally got sometime today to blog about an interesting problem I saw with Slony yesterday… While at a...
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Shoaib Mir: Looking for libpq.so.4
I had always been building Slony from source, but for the first time I tried using the community version from “pgrpms.org”. I was using PostgreSQL version 8.3 so it was really easy to find the correct...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Evisceration: Learning from colorful mistakes
Most people are aware that we use Drupal for the PostgreSQL Conference. We are loud advocates of the platform, because it works -- mostly. In terms of being able to run a conference it is flexible...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Ignorance is bliss
I've been reading some of the comments on Josh Berkus' article on LWN about the transition to git. It's a subscription site, so unless you're a member you won't be able to view it until Oct 21st. A...
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Pavel Golub: 1-to-1 relationship in PostgreSQL
Today I received mail from one of my clients: I am using MicroOLAP Database Designer to develop a ERD for a PostGIS database. In my opinion one drawback to PgMDD is the lack of an explicit cardinality...
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: How to get your submission rejected from the MySQL conference
I’ve written before about how to get accepted to the conference. We want great technical submissions in a broad variety of topics, for databases well beyond MySQL. I wanted to post a quick list of...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: Quick tip for building Slony-I on AIX
I should have blogged this before, but better late than never. Continue reading "Quick tip for building Slony-I on AIX"
View ArticleJosh Berkus: 5 Minutes to Binary Replication
The official documentation on how to set up binary replication (or "hot standby") for version 9.0 are kind of daunting. So I thought I'd give you the 5 minute replication setup version: if you have a...
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Pavel Stehule: use a plpgsql well
Hello I found a following code on net. It's good example of bad code (written by PHP coder):01.CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION delete_data(IN data integer[]) RETURNS integer AS02.--DECLARATION OF...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Bookshelf additions
I rarely buy books on PostgreSQL, but I've made an exception for PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance by Greg Smith, and PostgreSQL 9 Administration Cookbook by Simon Riggs and Hannu Krosing, which I have...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest 2010 Keynote speaker is: Sun Microsystems Founder, Scott...
PostgreSQL Conference West (PgWest) 2010, the premiere PostgreSQL Conference for developers, users and decision makers is pleased to welcome Sun Microsystems founder, Scott McNealy as Key Note...
View ArticleChris Spotts: Why Oracle rownum just isn't LIMIT...*sigh*
There times (not often, but times) where its really useful to write something like... In Postgres I can do this: SELECT ... (SELECT some_value from table_bar bar where bar.foo_id = foo.foo_id order by...
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Robert Haas: Choosing a Datastore
In thinking about which database might be best for any particular job, it's easy to get lost in the PR. Advocates of traditional relational database systems like Oracle and PostgreSQL tend to focus on...
View ArticlePostgreSQL User Group Announcements: PDXPUG: October meeting this week
When: 7-9pm Thu Oct 21, 2010 Where: FreeGeek Who: Aurynn Shaw What: Postgres and Node.js Postgres and Node.js, a powerful event-driven programming environment paired with our favourite open-source...
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Pavel Golub: PostgresDAC-2.6.0: installer update
Since the last beta there were some problems with using Trial version of PostgresDAC under Rad Studio XE (Delphi XE and C++Builder XE), we fixed and updated installer on the site. New installer is...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Extensions: writing a patch for PostgreSQL
These days, thanks to my community oriented job, I'm working full time on a PostgreSQL patch to terminate basic support for extending SQL. First thing I want to share is that patching the backend code...
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