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Dimitri Fontaine: Open World Forum 2013
Have you heard about the Open World Forum conference that takes place in Paris, October 3-5, 2013? I'll be presenting a talk about PostgreSQL in the track NewSQL: Managing large data sets with...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Storing network information
Given my experience in my daily work as a PostgreSQL professional I have the impression that most people are still not aware of the fact that PostgreSQL can handle IP addresses – and network...
View ArticleOleg Bartunov: Historical letters
I have a big and non-organized archive of messages started from 198X ! Sometimes, I find very interesting messages. I decided to publish some of them. Today I post message about how PostgreSQL got...
View ArticleGreg Smith: Making make make PostgreSQL 9.3 on FreeBSD 8.2
Building PostgreSQL on UNIX-like systems from source code can be hard the first time. But often, once you extract the code it only takes three steps common to many C programs:./configure make make...
View ArticleDenish Patel: Scaling Postgres PostgresOpen 2013 presentation
Last week, I deliverd a presentation on “Scaling Postgres” at PostgresOpen 2013. As I promised, here is the slides deck:Scaling postgres from Denish Patel
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Slides from Postgres Open - 9.3 JSON and Blackhole FDW
Here are the slides from my talk at Postgres Open about JSON in Postgres 9.3I also reprised my pgCon lightning talk about the Blackhole Foreign Data Wrapper.
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: NC Triangle PUG here we go
Quite by chance I and two other people from the NC Triangle area (Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and surrounds) went to the 2ndQuadrant sponsored dinner (thanks guys) at Postgres Open on Monday night....
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Interesting new technologies
A couple of things I heard about at Postgres Open that deserve closer inspection are Docker, a nice container toolkit, leveraging among other things Linux LXC, and OpenShift, another containerization...
View ArticleTatsuo Ishii: Pgpool-II 3.3 released
Finaly we released new major release: pgpool-II 3.3.This version focuses on enhancing "watchdog" module of pgpool-II. It is in chage of avoiding the single point of failure caused by pgpool-II itself....
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:3.3.1 (the latest stable version)3.2.63.1.93.0.13These versions fix...
View ArticleTatsuo Ishii: Health check parameters
Recently I got questions on pgpool-II's health check parameters. In this article I will try to explain them."Health check" is a term used in pgpool-II. Pgpool-II occasionally checks if PostgreSQL is...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Free VMs for Reviewers
In case you somehow missed it, the second CommitFest for PostgreSQL 9.4 development is underway. While we don't have quite as many patches in the queue as we had last time, we have quite a few, and...
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gabrielle roth: September Meeting Recap + Upcoming Events
Last week’s meeting will go down in PDXPUG history alongside such classics as Normalization Puppet Theater and the ever-popular Relational Algebra Cocktail Parties.I’d just returned from PgOpen[1],...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Importing stock market data into PostgreSQL
Many people I know are doing some private stock market investment. Some of them just want to become rich people – some are saving for their retirements and some are just doing it for fun. What I have...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: data checksum switch as a...
Postgres 9.3 has introduced data checksums at the data page level, using a CRC-16 algorithm for the checksum calculation. With 9.3, the only way to check if an existing server has checksums enabled was...
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Steve Singer: PostgreSQL & Puppet
Last week I was in Chicago giving a talk at PostgresOpen on managing PostgreSQL with puppet. The talk was well attended and appears to have been well received.Puppet is configuration management...
View ArticleChris Travers: What is coming in LedgerSMB 1.4?
I figure it is a good time to review the changes that are going into 1.4 and discuss where things are going, where expected features have changed, and the like.Framework Changes1.4 moves all reports...
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Oleg Bartunov: What's wrong with postgis ?
During our work on conference talk about spatial data (Bartunov, Korotkov and Karpov) we tested performance of radial query from 10^8 points on sphere using several available algorithms - q3c, pgsphere...
View ArticlePeter Eisentraut: Design by committee
Design by committee is usually a term of abuse, but sometimes it's perhaps not the worst alternative. At the opposite end of the spectrum, there is design by disconnected individuals. That is how you...
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Amit Langote: How much of your pgbench test data is in the OS disk cache...
Following little script which utilizes linux-fincore hosted here gives you the OS disk cache resident pages of the tables in your pgbench database, the one used in a typical pgbench test.echo...
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