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Dimitri Fontaine: Migrating Sakila from MySQL to PostgreSQL
As presented at the PostgreSQL Conference Europe the new version of pgloader is now able to fully migrate a MySQL database, including discovering the schema, casting data types, transforming data and...
View ArticleChris Travers: On CPAN, Community, and P: A Case Study in What Not to Do
I am going to try to do this piece as respectfully as I can. I understand people put a lot of work into developing things and they submit them, and when they get panned, it can be difficult. At the...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: How I write queries using psql
In this series of posts about using Postgres every day. The last post was about \ commands in psql.I’m now going to share in a series of posts my workflow for writing queries, and some of the things...
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Andreas Scherbaum: FOSDEM PGDay and Devroom 2014 - Announcement & Call for...
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumFOSDEM PGDay is a one day conference that will be held ahead of FOSDEM in Brussels, Belgium, on Jan 31st, 2014. This will be a one-day focused PostgreSQL event, with a single...
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Jan Mussler: PGConf EU/DE 2013 recap and slides
The PGConf “marathon” 2013 is over, two weeks filled with traveling are over. First step Dublin, Ireland followed up by the small town of Oberhausen, Germany. We followed presentations, exchanged...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Everyday Postgres: Tuning a brand-new server (the...
Server tuning is a topic that consumes many books, blog posts and wiki pages.Below is some practical advice for getting low-hanging fruit out of the way if you’re new to tuning Postgres and just want...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Postgres now offered in Amazon RDS
The cat is finally out of the bag! Amazon Relational Database Service is offering PostgreSQL!This is an incredibly exciting development to have Postgres as easily deployable in AWS as MySQL, Oracle or...
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ: Useful PostgreSQL Extensions
Here is the slides of my presentation at PostgreSQL Europe 2013 this year: Useful PostgreSQL Extensions. Hope you'll find it useful
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Josh Berkus: First Look at PostgreSQL RDS on Amazon
By now a lot of you have heard about the new Postgres RDS on Amazon Web Services. This is something I've been anticipating for quite a while, so I decided to log in and try it out right away. Summary...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: A big news day
Of course the biggest news of the day is that Amazon has announced immediate support for Postgres on their RDS service.I have taken this for a very short spin, and it looks like it works as I...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Operator classes explained
After my morning session in Dublin some people asked me to share the codes of an operator class I have created for demo reasons. This posting is supposed to cover those codes. What is an operator...
View ArticleJeff Frost: Ubuntu has released a 3.11.0 kernel for 12.04 LTS!
This one is for those of you compiling a custom kernel or staying on 10.04 LTS because of this issue on database servers in the 3.x kernels: https://lkml.org/lkml/2012/10/9/210Ubuntu has released...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: COPY TO/FROM PROGRAM
Postgres 9.3 brings a new option for COPY allowing to pipe data with an external program, both in input and output. This feature has been added in the following commit: commit...
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Paul Ramsey: BC Electoral Redistribution and Population Dispersion
I've been asked by my technical readers to stop writing so much about politics, but I cannot help myself, and this week I have the perfect opportunity to apply my technical skills to a local political...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Import fixed width data with pgloader
A long time ago we talked about how to Import fixed width data with pgloader, following up on other stories still online at Postgres OnLine Journal and on David Fetter's blog. Back then, I showed that...
View Articlerobert berry: Working in the background for fun and profit
Working in the background for fun and profitNov 18, 2013 – PortlandThe background worker facility is one of those cool open ended features in Postgre 9.3 with many possibilities. This post shares some...
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: The best Postgres feature you're not using – CTEs aka WITH...
SQL by default isn't typically friendly to dive into, and especially so if you're reading someone else's already created queries. For some reason most people throw out principles we follow in other...
View ArticleJosh Williams: Asynchronous Page Switches with Django
Now that the newly rebuilt http://www.endpoint.com/ website is up and running, you may have noticed it does something fancy: internal links within the site are fetched in the background, and the page...
View ArticleCraig Ringer: PostgreSQL guts: What is “resjunk”?
I’m delving into the PostgreSQL parser, query rewriter and query planner at the moment, as part of work on row-level security for the AXLE project. As I’ve noticed that there’s some great documentation...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: effective_cache_size: Better set it right
PostgreSQL knows a parameter called effective_cache_size. To many this is one of the most mysterious settings in the entire PostgreSQL config. Maybe this is the core reason why many people just...
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