Pavel Golub: Dump and restore of PostgreSQL: version compatibility FAQ
Many newbies are confused about how PostgreSQL dump and restore work. And even more questions appeared about version mismatches of the server itself and tools used. After fresh PostgresDAC release...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Everyday Postgres: INSERT with SELECT
This is a continuation of a series of posts about how I use Postgres everyday.One of the most pleasant aspects of working with Postgres is coming across features that save me lots of typing. Whenever I...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: PgPool Improves Reliability
Originally released in 2006, pgpool-II is the Swiss Army Knife of Postgres middleware tools, allowing connection pooling, replication, load balancing, and parallel query. With the ascendency of...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: new border styles for psql
A few years ago I wrote a first patch that add a new styles of unicode table borders in psql.Today I release new patch for 9.3 with new two styles. Download patch from...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – Add tab completion for \pset...
On 19th of November, Fujii Masao committed patch: Add tab completion for \pset in psql. Pavel Stehule, reviewed by Ian Lawrence Barwick psql, my favorite database client has (at the moment) 16...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: PostGIS Day Tommorrow
The PostGIS project is throwing a "PostGIS Day" online tommorrow. As part of this, I will be on a panel with Paul Ramsey, Stephen Mather and Bborie Park at 10am PST tommorrow (Thursday) on Google...
View ArticleChris Travers: Writing Reports in LedgerSMB 1.4: (Mostly-) Declarative Perl...
So far we have talked about getting data in, and interacting with the database. Now we will talk about the largest of the modules and cover workflow scripts in relation with this stage,At this point...
View ArticleSzymon Guz: Copying Rows Between PostgreSQL Databases
A recurring questions is: ‘how can I copy a couple of rows from one database to another’? People try to set up some replication, or dump entire database, however the solution is pretty...
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: PGConf.EU 2013 feedback results
It seems I blog a lot more about conferences than about technology these days, and that sometimes makes me a bit sad. Not because I blog too much about the conferences, but that I don't blog enough...
View ArticleAbdul Yadi: PostgreSQL based Project Wins Gold Award in ASEAN ICT Award 2013
November 2013 is a great month for Datatrans Informatika and Systran Electronics Zone. “Smartcard for Frequent Traveler” (SFFT), a PostgreSQL based project presented by the two companies (located at...
View ArticleJeff Frost: Ubuntu 3.11.0 kernel not as stable as hoped
As I mentioned in my previous post, Ubuntu recently released a 3.11.0 kernel for Precise. Unfortunately, while it appeared stable during a long burn-in process with various pgbench workloads and scale...
View ArticleSzymon Guz: Using Javascript in PostgreSQL
This time I will describe two things: installing a new extension using pgxn and using Javascript for writing a PostgreSQL stored procedure.The last time I was describing a couple of nice features of...
View ArticleDenish Patel: Choosing the right database: Understanding your options
Yesterday, SDTimes published my article “Choosing the right database: Understanding your options” . As the name suggests, the article talks about understanding available options for selecting the right...
View ArticleJignesh Shah: Feedback from my sesion at PgConfEU
I had recently done a session at PgConf.EU.It was interesting and encouraging to see the feedback from it.Thanks to the people who took time to give the feedback. Session feedback: My experience with...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Visualizing Postgres Feature Growth
As the creator of the initial major release notes, I am aware of the many changes that go into every release. What I often cannot see is the pattern of feature growth that the Postgres community...
View ArticleChris Travers: Reporting in LedgerSMB 1.4: Part 5, Conclusions
I hope many of you have enjoyed this series. We've tried hard to avoid inner platform syndrome here by making reporting something that a developer does.Skills Required to Write Basic ReportsThe...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – Support multi-argument...
On 22nd of November, Tom Lane committed patch: Support multi-argument UNNEST(), and TABLE() syntax for multiple functions. This patch adds the ability to write TABLE( function1(), function2(), ...)...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: TABLE for multiple functions...
A new feature making possible to specify multiple functions with TABLE inside a FROM clause has made its way in Postgres. The same commit adds support for unnest with multiple arguments as well. commit...
View ArticleDavid Fetter: Conference Feedback for PGConf.EU 2013
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View ArticleCady Motyka: Hive, Postgres, and Hadoop Foreign Data Wrapper Video Tutorial
This demo shows how to run an example in BigSQL that uses Hive, Hadoop, PostgreSQL, and the Hadoop Foreign Data Wrapper to leverage the power of Hadoop from within PostgreSQL. This tutorial uses BigSQL...
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