Kirk Roybal: DFW PUG meetup for December 2013
Just a quick reminder that Dallas/Fort Worth PostgreSQL Users Group has a Meetup next week.What: Talk about PostgreSQL, foreign data wrappers and a DFW PGDay next yearWhen: Wednesday, December 4, 2013...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: November meeting recap
Last week, Eric Hanson showed off Aquameta’s “Spacebase”. Neat stuff! I’m still trying to wrap my head around some of it. Here are Eric’s slides and the pg_meta git repo. Watch for Aquameta’s release...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4: Be aware of behavior modification for SET and...
Here is something to be aware of if you have a couple of scripts relying on this behavior: ROLLBACK, ABORT and SET behavior have been changed in PostgreSQL 9.4. The modification has been introduced by...
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Fabien Coelho: DataFiller 1.1.3 is out!
I have just released version 1.1.3 of DataFiller.The Python script processes a PostgreSQL database schema file augmented with directives in comments, and generates random data matching this schema,...
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Fabien Coelho: DataFiller Tutorial
This tutorial introduces how to use DataFiller to fill a PostgreSQL database, say for testing functionalities and performances.Directives in commentsThe starting point of the script to generate test...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: PostgreSQL Replication Bug
There’s a very unpleasant replication issue in version 9.0.14, 9.1.10, 9.2.5, 9.3.0 and 9.3.1 of PostgreSQL. Be sure to read the linked wiki entry carefully; it can result in silent data corruption on...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: PostgreSQL: Finding Christmas presents
Christmas is approaching fast so I thought I’d give PostgreSQL users some inspiration when it comes to buying their Christmas presents. I assume that I am not the only one who has constant troubles...
View ArticleHadi Moshayedi: Linux memory manager and your big data
Disclaimer: We always assume that when we have an issue and think it's the operating system, 99% of the time, it turns out to be something else. We therefore caution against assuming that the problem...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: ActiveState make ActivePerl non-free
I have just received an email from ActiveState which contains the following:To be better equipped to answer support questions, particularly for customers using ActivePerl in production, we have changed...
View ArticleJim Mlodgenski: PostgreSQL Studio 1.1 is released
After a great initial release of PostgreSQL Studio, I received a lot of feedback from users. Most of it was very positive, but like any initial software release, there were some bugs. Some of the...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Security barriers: Cheating on the planner
Inspired by some previous posts on PostgreSQL security barriers I had the idea of abusing PostgreSQL security barriers (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/static/sql-createview.html) to cheat on the...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Why you need to apply today's update real soon
So, another month, another PostgreSQL update. This one is a lot more critical than most because it patches up to three data loss issues, depending on what version of PostgreSQL you're on and which...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: What does “Fix VACUUM’s tests to see whether it...
In release notes to latest release you can find: Fix VACUUM's tests to see whether it can update relfrozenxid (Andres Freund) In some cases VACUUM (either manual or autovacuum) could incorrectly...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Checksums! On December 10th
SFPUG will be hosting committer Jeff Davis talking about his 9.3 feature, data page checksums for PostgreSQL, and how to use them. As usual, we will have live video of his presentation. Presentation...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: About regression tests with Postgres plug-in modules
PostgreSQL is made to be pluggable. With many types of plug-in structures available directly in core that make the development of external tools or even modules that can be directly be uploaded in a...
View ArticleAndreas Kretschmer: PostgreSQL Replication, Zoltan Böszörmenyi and...
A short reviewThe book starts out by taking a cursory look at the theoretical foundations of database replication like the impact of communication delays caused by physical distance among other things....
View ArticleFrancisco Figueiredo Jr: Npgsql 2.0.14 released!
After a lot of time since last stable release, Npgsql 2.0.14 is out! This is a small bugfix release with fix for hangs which could happen when connecting to Postgresql 9.3. This bug appeared when...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: make_date, make_time functions
Years I miss a functionality for simple constructing dates and times from numeric fields.There was a more possibilities - one via to_date functionpostgres=# select to_date(2014::text || 10::text ||...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Meet your new NoSQL Database
... Postgres. You wanna document store? We got your document store, right here.Thanks to Craig Kersteins, I just learned about the pgREST project. This project turns PostgreSQL into a RESTful JSON...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Making random() deterministic
Basically the idea of a random generator is to generate random data – ideally a lot of random and non-deterministic data. However, sometimes it is necessary to be able to reproduce a random sequence of...
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