Craig Kerstiens: Examining Postgres 9.4 - A first look
PostgreSQL is currently entering its final commit fest. While its still going, which means there could still be more great features to come, we can start to take a look at what you can expect from it...
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Dimitri Fontaine: PostgreSQL FOSDEM Conference
Back from the FODESM 2014 Conference, here's the slides I've been using for the Advanced Extension Use Cases talk I gave, based on the ongoing work to be found under the Tour of Extensions index in...
View ArticleIan Barwick: Importing CSV files to Firebird
Let's assume you have a CSV file which looks like this: $ head -5 /tmp/prod.csv 1,14,ACADEMY ACADEMY,PENELOPE GUINESS,25.99,0,1976 2,6,ACADEMY ACE,EWAN RICKMAN,20.99,0,6289 3,6,ACADEMY...
View ArticleGurjeet Singh: Introducing Postgres Hibernator
As it must have been obvious from my last post that I wasn’t really pleased by the amount of work needed to implement hibernation of Postgres shared-buffers, so I set out to implement a seamless...
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Paul Ramsey: Introspection Double-Shot
Davy Stevenson has a great post (everyone should write more, more often) on a small Twitter storm she precipitated and that I participated in. Like all sound-and-fury-signifying-nothing it was mostly...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Kicking the Donkey of PostgreSQL Replication
This is the title of a talk I am developing for the matured PostgreSQL Conference: PGConf NYC 2014 . Formerly a PgDay, this is now a full blown conference extending two days with three tracks. From all...
View ArticleDenish Patel: Postgres Security & PGConf NYC 2014
As per my knowledge, I haven’t heard or attended Postgres conference with dedicated “Security” track . Rarely, you find one or two talks about security over couple of Postgres conferences but never a...
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Yann Larrivee: ConFoo 2014 is at our door steps
ConFoo, the conference for web developers, is hosting its fifth edition. It will take place in Montreal at the Hilton Bonaventure on February 26th – 28th. These five days are packed with great...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Generate man and html with asciidoc in a Postgres extension
When writing an extension or module for PostgreSQL, having proper regressions tests and documentation are important things (with actually useful features!) to facilitate its acceptance. When it comes...
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Dinesh Kumar: Oracle Architecture
HiIs in't the nice way to represent the Oracle Architecture.Soon i will be posting the PostgreSQL architecture as well.దినేష్ కుమార్Dinesh Kumar
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: February meeting
When: 7-9pm Thu Feb 20, 2014Where: IovationWho: Dave KerrWhat: Monitoring Postgres at New RelicYou already know that New Relic can give you really good insight into your applications. But how about...
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John Graber: Colorizing The psql Prompt — A Guide
The shell can be a bland, boring thing to stare at day after day.So we shell dwellers spend an inordinate amount of time customizing our text based world. And there is no shortage of examples of...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG labs – Streaming Rep Saturday
Several years back, a new fellow on a ride with my bike club had a rather serious crash. I’ll spare you the gory details here1, other than to say that he was very lucky we had two Wilderness First...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Perl PostgreSQL driver DBD::Pg 3.0.0 released
Nuptse summit by Flickr user François BiancoI am happy to announce that version 3.0.0 of DBD::Pg, the Perl interface to Postgres, was released on February 3, 2014. This represents a major release,...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Generate man and html with asciidoc in a Postgres extension
When writing an extension or module for PostgreSQL, having proper regressions tests and documentation are important things (with actually useful features!) to facilitate its acceptance.When it comes to...
View ArticleChristian Kruse: Announcing repmgr 2.0RC1
Version 2.0RC1 of repmgr, Replication Manager for PostgreSQL clusters, has been released. This release introduces a new experimental feature, autofailover. With autofailover repmgr is able to...
View ArticleMerlin Moncure: Bitcoin is fine; Surrogate keys are the problem.
If you've been following the bitcoin saga you may have heard about Mt Gox's halting of currency withdrawals. Well, it's come out that due to their (completely preventable) improper transaction...
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Binod Nirvan: PostgreSQL Unit Testing Framework (plpgunit)
Plpgunit started out of curiosity on why a unit testing framework cannot be simple and easy to use? Unit testing frameworks for databases are not amongst the most widely available tools for developers...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: WITH ORDINALITY
PostgreSQL 9.4 is going to be shipped with a feature of the SQL standard called WITH ORDINALITY. It has been introduced by this commit:commit c62736cc37f6812d1ebb41ea5a86ffe60564a1f0 Author: Greg Stark...
View ArticleKeith Fiske: Partitioning With Custom Time Intervals
This has been something I’ve had in the works since I started on this extension, but it took a while to settle on the best method to use. The pre-determined time ranges for PG Partition Manager were...
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