Hubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – auto_explain: Add logging of...
On 4th of March, Alvaro Herrera committed patch: auto_explain: Add logging of trigger execution Author: Kyotaro HORIGUCHI Reviewed-by: Jaime Casanova The change is pretty simple, and for most people...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Physical slots for replication
Replication slots is a new feature of PostgreSQL 9.4 that has been introduced by this commit:commit 858ec11858a914d4c380971985709b6d6b7dd6fc Author: Robert Haas <rhaas@postgresql.org> Date: Fri...
View ArticleRobert Haas: write scalability for UPDATE operations
Yesterday, Heikki Linnakangas committed this patch:commit a3115f0d9ec1ac93b82156535dc00b10172a4fe7Author: Heikki Linnakangas Date: Wed Mar 12 22:46:04 2014 +0200 Only WAL-log the modified portion...
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gabrielle roth: FOSS4G is in Portland this year
This one’s for the PostGIS folks:FOSS4G, the Open Source Geo conference, is being held in Portland this year.The CFP is open now, available here, and closes April 15.
View ArticleJoshua Tolley: Bucardo, and Coping with Unicode
Given the recent DBD::Pg 3.0.0 release, with its improved Unicode support, it seemed like a good time to work on a Bucardo bug we've wanted fixed for a while. Although Bucardo will replicate Unicode...
View ArticleKirk Roybal: DFWPUG Meetup April 2, 2014
Just a quick reminder that Dallas/Fort Worth PostgreSQL Users Group has a Meetup the first Wednesday of every month.What: 13 Calm Years of PostgreSQL in Critical MessagingWho: John ScottWhen:...
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Josh Williams: Scripting ssh master connections
At End Point, security is a top priority. We just phased out the last of the 1024-bit keys for all of our employees -- those of us in ops roles that have keys lots of places had done so a long while...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: SFPUG Live Video: Wanelo's 12-Step Program
Tommorrow for San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group, recent dot-com success and social shopping site Wanelo will be explaining their 12-Step Program for Application Performance. I can't give away the...
View ArticleRobert Haas: PostgreSQL Now Has Logical Decoding
A few weeks ago, Josh Berkus wrote a blog post on Why HStore2/jsonb is the most important patch of 9.4. Everybody's going to have their own opinion on these kinds of questions, but for what it's...
View ArticleChristian Kruse: Announcing repmgr 2.0
Version 2.0 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 ArticleJim Mlodgenski: PostgreSQL Studio is now on Heroku
One of my main objectives when writing PostgreSQL Studio was to help new users learn PostgreSQL. One of the main drivers of new PostgreSQL users is the different cloud players with Heroku being one of...
View ArticleFrancisco Figueiredo Jr: Npgsql 2.1.0 released!
After a long time, Npgsql 2.1.0 is finally released! If you have been following my posts about Npgsql 2.1 beta and rc releases, you know we did a lot of changes since our last stable release.The change...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: 12-Step Program for Performance, with Wanelo.com
Few of my readers will be familiar with Wanelo, the social shopping site, because you just aren't in its target market. But Wanelo.com is currently the darling of the dot-com world, or as Bloomberg...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: xTuple consults community on best license options
xTuple, the makers of PostBooks, the compelling PostgreSQL-based accounting and CRM suite have started a discussion about how to move to a more recognised license.It is really good to see a company...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Getting contexts of lock waits
A new feature is showing up in PostgreSQL 9.4 allowing to get more information about transaction lock waits and their circumstances. It has been introduced by this commit:commit...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: New PostgreSQL releases from Packt Publishing
This past year has seen a fair number of PostgreSQL and PostGIS book releases from Packt Publishing. Packt is currently running a special E-Book offer, buy one of any of their 2000 titles and get one...
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Fabien Coelho: DataFiller 2.0.0 is out!
DataFiller processes a PostgreSQL database schema file augmented with directives in comments, and generates random data matching this schema, taking into account constraints such as types, but also...
View ArticleOleg Bartunov: Jsonb has committed !
Great news: PostgreSQL introduced jsonb support, which is real data type with binary storage and indexing !This work is a confluence of two projects - our hstore and json, which were existed in...
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: PostgreSQL 9.4 - Looking up
Just a few weeks back I wrote a article discussing many of the things that were likely to miss making the 9.4 PostgreSQL release. Since that post a few weeks ago the landscape has already changed, and...
View ArticlePeter Geoghegan: What I think of jsonb
Unsurprisingly, there has been a lot of coverage of the jsonb type, which made it into the upcoming 9.4 release of Postgres, and a lot of attention from the wider Postgres user base. I was initially a...
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