Dave Cramer: PostgreSQL Driver now under continuous integration
Continuous Integration is all about being able to push our code-changes to github and instantly find out if our build fails, or to discover if our code-changes fail our prepared tests. The last few...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014
Last week some PostgreSQL users, contributors and advocates have organized a really great conference in Stockholm, Sweden, where I had the please to give the following talk: PostgreSQL is YeSQL!Nordic...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.4 – Introduce jsonb, a structured...
On 23rd of March, Andrew Dunstan committed patch: Introduce jsonb, a structured format for storing json. The new format accepts exactly the same data as the json type. However, it is stored in a...
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: A year's look at Postgres
A couple years back I started more regularly blogging, though I’ve done this off and on before, this time I kept some regularity. A common theme started to emerge with some content on Postgres about...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: wal_level: What is the difference?
To use PostgreSQL replication it is necessary to change the wal_level from “minimal” to “hot_standby”. But, which impact does this change have on the amount of WAL actually written to disk? And which...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: An almost idiot's guide to install PostgreSQL 9.3,...
In this exercise, we'll go thru installing PostgreSQL 9.3 on a CentOS 6 64-bit box. We'll cover upgrading in a later article. For the rest of this article, we'll go over configuring yum to use the...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: Announcing walctl for PostgreSQL Transaction Log Management
I’ve managed to convince my employer to open source one of the tools I recently wrote. That tool goes by the name of walctl, and I believe the importance of this kind of tool can not be overstated.The...
View ArticleFrancisco Figueiredo Jr: Npgsql 2.1.2 released!
Npgsql 2.1.2 is out!This is a bug fix release. Two fixes are present:KeyNotFoundException when setting ApplicationName on NpgsqlConnectionStringBuilder and A regression when using NHibernate with...
View ArticleGuillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais: Playing with indexes and better bloat estimate
Most of the PostgreSQL DBAs might know about this large bloat estimate query integrated in check_postgres. It is supposed to compute a rough estimate of the bloat for tables and indexes in a database....
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Triggers on foreign tables
PostgreSQL 9.4 is coming with more support for triggers, making them now firable on foreign tables. This feature has been introduced by the following commit:commit...
View ArticleHeikki Linnakangas: GIN as a substitute for bitmap indexes
On some other DBMS’s, bitmap indexes are often used for columns that have only a few distinct values. Boolean columns, status codes and such. Compared to normal B-tree indexes, bitmap indexes are very...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Watch all the little new features
Sometimes it's quite difficult to keep on top of all the new features that we implement. One I had missed that I just found out about yesterday, goes all the way back to 9.1, when we got advisory locks...
View ArticleDavid Fetter: A little song
Computers are just the thing for automating repetitive tasks. Continue reading "A little song"
View Articlerobert berry: Upgrading Postgresql on Ubuntu
Upgrading Postgresql on UbuntuMarch 29, 2014 – PortlandEvery new release of Postgresql is packed with exciting new features. Of course production systems need to be updated to use them. This post...
View ArticleBaji Shaik: Is it failback or switchover with PostgreSQL? Ah, maybe...
Sometimes I feel like I found something new in postgres, but most of the times it turned out to be known one, I mean, already known by people. I believe, this is a kinda same thing now(this might be...
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Oleg Bartunov: Siberia likes postgres and jsonb !
I'm attending a big (~2000 attenders) siberian it-conference Codefest-2014 in Novosibirsk. This is mostly regional conference and I see a little intersection with Moscow conferences, so it's useful to...
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Magnus Hagander: Nordic PGDay 2014 - wrap-up of the wrap-up
Nordic PGDay 2014 was just over a week ago in Stockholm, Sweden, and was definitely a success. A lot more people than we initially expected had the event sell out completely a couple of weeks before it...
View ArticleLeo and Regina Obe Hsu: PostGIS 2.0.5 Released
The 2.0.5 release of PostGIS is now available.The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.0, the 2.0.5 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and...
View ArticleLeo and Regina Obe Hsu: PostGIS 2.1.2 Released
The 2.1.2 release of PostGIS is now available.The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.2 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs and...
View ArticleRobert Haas: Back from LSF/MM and Collab
Last week, I attended the Linux Storage, Filesystems, and Memory Management summit (LSF/MM) on Monday and Tuesday, and the Linux Collaboration Summit (aka Collab) from Wednesday through Friday. Both...
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