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Simon Riggs: Extensions in 9.1+
One of the most exciting developments in 9.1 will be the new CREATE EXTENSION feature that Dimitri Fontaine has been designing. Dimitri has been working on them for some time now, proposing them in...
View ArticleTom Copeland: Converting Rails apps from MySQL to PostgreSQL
My roving Google bots turn up various notes on folks moving from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Here are a few accumulated entries: Yangthaman describes the process of converting his app's database from MySQL to...
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Pavel Stehule: diff string for PostgreSQL
Hello,I am working on migration a large dataset from archive to a new format. This work is joined with searching a small differences between original and transformed data. For this work I implemented a...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Introducing Extensions
After reading Simon's blog post, I can't help but try to give some details about what it is exactly that I'm working on. As he said, there are several aspects to extensions in PostgreSQL, it all begins...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Reliable Writes
Greg Smith has created a new informative wiki page about reliable I/O writing, which is critical for guaranteeing durable transactions. The wiki page contains links to several excellent documents by...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Mysql Is a Database Video
This creative video, Mysql Is a Database (warning: strong language), is a spoof of the popular iPhone4 vs HTC Evo video.
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Reserved Extensions
I’m thinking about how to add support for reserved extensions. These are extensions that one needs to depend on, but aren’t distributed via PGXN. Primarily, this means stuff distributed with the...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest 2010: Party Announced and Training Added!
PostgreSQL Conference West 2010 also known as PgWest, is having a party for attendees from 5:30pm to 8:30pm on November 3rd. Located on the 21st floor of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, the 360-degree...
View ArticleDavid Fetter: Kick 'em out, and keep 'em out!
It's sad, really. You're about to move a database to archival storage, possibly to /dev/null, but pesky users keep talking to it. Continue reading "Kick 'em out, and keep 'em out!"
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Pretty Docs
I was just looking at our 9.0 libpq documentation and was struck by how professional and clean it looks since Thom Brown overhauled it last month. Even my longstanding complaint that fixed-width fonts...
View ArticleChris Spotts: Postgresql 9.0 High Performance book is out
A more in depth review will follow next week, but for now: buy Postgresql 9.0 High Performance by Gregory Smith! At $9.99 as an ebook, what are you waiting for?!
View ArticleGary Chambers: MVC Backups Updated
David Fetter expanded upon a blog entry written by Joshua Drake by demonstrating how to create a PostgreSQL backup system based on the Model-View-Controller (MVC) design pattern. The simplicity of...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Grouping data into time ranges
Today some guy on IRC asked question, which I didn’t fully understand, but which could (probably) be summarized: how to group data into 5 minute intervals, based on some timestamp column. Well, it...
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David E. Wheeler: The new PGXN Manager “Internal Server Error” page.
The new PGXN Manager “Internal Server Error” page.
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Andreas Scherbaum: PostgreSQL @ OpenRheinRuhr 2010
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumFor the first time the PostgreSQL project will be present at OpenRheinRuhr 2010 on november 13rd and 14th in Oberhausen, Germany. Along with a booth I will also give a talk about...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: SFPUG/PGX Happy Hour at West
As a reminder, PostgreSQL West is in less than 2 weeks. Have you registered yet? The San Francisco PostgreSQL Users Group and PostgreSQL Experts are co-sponsoring a PostgreSQL Happy Hour on Tuesday,...
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Andreas Scherbaum: PostgreSQL @ Brandenburger Linux-Infotag 2010
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumThe German PostgreSQL User Group is present with a booth at Brandenburger Linux-Infotag (Linux Infoday Brandenburg) 2010 in Potsdam, Germany on november 6th. In addition I will...
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Selena Deckelmann: GSoC Mentor Summit: Day 1
Today was the first day of the GSoC Mentor summit. I attended a few sessions and had several interesting hallway conversations with developers and leaders of projects from all over the world. First, I...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News October 24th 2010
New Survey: What do you think of Hot Standby / Streaming Replication? http://www.postgresql.org/community
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Denish Patel: Security & PgWest2010
Open Source databases still needs solid presence in enterprise world. One of the myths about open source databases is that they aren't secure. To eliminate this myth we have to share our experience...
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