Michael Paquier: Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Logical replication receiver
These last couple of days I have been developing for studies a background worker able to fetch changes from a logical decoder already developed and presented on this blog called decoder_raw able to...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: psql watch for batch processing
A while back, we discussed using pgAdmin pgScript as a quicky way for running a repetitive update script where you want each loop to commit right away. Since stored functions have to commit as a whole,...
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Dinesh Kumar: 32-bit PostgreSQL Compilation On 64-bit CentOS 6.x
I am sure that, most of you aware of this. But, for me it's the first time, i accomplished it.As one of my assigned tasks to build a 32-bit instance of postgresql on 64-bit machine, i have followed the...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Upcoming SFPUG Live Streams: Crontabber and JSONB
Apparently June is the month for hackers named Peter with difficult-to-spell last names. Join us for two live streams of two different Peters giving two different PostgreSQL presentations.First, on...
View ArticleHadi Moshayedi: PostgreSQL columnar store benchmarks on SSDs
In April we released cstore_fdw, the first columnar store foreign data wrapper for PostgreSQL. Our initial blog post received lots of interest in cstore_fdw but also lots questions. In this blog post...
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Daniel Pocock: Trialing the xTuple/PostBooks next generation web UI
For some time I've been using PostBooks to keep track of finances. The traditional PostBooks system has a powerful Qt GUI.The xTuple team have been hard at work creating a shiny new web-based user...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Chain reaction with logical replication
Working with logical replication and a cluster of nodes heavily linked among each other can result in particularly disturbing results. If a logical change is received on a node that itself regenerates...
View ArticleRaghavendra Rao: Utilising caching contrib's pg_prewarm and pg_hibernator in...
Numerous DBA's (counting me), put questions all the time to PostgreSQL hackers/developers/architects on mailing list:Q1. Does PG has the ability to cache/warm a relation ?Q2. Is it possible to return...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: June meeting in two weeks
When: 7-9pm Thu June 19, 2014Where: IovationWho: David KerrWhat: Postgres on DockerDavid Kerr’s back this month to talk about Postgres on Docker.Linux containers are finally getting their day, and...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: New PostgreSQL 9.4 article
I upgraded a mediawiki 1.23 on our Czech PostgreSQL site. New important feature is a integration of Google Translator. Now a articles from this site can be read in seven languages. New one is my fresh...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: ccache mysteries
ccache is a nifty little utility for speeding up compilations by caching results. It's something we have long had support for in the buildfarm. Tom Lane pinged me a couple of days ago about why, when...
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gabrielle roth: autovacuum: long naps aren’t better
There’s that saying about “the first time’s an accident, the second’s a coincidence, the third is a pattern”. It’s probably because I’ve been studying Postgres’s autovacuum feature so much lately and...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Anonymize CTE names on explain.depesz.com
A colleague recently let me know that anonymization in explain.depesz.com doesn't handle CTE names. For example, in plan: QUERY PLAN...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: buildfarm vs vpath vs ccache
I think we've got more or less to the bottom of the ccache mystery I wrote about recently. It turns out that the problem of close to 100% of cache misses occurs only when the buildfarm is doing a vpath...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG June Lab Night this week
For this month’s lab, we’ll work our way through the Schemaverse tutorial. Bring your laptop and your SQL skills! Dinner is BYO this month, but beverages will be provided.Space is limited, so please...
View ArticleRobert Haas: Linux disables vm.zone_reclaim_mode by default
Last week, Linus Torvalds merged a Linux kernel commit from Mel Gorman disabling vm.zone_reclaim_mode by default. I mentioned that this change might be in the works when I blogged about attending...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Reducing log messages on the client
It happens quite frequently that PostgreSQL client applications are flooded with messages from the server. This is both annoying and bad for performance as well as network bandwidth. It seems that many...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: Foreign Tables are not as Useful as I Hoped
When I heard about foreign tables using the new postgres_fdw foreign data wrapper in PostgreSQL 9.3, I was pretty excited. We hadn’t upgraded to 9.3 so I waited until we did before I did any serious...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: The Djangocon US 2014 Call for Proposals is open!
As program chair this year, I am very pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals for Djangocon US 2014 is now open! It only runs through the end of June, so be sure to get them in promptly!
View ArticleTim van der Linden: Postgis, PostgreSQL's spatial partner - Part 1
PrefaceIn Dutch we have an expression that says "Van hier tot Tokio", which literally translated means "From here to Tokyo" and is used to indicate that something is very far or very difficult. Unless...
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