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Andreas Scherbaum: Wrap-up: MADlib Google Summer of Code
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumGoogle Summer of Code 2014 is wrapped up: Maxence Ahlouche did an excellent job implementing one new algorithm for MADlib and refactored the code base for another one.I posted a...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: xTupleCon WebRTC talk schedule change, new free event
As mentioned in my earlier blog, I'm visiting several events in the US and Canada in October and November. The first of these, the talk about WebRTC in CRM at xTupleCon, has moved from the previously...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Checking per-memory context memory consumption
Writing a complex database server like PostgreSQL is not an easy task. Especially memory management is an important task, which needs special attention. Internally PostgreSQL makes use of so called...
View ArticlePaul Ramsey: PostGIS 2.1.4 Released
The 2.1.4 release of PostGIS is now available.The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.4 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and...
View ArticleJehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais: Bloat estimation for tables
After my Btree bloat estimation query, I found some time to work on a new query for tables. The goal here is still to have a better bloat estimation using dedicated queries for each kind of...
View ArticleChris Travers: Math and SQL Part 6: The Problem with NULLs
This will be the final installment on Math and SQL and will cover the problem with NULLs. NULL handling is probably the most poorly thought-out feature of SQL and is inconsistent generally with the...
View ArticleKeith Fiske: A Large Database Does Not Mean Large shared_buffers
A co-worker of mine did a blog post last year that I’ve found incredibly useful when assisting clients with getting shared_buffers tuned accurately.Setting shared_buffers the hard wayYou can follow his...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: FOSS4G 2014 televised live
If you weren't able to make it to FOSS4G 2014 this year, you can still experience the event Live. All the tracks are being televised live and its pretty good reception. https://2014.foss4g.org/live/....
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUGDay 2014 report
We had about 50 folks attend the PDXPUGDay 2014 last week, between DjangoCon and Foss4g. A lot of folks were already in town for one of the other confs, but several folks also day tripped from SeaPUG!...
View ArticleCraig Ringer: pg_sysdatetime: a simple cross-platform PostgreSQL extension
A while ago I wrote about compiling PostgreSQL extensions under Visual Studio– without having to recompile the whole PostgreSQL source tree.I just finished the pg_sysdatetime extension, which is mainly...
View ArticleBarry Jones: Video: SQL vs NoSQL Discussion at UpstatePHP
Here's the video from the August UpstatePHP meeting in Greenville discussing SQL vs NoSQL and where they are useful for your development process. I represented SQL solutions (*cough* PostgreSQL...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: Logging of replication commands
Postgres 9.5 will come up with an additional logging option making possible to log replication commands that are being received by a node. It has been introduced by this commit.commit:...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.5 – Add width_bucket(anyelement,...
On 9th of September, Tom Lane committed patch: Add width_bucket(anyelement, anyarray). This provides a convenient method of classifying input values into buckets that are not necessarily equal-width....
View ArticleChris Travers: LedgerSMB 1.4.0 Released
15 September 2014, London. The LedgerSMB project - all-volunteer developers and contributors - today announced LedgerSMB 1.4.0.Based on an open source code base first released in 1999, the LedgerSMB...
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Abdul Yadi: Delta Table Clean Up in Bucardo 5 Cascaded Slave Replication
Thanks for Bucardo team for responding my previous post. My cascaded slave replication works as expected.Today I notice there is still something to do related with delta and track tables. Single table...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: PgUS Fall Update 2014
It has been a little quiet on the U.S. front of late. Alas, summer of 2014 has come and gone and it is time to strap on the gators and get a little muddy. Although we have been relatively quiet we have...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: GCE, A little advertised cloud service that is perfect for...
Maybe... I have yet to run PostgreSQL on GCE in production. I am still testing it but I have learned the following: A standard provision disk for GCE will give you ~ 80MB/s random write. A standard SSD...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUGDay Recap
Last weekend we held the biggest PDXPUGDay we’ve had in a while! 5 speakers + a few lightning talks added up to a fun lineup. About 1/3 of the ~50 attendees were in town for FOSS4G; I think the guy...
View ArticleChris Travers: PGObject Cookbook Part 1: Introduction
PrefaceI have decided to put together a PGObject Cookbook, showing the power of this framework. If anyone is interested in porting the db-looking sides to other languages, please let me know. I would...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: nice unix filter pv
I search some filter, that can count a processed rows and can to show a progress. It exists and it is pv# import to verticazcat data.sql | pv -s 16986105538 -p -t -r | vsqlALTER TABLE0:13:56 [4.22MB/s]...
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