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Pavel Golub: PostgresDAC 2.6.0 RC released
The first Release Candidate of the upcoming PostgresDAC v2.6.0 released. We are hoping that there are no bugs, so this first RC will be the last either. You’re welcome to download the PostgresDAC...
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Pavel Golub: Metamorphosis of gram.y: 9.0
PostgreSQL 9.0 is available for a month already, but I remembered only today to update handy HTML version of native gram.y (revision 2.717). Details and tips on using processed file can be found in my...
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: O’Reilly MySQL Conference CfP ends today
You have about 14 more hours to submit session proposals to the O’Reilly MySQL conference, which is soliciting sessions about all open-source databases: PostgreSQL, CouchDB, Riak, Hadoop, Firebird, you...
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Robert Haas: WAL Reliability
I recently learned, somewhat to my chagrin, that operating systems are pathological liars, and in particular that they habitually lie about whether data has actually been written to disk. If you use...
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Dave Page: PGDay Europe 2010 schedule announced
I'm pleased to be able to say that the schedule for this year's PGDay Europe conference in Stuttgart, Germany on the 6th - 8th December 2010 is now available.We have a bumper crop of talks this year,...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest 2010: 8 Days and counting
I can't believe how far we have come from a single day, Saturday "PgDay" in 2007 to a full blown three day conference in the middle of the week. Twice a year, every year we have grown, adding content,...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Django and PostgreSQL “Idle In Transaction” Connections
A well-known issue that can come up with Django sites running on PostgreSQL is that connections in “Idle in Transaction” state can pile up. There’s a relatively straight-forward fix, but ultimately,...
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Pavel Golub: PgMDD v1.3.0-beta3 is available
MicroOLAP Database Designer for PostgreSQL aka PgMDD v1.3.0-Beta3 is already available for downloading. It is supposed to be the last beta, so please test it as thoroughly as possible. The main...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest 2010: Officially larger that PgEast 2010
As of 5:00PM PST PostgreSQL Conference West 2010 became the largest PostgreSQL Conference in the series. The conference is also still growing as registrations continue to come in.Not only do we have...
View ArticleRobert Treat: Scalability, I has it
On Monday I spoke at the Highload++ conference in Moscow, Russia. This is an annual conference put on by several local Russian tech folk that focuses on large scale website architectures. This...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: PgUS Sponsors NYCPug meetup
JD Wrote: 10/20/2010, Jim Mlodgenski spoke about GridSQL to the NYCPug. There were 14 community members present. Mason Sharp says, "The user group is getting nice momentum, with about that same amount...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Small annoyance
PLSQL was derived from Ada, a language I taught and made money writing programs in many years ago, and for which I retain some fondness. In Ada you can declare a number of variables in the same...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.0 – Suffix matching in pg_hba.conf
On 24th of October, Peter Eisentraut committed addition to his previous patch, which adds: Support suffix matching of host names in pg_hba.conf A name starting with a dot can be used to match a...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.1 – adding values to enums
Finally, on 25th of October, Tom Lane committed patch which does: Allow new values to be added to an existing enum type. After much expenditure of effort, we've got this to the point where the...
View ArticleAurynn Shaw: INSERT..RETURNING in postgres.js
So as you all know, we've been working on postgres support for the up-and-coming node.js environment, and we just got a great new example of Postgres' functionality that we're proud to say we support -...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Are hump days, slow days? Wait ... what, No more Gnome for Ubuntu?
There are so many things to consider when working through the week. You never send a Press Release never on Monday or Friday. Scheduling meetings is always a bad idea on Monday. Thursdays always seem...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Users versus Customers - YOU DON'T NEED NO STINKING REPLICATION
I was catching up on the max_wal_senders must die thread and I came across this very interesting post by fellow Josh Berkus.In the post, Josh Berkus makes the assertion, "50% of PGX's active clients...
View ArticleGabrielle Roth: My picks for PgWest
I’m getting excited about next week’s PgWest! I’m having a hard time choosing which talks to attend, though – lots of good stuff happening in conflicting time slots! Here’s my current list: Tuesday...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Things I Do Not Understand: “Web-Scale.”
What does this mean? It clearly means something along the lines of, “Can handle lots of transactions per unit time,” but how many? I mean, WordPress with WP-SuperCache is “web scale” if all that is...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Users Want Functionality, Not Features
Over at the Command Prompt blog, Joshua Drake makes a (probably deliberately) provocative point about “users” not wanting replication, as opposed to “customers” who do. I’ll confess I’m not 100% sure...
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