Robins Tharakan: Explain-Plan-Nodes Grid
While reading up about the various PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Plan nodes from multiple sources, I realized a clear lack of a consolidated grid / cheat-sheet, from which I could (in-one-view) cross-check how...
View ArticleSpencer Christensen: Where is pg_ctl on CentOS 6 for Postgres 9.3?
When installing PostgreSQL 9.3 onto a CentOS 6 system, you may notice that some postgres commands appear to be missing (like pg_ctl, initdb, and pg_config). However, they actually are on your system...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: I Got Into the PostgreSQL Community By...
Seriously, you should. You should submit a talk proposal to PGConf US 2015– the worst thing that will happen is the talk committee will say “no” and offer a bunch of reasons to help you get your talk...
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Sergey Konoplev: Benchmarking PostgreSQL with Different Linux Kernel Versions...
Recently Josh Berkus published an article Why you need to avoid Linux Kernel 3.2Continue reading on Medium »
View ArticleBaji Shaik: Finally, its.... Slony !! (switchover and failover)
Great tool for replication and using by most of the organizations for replicating b/w different versions of postgres and can do upgrade with minimum downtime(almost 0 sometimes??) and popular tool...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: FOSS4GNA 2015 and PGDay San Francisco March 2015
PGDay 2015 San Francisco will be held March 10th 2015 in Hyatt, San Franciso Airport, Burlingame, CA (Just outside of San Francisco). This year PGDay will be hosted along-side Free and Open Source...
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Magnus Hagander: PGConf.EU 2014 - feedback is in
It's that time of the year again - we've wrapped PGConf.EU 2014, and I've just closed the feedback system, so it's time to take a look at what's been said.We're keeping fairly consistent numbers with...
View ArticleBaji Shaik: Ah, Does it mean a bad hardware or a kernel...Uh, Just want to...
I have seen many customers coming up with below errors and asking for root cause. They wonder with the reasons behind it and say "Ah, its because of a bad hardware or a kernel.. I hate it, just want to...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: An evening with PostgreSQL and Sponsoring LFNW
JD wrote: A couple of weeks ago I spoke at Bellingham Linux User Group with a talk entitled: An Evening with PostgreSQL. It was an enlightening talk for me because it was the first time, in a long...
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Josh Berkus: SFPUG's New Home Page
SFPUG has a new home page, here. This page will be used to post our meetups, as well as local events including the upcoming pgDay SF. It runs on Ghost and PostgreSQL 9.3.Stay tuned!
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Josh Berkus: SFPUG's New Home Page
SFPUG has a new home page, here. This page will be used to post our meetups, as well as local events including the upcoming pgDay SF. It runs on Ghost and PostgreSQL 9.3.Stay tuned!
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Tomas Vondra: PostgreSQL performance with gcc, clang and icc
On Linux, a "compiler" is usually a synonym to gcc, but clang is gaining more and more adoption. Over the years, phoronix published severalarticlescomparing of performance of various clang and gcc...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Aggregate, Aggregate, Aggregate!
Tuesday night David Fetter and Josh Berkus are going to present all about the cool new aggregation features in 9.4 and 9.5, including WITHIN GROUP, FILTER, GROUPING SETS, and more.
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Aggregate, Aggregate, Aggregate!
Tuesday night David Fetter and I are going to present all about the cool new aggregation features in 9.4 and 9.5, including WITHIN GROUP, FILTER, GROUPING SETS, and more.
View ArticleJosh Berkus: pgDay SF 2015: Call for Speakers and Sponsors
Use Postgres? In the San Francisco Bay Area? Maybe you're planning to attend FOSS4G-NA or EclipseCon? Well, join us as well! pgDay SF 2015 will be on March 10th in Burlingame, CA. We are currently...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: When LIMIT attacks
One common source of query problems in PostgreSQL results an unexpectedly-bad query plan when a LIMIT clause is included in a query. The typical symptom is that PostgreSQL picks an index-based plan...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Good kernel, bad kernel
A month ago I got into an argument on IRC with Sergey about telling people to avoid kernel 3.2. This turned out to be a very productive argument, because Sergey then went and did a battery of...
View ArticleRaghavendra Rao: How to replicate only INSERTs not DELETEs/UPDATEs on Slony...
In the first place, we need to know about why such requirement needed. IMO, its absolutely a business necessity to maintain some kind of historical data on the target database(Slave Node). Especially,...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: pg_dump and external snapshots
A couple of days ago the following feature related to pg_dump has been committed and will be in Postgres 9.5:commit: be1cc8f46f57a04e69d9e4dd268d34da885fe6eb author: Simon Riggs...
View ArticleRobins Tharakan: Sqsh / FreeTDS with SQL2012 using the instance argument
This is a corner-case advise to anyone looking for a solution as to why sqsh / tsql / freetds combination is working perfectly in one SQL2012 instance but unable to login to a newly configured SQL2012...
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