Peter Eisentraut: ccache and clang, part 3
In part 1 and part 2 I investigated how to use ccache with clang. That was more than three years ago.I got an email the other day that ccache bug 8118, which I filed while writing part 1, was closed,...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Oracle FDW 1.1.0 with SDO_Geometry PostGIS spatial...
Oracle FDW is a foreign data wrapper PostgreSQL extension that allows you to read Oracle database tables from a PostgreSQL database. You can get it via the PGXN network or the main website...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: How much slower are numerics?
The general knowledge is that numerics are slower than integers/float, but offer precision and ranges that are better. While I understand what is slow, I don't really know how much slower numerics are....
View ArticleDave Page: The story of pgAdmin
I’m often asked how I first became involved in PostgreSQL, and how the pgAdmin project got started. Much as I’m happy to tell the story over beer, it becomes tedious to do so over email after the first...
View ArticleCraig Ringer: BDR for PostgreSQL: Present and future
For a couple of years now a team at 2ndQuadrant led by Andres Freund have been working on adding bi-directional asynchronous multi-master replication support for PostgreSQL. This effort has become...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.5 – Event Trigger for table_rewrite
On 7th of December, Simon Riggs committed patch: Event Trigger for table_rewrite Generate a table_rewrite event when ALTER TABLE attempts to rewrite a table. Provide helper functions to identify...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: REINDEX SCHEMA
PostgreSQL 9.5 has added a new mode for REINDEX with this commit:commit: fe263d115a7dd16095b8b8f1e943aff2bb4574d2 author: Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 00:28:00 +0900...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Loading pg_partman on RDS or Heroku
One of the limitations with both RDS and Heroku is that you can only install the extensions they've approved and made available to you. Except ... you can install "SQL-only" extensions which don't...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.5 – REINDEX SCHEMA
On 8th of December, Simon Riggs committed patch: REINDEX SCHEMA Add new SCHEMA option to REINDEX and reindexdb. Sawada Masahiko Reviewed by Michael Paquier and Fabrízio de Royes Mello This is...
View ArticleDan Robinson: Speeding Up PostgreSQL With Partial Indexes
Did you know PostgreSQL supports indexing a subset of your table? This enables very fast reads from that subset with almost no index overhead. It’s often the best way to index your data if you want to...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: SQLnoSQL: pg_shard and JSONB, part 1
Of course, the first thing which occurred to me with pg_shard was to create a distributed "NoSQL" database using 9.4's JSONB. I had to wait a bit because there were some issues with 9.4 compatibility...
View ArticleIan Barwick: Japan PostgreSQL Conference 2014
Japan has been an early and vigorous adopter of PostgreSQL (back in 2006, when PostgreSQL was still...permalink
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Ian Barwick: Japan PostgreSQL Conference 2014
Japan has been an early and vigorous adopter of PostgreSQL (back in 2006, when PostgreSQL was still emerging from obscurity in the western hemisphere, I noted that in Tokyo bookstores, PostgreSQL books...
View ArticleRaghavendra Rao: Switchover/Switchback in Slony-I while upgrading PostgreSQL...
Every new release of PostgreSQL comes with a packed of exciting features. To benefit new features, database server should be upgraded. Choosing traditional upgrade paths like pg_dump/pg_restore or...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: plpgsql_check is ready for OS X
mscottie found a magic option -undefined dynamic_lookup. With this option we are able to compile plpgsql_check on OS X platform.
View ArticleRobins Tharakan: PostgreSQL Certification
Recently, someone asked for some inputs before going ahead with a PostgreSQL Certification. From what I know, outside Japan, EnterpriseDB is the only Consultancy offer Certification services...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG lab report – BDR
For the last PDXPUG lab of the year, we tried out BiDirectional Replicatoin (BDR). Five of us just set up VMs on our laptops and followed the instructions on the wiki. We only had about 90 minutes time...
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gabrielle roth: Simple test for autovacuum log messages
I had reason recently to suspect that autovacuum jobs weren’t being properly logged on my RDS instance. Instead of compulsively re-running “SELECT relname, last_autovacuum FROM pg_stat_user_tables”...
View ArticlePaul Ramsey: PostGIS 2.1.5 Released
The 2.1.5 release of PostGIS is now available.The PostGIS development team is happy to release patch for PostGIS 2.1, the 2.1.5 release. As befits a patch release, the focus is on bugs, breakages, and...
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Josh Berkus: Your Hanukkah Present: PostgreSQL 9.4
For the third night of Hanukkah, we have a nice present for you: PostgreSQL 9.4.0. Now eat your latkes.Let's talk about 9.4 by talking about one of my favorite features: JSONB. A lot of people worked...
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