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Dimitri Fontaine: New release: pgloader 3.2
PostgreSQL comes with an awesome bulk copy protocol and tooling best known as the COPY and \copy commands. Being a transactional system, PostgreSQL COPY implementation will ROLLBACK any work done if a...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: how to push parameters to DO statement from command line
PostgreSQL DO statement doesn't support parametrization. But with psql variables we are able to "inject" do statement safely and we can do it:bash-4.1$ cat test.sh #!/bin/bashecho "set myvars.msgcount...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres ODBC driver: libpq to govern them all
Many improvements are being done in the ODBC driver for PostgreSQL these days, one being for example the addition of more and more integrated regression tests insuring the code quality. One feature...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: Accepting code donations from the Ukraine (Crimea)...
President Obama recently signed Executive Order: #13685 [1] , in short this Order states:(a) The following are prohibited: (i) new investment in the Crimea region of Ukraine by a United States person,...
View ArticleGlyn Astill: Wanting for a hstore style delete operator in jsonb
PostgreSQL 9.4 intorduced the jsonb type, but it’d be nice to be able to delete keys and pairs using the “-” operator; just like you can with the hstore type. Fortunately postgres makes creating an...
View ArticleGlyn Astill: Copying Pavel Stehule’s simple history table but with the jsonb...
On 15/01/2015 Pavel Stehule wrote about implementing a dead simple history table using the hstore type. On Friday evening I wanted to copy this almost line for line switching the hstore type for jsonb...
View ArticleBinod Nirvan: MixERP PostgreSQL Database Documenter
We chose PostgreSQL database for our ERP software MixERP, which is going Beta 1 release very soon. Unlike other ERP solutions which support PostgreSQL, we do not use PostgreSQL just to merely only...
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Dimitri Fontaine: My First Slashdot Effect
Thanks to the Postgres Weekly issue #89 and a post to Hacker News front page (see Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp it well seems that I just had my first Slashdot...
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damien clochard: Rendez-vous at FOSDEM 2015
As in previous years, Dalibo will particpate to FOSDEM 2015 the greatest FLOSS event in Europe which is held from Jan. 31 to Feb. 1FOSDEM is a unique free event that offers open source communities a...
View ArticleDavid Christensen: PGConf.US NYC: "Choosing a Logical Replication System"
I'm excited to have my talk "Choosing a Logical Replication System" accepted to PGConf.US! I'll be speaking on Friday, March 27th from 2:00 - 2:50, as part of the Strategy track. In this talk I will...
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Denish Patel: Postgres – ERROR: Unsupported startup parameter: replication
Postgres provides much clear ERROR reporting messages compare to other databases/data-stores I have worked or been working at my $DAYJOB. However, someone reported following error on their Secondary...
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damien clochard: PoWA 1.2.1 is out !
We’ve just released a new version of PoWA, the PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer. Check out complete release note here.This new version adds an highly requested feature : you can now collect stats from...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: January Lab Next Week: postgres_fdw
When: Thu Jan 29, 6pm-8pm Where: Renewable Funding, 400 SW 6th AveWe’ll go over Foreign Data Wrappers, focusing on the Postgres FDW.Our labs are casual, attendee-led affairs with no agenda set in...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Installing PostGIS packaged address_standardizer on...
One of the changes coming to you in PostGIS 2.2 are additional extensions. Two ones close to my heart are the address_standardizer (which was a separate project before, but folded into PostGIS in...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: How We Selected Talks for PGConf US 2015
In the spirit of open-source, we would like to share how we handled the talk selection process for PGConf US 2015. This post will discuss the entire process of how a talk ends up in one of our United...
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Gabriele Bartolini: How monitoring of WAL archiving improves with PostgreSQL...
PostgreSQL 9.4 introduces a new statistic in the catalogue, called pg_stat_archiver. Thanks to the SQL language it is now possible, in an instant, to check the state of the archiving process of...
View ArticleBinod Nirvan: MixERP PgDoc on OSX and Linux
MixERP PgDoc is a console-based application that creates beautiful PostgreSQL database documentation. The first release supported Windows and with the second release today, we now support OSX and Linux...
View ArticlePeter Geoghegan: Abbreviated keys: exploiting locality to improve...
On Monday, Robert Haas committed a patch of mine that considerably speeds up the sorting of text in PostgreSQL. This was the last and the largest in a series of such patches, the patch that adds...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Using SSL https connections with www_fdw on windows
One of the foreign data wrappers I included in the PostgreSQL 9.3 Windows FDW bag and PostgreSQL 9.4 Windows FDW bag is the www_fdw extension used for querying web services. Someone asked that since I...
View Articlerobert berry: Regular Expression Stop Words for Postgresql
Regular Expression Stop Words for PostgresqlJan 24, 2015 – PortlandWhile working on a NLP project with OCR-derived text, I discovered a need that wasn’t immediately met by the built in parsers and...
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