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Daniel Pocock: Debian Maintainer Dashboard now provides iCalendar feeds
Contributors to Debian can now monitor their list of pending activities using iCalendar clients on their desktop or mobile device.Thanks to the tremendous work of the Debian QA team, the Ultimate...
View ArticleOleg Bartunov: My first postgres post (Sep 8, 1995) !
I always said I joined postgres community in 1996, but today I found an archive of old emails and found this message I sent Sep 8, 1995 year (a day before my birthday) ! Another message from Sep 7,...
View ArticleErik Van Norstrand: Enity-Attribute-Value Model - For or Against
Earlier today, much to my excitement, I got my first comment on one of my blog posts! That comment mentioned that I might be reinventing the "Entity-Attribute-Value Anti Pattern." I had never heard of...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Some notes on today's update release
We released a security and cumulative bugfix release to all supported versions today. That means it's update time. What follows is my personal advice on the update.For the first time in a while, we...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: February meeting in two weeks
When: 6-8pm Thu Feb 19, 2015Where: IovationWho: David KerrWhat: Using Bucardo to Migrate your Pg database to RDS with minimal downtimeAs a followup to January’s RDS discussion, Dave Kerr works through...
View ArticleJohn DeSoi: pgEdit 2.2 released
pgEdit has been updated to work with TextMate 2. The syntax highlighting grammar now supports all PostgreSQL 9.3 keywords and SQL commands.This update also includes other minor fixes and improvements...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: A statement on recent conference events
The PostgreSQL user group in Moscow is currently conducting their first-ever PostgreSQL-themed conference, which has been a tremendous success. Unfortunately, the venue booked by the conference chose...
View ArticleBaji Shaik: Someone asked me.. "how to change the location of core file...
I remember someone asking me about changing the location of core file generated by postgres. We all know it creates under PGDATA by default, however some people want to avoid that as core file size...
View ArticlePavel Stehule: plpgsql_check is available for Microsoft Windows
I compiled the plpgsql_check by Visual Studio 2010 Express. The dll for PostgreSQL 9.2, 9.3, 9.4 and x86 and x64 platform are available in zip archive...
View ArticleErnst-Georg Schmid: Finding mass spectra with PostgreSQL: Spectra as function...
If the spectra are represented as tables/recordets, like in my last posts on the topic, the question arises how to use a table as an argument to a function in PostgreSQL without creating a custom...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Back From FOSDEM 2015
The FOSDEM 2015 edition has been awesome this year, the usual mix of meeting with old friends, talking about interesting topics, seeing tremendous activity in all Open Source domains, and having...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Moving PLV8 to ECMAScript6
Taras Mitran has just published a blog post about using some of the advanced features of ECMAScript version 6 to make programming with SQL in JavaScript nicer.He notes that Template Strings allow for...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Querying MS Access and other ODBC data sources with...
If you have the OGR_FDW we discussed in OGR FDW Windows first taste built with ODBC support, then you can access most any ODBC datasource from PostgreSQL. This is especially useful for Windows users....
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Earthdistance: From Saigon to Frankfurt
On my way back from Vietnam I was watching the screen in front of me displaying the “Distance to destination”. On such a long flight the number you see in front of you can be quite depressing so I...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Postgres custom casts and pg_dump
We recently upgraded a client from Postgres version 8.3 to version 9.4. Yes, that is quite the jump! In the process, I was reminded about the old implicit cast issue. A major change of Postgres 8.3 was...
View ArticleErik Van Norstrand: SQLObjectifier - A scalable Entity-Attribute-Value Model...
I started SQLObjectifier to build a core database model that would be able to fit multiple domains with ease. Today, I am proud to release version 1.0 of SQLObjectifier to the public! SQLObjectifier is...
View ArticleErnst-Georg Schmid: Finding mass spectra with PostgreSQL: Indexing
When naively searching for a specific spectral contrast angle, e.g.select id from spectrum,...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Tree Join Tables: preventing cycles
Searching Google, I was surprised to find that there were few solutions published for a common issue: preventing users from creating a cycle when you create a self-join table. So here's one solution,...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: Compression with PGLZ in...
As a preparation of an upcoming patch for full-page write compression in WAL, a patch has been pushed this week to make PGLZ, the in-core compression algorithm of PostgreSQL used for TOAST tables, more...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: "In-memory" is not a feature, it's a bug
So, I'm hearing again about the latest generation of "in-memory databases". Apparently Gartner even has a category for them now. Let me define an in-memory database for you: An in-memory database...
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