Umair Shahid: HOWTO use JSON functionality in PostgreSQL
In a previous post, I talked about the excitement that surrounds NoSQL support in PostgreSQL. Today, I will dive a little deeper into the technical details of native JSON support that makes NoSQL...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Dynamically disabling triggers without locks
Recently Simon Riggs committed a patch by himself and Andreas Karlsson to reduce the lock strength required by certain ALTER TABLE commands, including those to enable or disable triggers. Now the lock...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: April meeting next week
When: 6-8pm Thursday April 16, 2015 Where: Iovation Who: Eric Hanson What: Aquameta release!Eric Hanson will give a tutorial for how to build applications with Aquameta, an open source web development...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Functions and Addressing JSON Data
Fairly recently, a friend of mine presented a problem he wanted to solve with some JSON he had in a table. After he presented the end result he was trying to reach, I made the assumption that this...
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David E. Wheeler: PGXN Release Badges
Looks like it’s been close to two years since my last post on the PGXN blog. Apologies for that. I’ve thought for a while maybe I should organize an “extension of the week” series or something. Would...
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Umair Shahid: HOWTO create reports in Tableau with PostgreSQL database
For 2015, once again, Gartner’s Magic Quadrant for Business Intelligence and Analytics Platforms ranks Tableau pretty much at the top. How powerful would it be to combine Tableau with the world’s most...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: South Bay PUG: Vitesse and Heikki at Adobe
The South Bay PUG is having a meetup on April 28th. Speakers will include CK Tan of PostgreSQL enhancement company Vitesse Data, and Heikki Linnakangas, PostgreSQL Committer. We do not expect to have...
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Rajeev Rastogi: Indian PGDay, Bangalore (11th April 2015)
I recently just got back from Indian PGDay conference 2015. It was an interesting, motivating and lot of knowledge sharing in terms of both attending and speaking at the conference.I spoke about the...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: log_autovacuum_min_duration...
log_autovacuum_min_duration is a system-wide parameter controlling a threshold from which autovacuum activity is logged in the system logs. Every person who has already worked on looking at a system...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Hot Fix for buildfarm client, currently broken by pg_upgrade...
Yesterday the pg_upgrade program was moved from contrib to bin in the source tree. Unfortunately this broke most of those buildfarm members which check pg_upgrade. There is a hot fix for the...
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Andreas Scherbaum: German-speaking PostgreSQL Conference 2015
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumPGConf.de 2015 is the sequel of the highly successful German-speaking PostgreSQL Conferences 2011 and 2013. Due to space limitations in the old location, we are moving to...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Expressions VS advanced aggregates
So ... you're using some of 9.4's new advanced aggregates, including FILTER and WITHIN GROUP. You want to take some statistical samples of your data, including median, mode, and a count of validated...
View ArticlePeter Eisentraut: Storing URIs in PostgreSQL
About two months ago, this happened:What form of bribery would be required to convince someone to write an `email` and `url` data type for Postgres, by the way? Any takers?— Peter van Hardenberg (@pvh)...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: New PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client Release
I have just released version 4.15 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client. Here's what's changed:support the new location for pg_upgradesupport running tests of client programssupport building, installing...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Anonymous Blocks and Object Manipulation
PGDB has had anonymous blocks since the release of 9.0 in late 2010. But it must either be one of those features that got lost in the shuffle, or is otherwise considered too advanced, because I rarely...
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Amit Kapila: Write Scalability in PostgreSQL
I have ran some benchmark tests to see the Write performance/scalability in PostgreSQL 9.5 and thought it would be good to share the same with others,so writing this blog post.I have ran a pgbench...
View ArticleBaji Shaik: Woohoo !! Packt Publishing has published a book on...
(Baji is trying to impress 'X')==========Baji: Packt Publishing has published a book on troubleshooting PostgreSQL database. _X_: Uh, so what(!?). It published other 4 PostgreSQL books this year !Baji:...
View ArticleBaji Shaik: Aha, you can count the rows for \copy command.
We all know that \copy command does not return anything when you load the data. The idea is to capture how many # of records got loaded into table through \copy command.Here's a shell script that...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Buildfarm bug fix for MSVC builds
Unfortunately there was a small bug in yesterday's buildfarm client release. The bug only affects MSVC builds, which would fail silently on the HEAD (master) branch.There is a bug fix release available...
View ArticleRonan Dunklau: Import foreign schema support in Multicorn
Some of you may have noticed that support for the IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA statement has landed in the PostgreSQL source tree last july. This new command allows users to automatically map foreign tables...
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