Frank Wiles: Open "Office Hours"
We've been wanting to try this for awhile, but have been too busy to actually try it out until now. Jacob Kaplan-Moss and I will be holding open "office hours" this Friday November 5th between 1-3 PM...
View ArticleTheo Schlossnagle: Web Performance Boot Camp
Slides are here, get 'em while they're hot.
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: Back to conferencing - PGWest
Today is the first day of PG-West, also known as JDCon-west. After having about a week off to visit places and visit friends, I'm now back up in San Francisco for this conference, which will cover most...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Understanding postgresql.conf :...
Starting new blog series – explanation of various configuration parameters. I will of course follow no schedule or order – if I’d had to – it would be my job, and in this way – it’s fun. First...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Annotated.conf, 9.0 Edition
One of the most popular things I've added to the PostgreSQL unofficial documentation is the "Annotated.conf", a huge spreadsheet of all of our configuration variables. For PostgreSQL West, I've updated...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: PGWest, Search Site Sneak Peak
PGWest, Search Site Sneak Peak I’ve been working on my PostgreSQL Conference West presentation, which heavily features PGXN, of course. I think it’s looking good. If you’re at PGWest or are in the San...
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Jignesh Shah: PostgreSQL in Virtual Environment - PGWest 2010
Yesterday I had my presentation at PgWest 2010 at San Francisco. If you have questions on the presentation please feel free to leave comments.
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Leo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook Book Review
I was excited when PostgreSQL 9 Admin Cookbook by Simon Riggs and Hannu Krosing and the companion book PostgreSQL 9 High Performance, by Greg Smith were available. All three authors are well known...
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Denish Patel: Achieving PCI Compliance with PostgreSQL
Today, I gave Security talk on Achieving PCI Compliance at PgWest 2010, San Francisco. Slides are available to download.
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Dave Page: PGWest: Day 1 and 2
So my blogging of PGWest was a FAIL on the first day, as I never got around to following up my Day 0 post with anything, so with apologies, here's a quick roundup of day 1 and day 2.Day 1 Started with...
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Tatsuo Ishii: Tutorial to pgpool-II plus Streaming replication
I have written a tutorial to pgpool-II using PostgreSQL 9.0's streaming replication. The tutorial is designed to use minimum resource: a Linux box. On the box, pgpool-II, pgpoolAdmin(a PHP based...
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Dave Page: Booked for PGDay.EU 2010 yet?
If you're planning on attending this year's European PostgreSQL conference (increasingly inaccurately known as PGDay!), then you might want to think about registering and booking your travel and...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: View from the back
At DrakeCon West, there have been, as usual at PostgreSQL conferences, a surprise or two. So far this year, my biggest surprise was htsql. This looks to me to be well worth a very close look. I was...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: MVCC Unmasked Now Online
I gave my MVCC Unmasked presentation yesterday at PgWest 2010 so the talk is now online. The talk was well-received, with many audience questions. The slides are heavily annotated, which should make...
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Francisco Figueiredo Jr: Going Flash-Free too.
After seeing this post from John Gruber, I decided to remove flash from my macbook and disable it from Chrome. Let's see what happens. I notice since a long time ago that Flash eats up a lot of cpu...
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Francisco Figueiredo Jr: Npgsql bytea handling fix is coming...
Hi all!I'm aware of this problem and it is already fixed. We will be doing a new release on the next few days. For while, the current workaround is to fallback to previous handling style by changing...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: greatest and least - oldies but goodies
Problem: You have a set of numbers, or characters or whatever and you are trying to find the max or min of this set? If the values are separate records in a table or query, the answer is well known and...
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Bernd Helmle: Building Slony-I on OSX
Just stumpled across this today while trying to build a fresh git clone of Slony-I on my MacBook; To build Slony-I on a OSX box (in my case 10.6.4), you might do the following on your box:% ./configure...
View ArticleGreg Smith: PG West talks
My tour this week of the PostgreSQL West conference has taught me that you can deliver three talks in two days, or you can have fun seeing other people's talks, but it's rather difficult to do both....
View ArticleBruce Momjian: PG West Selectivity Talk
The most creative talk I saw at PgWest 2010 this year was one by Nathan Boley titled Improving Planner Prediction Accuracy with Custom Selectivity Functions. First, some background — recent versions of...
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