Hans-Juergen Schoenig: Using temporary tables the way they should not be used
Temporary tables are a core feature of SQL and are commonly used by people around the globe. PostgreSQL provides a nice implementation of temporary tables, which has served me well over the years. An...
View ArticleDenish Patel: Why should you consider upgrading Postgres again?
As title suggests,  if you are running Postgres in your environment, it is very important that you plan to upgrade Postgres with the latest announced release.I upgraded Postgres recently in last couple...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: 10 Ways to Ruin Performance: Out Of Order
There are a lot of database engines out there. As such, a developer or DBA will naturally have varying levels of experience with each, and some of this might conflict with how PGDB (PostgreSQL)...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Postgres 9.5 Draft Release Notes
The draft Postgres 9.5 release notes are now online. This document will be adjusted regularly until the final release, which is expected later this year.
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Today's update release: NOW it's time to apply
You may have noticed that we've had a lot of churn in PostgreSQL update releases lately, doing three updates in less than two months. We expect that we're done with that now, so it's time to get on...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: What is a Set type?
Yesterday I proposed an Unconference talk about Set types, and I've had a couple of people ask me about what Set types are and what they would be for, so here is a brief rundown.Say you have a table of...
View ArticleDenish Patel: Postgres Replication using Replication Slots
Postgres 9.4 introduced an awesome feature Replication Slots. This allows you to implement Postgres replication without using any external archive management tools. Yesterday, I presented three hours...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.5 feature highlight: archive_mode = always
After seeing an email on pgsql-general about a user willing to be able to archive WAL from a standby to store them locally and to save bandwidth by only receiving the WAL segments through a WAL stream,...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: 10 Ways to Ruin Performance: Functionally Bankrupt
Functions are great. Having cut my teeth on a database that didn’t even provide the ability to define functions, I’ve come to almost take them for granted in PGDB (PostgreSQL). However, with this kind...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Rotfang, the random data generator
The other day I gave a lightning talk at pgCon about a Foreign Data Wrapper called Rotfang, which is for generating arbitrary amounts of random data. This is intended for generating test cases. The...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Conference Slides - 9.5 Json improvements and Rotfang FDW
Here are my slides from pgCon. First, my slides and Dmitry Dolgov's slides from the presentation on 9.5 Json Features, and also those from my lightning talk on the Rotfang Foreign Data Wrapper.
View ArticleBruce Momjian: PgCon 2015 Developer Meeting Photo
This nice photo was taken during this year's PgCon Developer Meeting. My family was surprised at how many other developers they have met over the years. A signed copy of the photo was sold for USD...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PGCon 2015 Unconference: A Community
Well, I’ve returned from PGCon 2015 in Canada, and after a couple days to decompress, it’s time to share. I wrote about the PGCon 2014 unconference after returning to Chicago last year, so I felt it...
View ArticleRaghavendra Rao: Compiling write-able mongo_fdw extension on binary format of...
A short blog to enable write-able mongo_fdw extension in PostgreSQL 9.4. PostgreSQL provides a powerful feature called Foreign Data Wrappers (FDW), which allows DBAs to connect to other data sources...
View ArticleErnst-Georg Schmid: nseq - A datatype for the efficient storage of nucleotide...
The nseq datatype allows to store DNA and RNA sequences consisting of the letters AGCT or AGCU respectively in PostgreSQL.By encoding four bases per Byte, it uses 75 percent less space on disk than...
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Rajeev Rastogi: Presented paper in PGCon 2015 on Native Compilation Technology
I am back from the PGCon 2015 and was fortunate enough to present my first paper on "Native Compilation" technology. Also got opportunity to meet most creamy  folks of PostgreSQL community, found...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: 10 Ways to Ruin Performance: In The Loop
As a database, PGDB (PostgreSQL) is fairly standard in its use of SQL. Developers of all colors however, might have trouble switching gears and thinking in set operations, since so many language...
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Josh Berkus: Elephants in Containers
In the wake of DockerCon, the July meetup in San Francisco will be all about Linux Containers:Chris Winslett of Compose.io will present Governor, an auto-failover system for managing a cluster of...
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Josh Berkus: NDAs at SFPUG: Survey Results
It's boomtime in San Francisco, which means we're also full swing into The Cult of the NDA. This includes many of our venues for SFPUG meetups; they require signing a confidentiality disclaimer before...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostgreSQL OGR FDW update and PostGIS 2.2 news
PostGIS 2.2 is planned to reach feature freeze June 30th 2015 so we can make the September PostgreSQL 9.5 curtain call with confidence. Great KNN enhancements for PostgreSQL 9.5 only users. I've been...
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