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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: September meeting next week
When: 6-8pm Thursday Sept 17, 2015Where: IovationWho: Eric HansonWhat: 10 examples of dataficationEric, our resident data philosopher and CEO of Aquameta, will talk and give demos on 10 examples of...
View ArticleMarco Slot: cstore_fdw webinar questions
We received a number of interesting questions during this week's webinar entitled "Columnar Store for PostgreSQL Using cstore_fdw". We wanted to elaborate on a few of them."Is it possible/practical to...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.6 feature highlight: Lock names with trace_lwlocks
Today, here is some highlight about a small feature that will available in Postgres 9.6, useful for application and monitoring purposes:commit: aa65de042f5828968f2f6cd65f45c543a40cc3e6 author: Robert...
View ArticleErnst-Georg Schmid: pg_strom - The rough road ahead
Inspired by thosearticles on pg_strom, the CUDA based GPGPU accelerator for PostgreSQL, I decided to repeat the tests.First a caveat. I managed to destroy my Ubuntu 14.04 LTS beyond recoverability with...
View ArticleTerry Erisman: Kenny Gorman, Chief Technologist; Data for Rackspace, Talks...
Kenny Gorman, Chief Technologist; Data for Rackspace, spoke to us recently about PGConf Silicon Valley. Kenny's talk at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015 is Cloud PostgreSQL Automation Management with...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.6 – Allow usage of huge...
On 2nd of September, Teodor Sigaev committed patch: Allow usage of huge maintenance_work_mem for GIN build. Currently, in-memory posting list during GIN build process is limited 1GB because of using...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: When to use json, and when to use jsonb
As well as being able to store JSON in the database, either as plain text (json type) or as a decomposed binary format (jsonb type) PostgreSQL has quite a number of useful utility functions for...
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Tomas Vondra: Friends don't let friends use BTRFS for OLTP
I usually don't write rant-style posts, but today I've decided to make an exception. Over the past few months I've been working on a benchmark comparing how PostgreSQL performs on a variety of Linux...
View ArticleErnst-Georg Schmid: pg_strom - The road ahead!
OK, since my last post, strange things have happened.I reinstalled CUDA from a binary package instead of directly over the Internet from the Nvidia repository. According to the Version numbers, they...
View ArticleMarco Slot: Using Docker to run a pg_shard cluster
Docker is quickly becoming one of the most popular ways of deploying distributed applications. By bundling all dependencies of an application in an easily shippable container, software deployment...
View ArticleDave Cramer: PostgreSQL JDBC 1203 Driver released
Mostly some small bug fixes that didn't get in 1202.fix: Implemented getFunctionsfix: changed getProcedureColumns to getFunctionColumnsfix: CopyManager fails to copy a file, reading just part of the...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Compiling and installing ogr_fdw on CentOS after Yum...
After installing PostgreSQL 9.4 and PostGIS following An Almost Idiot's guide to installing PostgreSQL, PostGIS, and pgRouting, on my CentOS 6.7 64-bit except replacing 9.3 references with equivalent...
View ArticleGulcin Yildirim: Tablesample and Other Methods for Getting Random Tuples
PostgreSQL’s TABLESAMPLE brings a few more advantages compared to other traditional ways for getting random tuples.TABLESAMPLE is a SQL SELECT clause and it provides two sampling methods which are...
View ArticleJignesh Shah: Is it a privilege to run a container in Docker?
Recently while working with various applications in a docker container, we came across few containers that will not run properly unless privileged mode is enabled. The privileged mode gives the...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Skype outage? reSIProcate to the rescue!
On Friday, the reSIProcate community released the latest beta of reSIProcate 1.10.0. One of the key features of the 1.10.x release series is support for presence (buddy/status lists) over SIP, the very...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: pgstrom: PostgreSQL on a GPU … Joins
In my previous post I have shared some GPU performance data, which were mostly related to aggregation. Given the information I have found on the pgstrom wiki page, I decided to give joins a try to see,...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.6 – Add log_line_prefix option ‘n’...
On 7th of September, Jeff Davis committed patch: Add log_line_prefix option 'n' for Unix epoch. Prints time as Unix epoch with milliseconds. Tomas Vondra, reviewed by Fabien Coelho. This could be...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.6 – Allow per-tablespace...
On 8th of September, Alvaro Herrera committed patch: Allow per-tablespace effective_io_concurrency Per discussion, nowadays it is possible to have tablespaces that have wildly different I/O...
View ArticleTerry Erisman: PGConf Silicon Valley Schedule Now Online
I am pleased to announce that the full schedule of speakers and events for the first annual PGConf Silicon Valley conference is now available on the new conference website. Breakout session tracks...
View ArticlePaul Ramsey: 2.2.0rc1 Available
This is it, PostGIS 2.2 is almost out the door, so we’re looking for testing and feedback! Please give the release candidate a try and report back any issues you encounter....
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