Leo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostGIS 2.2.0 windows bundle for PostgreSQL 9.5beta2...
We just pushed out installers for PostGIS 2.2.0 for PostgreSQL 9.5beta2 windows both 32-bit and 64-bit on Application Stackbuilder. These installers are also available as standalone listed on PostGIS...
View ArticleAlexey Lesovsky: Introduction to pg_stat_activity.
PostgreSQL RDBMS has a very informative built-in tools to track the state of the database. One such tool is pg_stat_activity. This is a system view that allows to monitor the databases processes in...
View ArticleFederico Campoli: Meetup live hangout
Three days to go for the next Brighton PostgreSQL meetup.I'll run a live hangout of the talk.You can join the event there.https://plus.google.com/events/cge4691km5qm8euj4erkcp7jecsThe record will...
View ArticleVasilis Ventirozos: Backups Restores and PITR nowdays
Its been almost a year since 9.4 was released, it included many nice features, but the one that changed my day to day administration was replication slots.In OmniTI , we use something called OmniPITR a...
View Articlesolaimurugan vellaipandian: RPostgresql : how to pass dynamic parameter to...
RPostgresql : R and PostgreSQL Database previous post - Working with Association in R Working with RPostgreSQL package How to pass dynamic / runtime parameter to dbGetQuery in RPostgrSQL ? #use...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Flexible grouping: Some dirty SQL trickery
While doing PostgreSQL consulting for a German client, I stumbled over an interesting issue this week, which might be worth sharing with some folks out on the Internet, it’s all about grouping. Suppose...
View ArticlePaul Ramsey: PostGIS Gotchas @ PgConfSV 2015
I attended PgConf Silicon Valley a couple weeks ago and gave a new talk about aspects of PostGIS that come as a surprise to new users. Folks in Silicon Valley arrive at PostGIS with lots of technical...
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Amit Kapila: Parallel Sequential Scans in play
Parallelism is now reality in PostgreSQL. With 9.6, I hope we will see manydifferent form of queries that can use parallelism to execute. For now, I willlimit this discussion to what we can already...
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: Node, Postgres, MassiveJS - A better database experience
First some background–I’ve always had a bit of a love hate relationship with ORMs. ORMs are great for basic crud applications, which inevitably happens at some point for an app. The main two problems I...
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Terry Erisman: First Annual PGConf Silicon Valley Wrap Up
The first annual PGConf Silicon Valley conference was a big success thanks to the speakers, attendees, sponsors, and Conference Committee who came together to create a lively, engaging experience for...
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Jim Mlodgenski: PostgreSQL Studio 2.0 is out
PostgreSQL Studio is a fully open source web based UI for PostgreSQL that is ideal for Postgres in the cloud. With the impending release of PostgreSQL 9.5, PostgreSQL Studio 2.0 has just been released...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.6 feature highlight: COPY and DML statements
A new set of queries that can be handled in COPY statement (as well as psql's \copy) has been added in PostgreSQL 9.6 by the following commit:commit: 92e38182d7c8947a4ebbc1123b44f1245e232e85 author:...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: pgDay Asia 2016: Call for Presentation has started
As I sent the announce to pgsql-announce a few days ago, we are pleased to announce the first pan-Asian PostgreSQL conference in March 2016 in Singapore. pgDay Asia 2016 http://2016.pgday.asia/ pgDay...
View ArticleCraig Ringer: When are we going to contribute BDR to PostgreSQL?
My colleagues and I are often asked “when will you (2ndQuadrant) contribute BDR to PostgreSQL”.This makes an interesting assumption: that we have not already done so. We have. Much of BDR has already...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Displaced Durability
A lot of DBAs are quite adamant regarding ACID compliance. I count myself among them. But unlike the other parts of the acronym, there are times when data durability isn’t actually a high priority....
View ArticleDenish Patel: Let’s hangout w/ Postgres people on Slack!
While casual discussions with postgres users at onferences and/or online, I came across this question for at least 3-4 times; “Is there a Slack channel for Postgres?” The answer was “No”.The idea...
View ArticleAndreas 'ads' Scherbaum: 1st South Bay PostgreSQL Meetup in 2016
The 1st South Bay PostgreSQL Meetup in 2016 will take place on January 5th, in Palo Alto.Please sign up here.Speakers:Gwen Shapira: Kafka for DBAsJignesh Shah: PostgreSQL and Linux Containers
View ArticleUmair Shahid: Creating a PostgreSQL Service on Ubuntu
Ok, so you have a PostgreSQL distribution on your Ubuntu server. You have created the data directory and initialized the database. Now you want to run the server in a way that users can start, stop,...
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Nikhil Sontakke: Virtual IP Failover for PostgreSQL in AWS
We at SecureDB rely on the highly rated open source enterprise-class PostgreSQL database. In an earlier blog post, we laid down the reasons as to why SecureDB chose PostgreSQL as its backend of...
View ArticleArtur Zakirov: Dictionaries and PostgreSQL FTS
IntroductionThere are some text search operator in PostgreSQL: LIKE (~~), ILIKE (~~*), ~, ~* and SIMILAR TO. But they have important disadvantage - they do not provide linguistic support. For example,...
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