Andrew Dunstan: Using PostgreSQL 9.5's IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA
This is a pretty nice feature in 9.5. The other day I needed to look at some data from a WordPress site that's stored in MySQL. I had a dump of the data, but I'm not terribly proficient at using MySQL...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Database Creation Workshop
Postgres theory, feature discussion, and advocacy are fun. But even I’ll admit it’s nice to have some practical application every once in a while. This week, we’re going to build an actual database.But...
View ArticleDavid Christensen: PostgreSQL Point-in-time Recovery: An Unexpected Journey
With all the major changes and improvements to PostgreSQL's native replication system through the last few major releases, it's easy to forget that there can be benefits to having some of the tried...
View ArticleDenish Patel: Analyzing effect on default_statistics_target on ANALYZE
Last week, I received request to increase PostgreSQL’s config parameter default_statistics_target on one of the very large DB clusters. The developers filled a ticket to increase the...
View ArticleQuinn Weaver: Blocked by rdsadmin
One of our clients on RDS had a VACUUM FREEZE that was hanging for a long time. "I bet it's waiting on a lock," I thought. Yup, but the curious part is what it was waiting on: a mysterious process run...
View ArticleAndreas 'ads' Scherbaum: 2nd South Bay PostgreSQL Meetup in 2016
The 2nd South Bay PostgreSQL Meetup in 2016 will take place on March 8th, in San Jose.Please sign up here.Speakers:Christophe Pettus: PostgreSQL High Availability, 2016 EditionDerek Nelson: PipelineDB:...
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Gabriele Bartolini: Redislog: Integrating PostgreSQL with Logstash for devops...
During the last October’s Italian PGDay and European PostgreSQL conference, my friend Marco Nenciarini and I had the pleasure to talk about a new open source plugin for PostgreSQL, called redislog.In...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Buildfarm server moving
Today we're moving the buildfarm server to a new machine and more modern Postgres. Here is yesterday's (corrrected) announcement:Apologies for the late notice. Tomorrow, January 19th, at 4.00 pm US...
View ArticleMarco Slot: cstore_fdw 1.4 released
Citus Data is excited to announce the release of cstore_fdw 1.4. cstore_fdw is an open source columnar store extension for PostgreSQL that compresses your database tables and reduces disk...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PLV8 binaries for PostgreSQL 9.5 windows both 32-bit...
I've built pl/v8 for PostgreSQL 9.5 both 32-bit and 64-bit.I built basically using these instructions on my gist gist page.Continue reading "PLV8 binaries for PostgreSQL 9.5 windows both 32-bit and...
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Tomas Vondra: Performance limits of logical replication solutions
In the previous blog post, I briefly explained how we got the performance numbers published in the pglogical announcement. In this blog post I’d like to discuss the performance limits of logical...
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gabrielle roth: Postgres FDW, one year later
I’ve been using Postgres’ foreign data wrappers for about a year now. Stuff I’ve learned/done: – Those of you on 9.5 can use the new IMPORT FOREIGN SCHEMA. If you’re not quite there yet, Leo and...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Foreign Data Wrappers for PostgreSQL 9.5 windows
FDW binaries for PostgreSQL 9.5 windows 64-bit/32-bitAs you may have noticed we've been building our favorite extensions which we'll use in our PostgreSQL 9.5 installs. Next on our list are the...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: Please join us for testing 9.6!
PostgreSQL 9.6 is coming with some great features, and one of them is parallelism. Robert Haas committed a series of commits about it, and recently he added support for both parallel sequential scan...
View ArticleUmair Shahid: Postgres-XL 9.5: Gearing Towards the Beta Release
PostgreSQL has typically been described as an OLTP-friendly database and has generally been put to the side for OLAP workloads. While I disagree with this notion to begin with, the new Big Data...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: A simple JSON difference function
More as an example than anything else, I wanted a function that would take two JSONB objects in PostgreSQL, and return how the left-hand side differs from the right-hand side. This means any key that...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: JSON Home Improvement at SCALE 14x
The slides from my presentation, JSON Home Improvement at SCALE 14x, are now available.
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Joining the Big Leagues
I’ve maintained since about 2011, that the problem with scaling Postgres to truly immense installations could be solved by a query coordinator. Why? Most sharding systems utilize an application-level...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Fixed length record files
I've had a few requests recently for support for the Fixed Length File FDW that I created as an experiment about 5 years ago. Apparently people are still getting data from COBOL programs or some such...
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Mark Wong: SCALE 14x
I had the pleasure of speaking about PostgreSQL performance at The 14th Annual Southern California Linux Expo and meeting many enthusiastic database users in the expo hall. There was a great turnout of...
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