Christophe Pettus: Django 1.8/1.9 and PostgreSQL: An Ever-Closer Union
I’ll be speaking about Django and PostgreSQL at PyCon US 2016.
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: A new version of Planet PostgreSQL
I have just pushed code for a new version of the codebase for Planet PostgreSQL.For those of you who are just reading Planet, hopefully nothing at all should change. There will probably be some bugs...
View ArticleChris Travers: Why Commons Should Not Have Ideological Litmus Tests
This will likely be my last post on this topic. I would like to revive this blog on technical rather than ideological issues but there seems like a real effort to force ideology in some cases. I...
View ArticleFederico Campoli: Brigthton PostgreSQL Meetup news
I've been busy recently and I failed to update on the last meetup news.I apologise for that. We had a very interesting meetup in January.Alexey Bashtanov explained how the grouping works in postgres...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: PostgreSQL YUM repo receives largest update set, ever.
Today, the PostgreSQL Global Development Group announced new minor releases for all supported version: 9.5.1, 9.4.6, 9.3.11, 9.2.15 and 9.1.20. As usual, RPMs are out, too: http://yum.PostgreSQL.org...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Indexes Are Not Cheap
I’ve noticed an increasing tendency in PostgreSQL users to over-index tables, often constructing very complex partial indexes to try to speed up very particular queries.Be careful about doing this. Not...
View ArticlePavan Deolasee: Postgres-XL: Dealing with read-only transactions
One of the problems with Postgres-XL 9.2 is that it assigns a global transaction identifier (GXID) for every transaction that is started in the cluster. Since its hard for the system to know if a...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Database and Schema Basics
Sure, managing a Postgres cluster is great. We’ve got the software installed, more tool wrappers than we can wave several sticks at, and a running cluster that’s ready to do our bidding. But what do we...
View ArticleErnst-Georg Schmid: Fun with a integrarelational DBMS: SoilGrids
PostgreSQL has many ways to extend it's capabilities in well defined ways: Custom datatypes, custom functions, custom operators, even custom indexes.And then there's the Foreign Data Wrapper, an API to...
View ArticleOleg Bartunov: About "bikeshedding" in Postgres world
Some of my younger colleagues by Postgres Professional, who recently open the world of postgres hackers, sometimes wonder about meaning some jargon words, which they don't well understand. Recent...
View ArticlePavan Deolasee: Looking forward to PGDay India 2016
With just couple of weeks to go for PGDay India, I’m quite excited about the upcoming PostgreSQL conference at Bangalore on 26th February, 2016. This is going to be the biggest ever conglomeration of...
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Andreas Scherbaum: PgConf.Russia 2016
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumI had the honor to present at PgConf.Russia 2016. It's probably the biggest PostgreSQL conference in Europe (News report), even bigger than pgconf.eu. It shows that PostgreSQL,...
View ArticleCraig Ringer: Failover slots for PostgreSQL
Logical decoding and logical replication is getting more attention in the PostgreSQL world. This means we need it working well alongside production HA systems – and it turns out there’s a problem...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: How we made the PGConf US 2016 Schedule
Welcome to our annual post on how we put together the schedule for the largest PostgreSQL conference in North America. It is long, thorough, and awesome, so buckle up and enjoy the journey!For PGConf...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.6 – Remove GROUP BY columns that...
On 11th of February, Tom Lane committed patch: Remove GROUP BY columns that are functionally dependent on other columns. If a GROUP BY clause includes all columns of a non-deferred primary key, as...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: FOSSASIA 2016, pgDay Asia 2016 and MiniDebConf Singapore
The FOSSASIA 2016 conference is taking place next month, 18-20 March at the Science Centre Singapore. The FOSSASIA community has also offered to host a MiniDebConf Singapore 2016 and pgDay Asia 2016....
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Always Do This #5: The Elements of postgresql.conf Style
Everyone has their own style, unfortunately, on how they edit postgresql.conf. Some like to uncommon specific values and edit them at the point they appear in the default file, some like to tack...
View ArticleErnst-Georg Schmid: The Devil is in the details: Returning bytea from PL/R
If you return an R object from PL/R as bytea, it is passed through the R serialization interface.This is mentioned in the fine manual, but not really prominently so.I assume the rationale behind this...
View ArticleJim Mlodgenski: Building PostgreSQL on Windows for Performance
Before PostgreSQL 9.1, adding additional features like data types was non-standard and awkward, but 9.1 brought extensions. By adding extensions as well as the plumbing for things like foreign data...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: Installing and running PostgreSQL 9.5 using RPMs on...
PostgreSQL 9.5 was released recently. We released PostgreSQL 9.5 RPMs at the same day. In this blog post, I am going to write you how to install PostgreSQL 9.5 on RHEL/CentOS/Scientific Linux/Oracle...
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