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Joshua Drake: PostgreSQL, FOSS, SCALE, NYCPUG, SPI, LFNW and Ruby oh my!
Three weeks ago I was in Pasadena for SCALE 14. I had over 100 people in my room as I blistered the behind of PostgreSQL and how it handles backups. If you are interested in seeing my considered...
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Pavan Deolasee: Postgres-XL 9.5R1Beta1 is here!
I’m extremely pleased to see that after months of efforts and contributions by different people around the world, Postgres-XL 9.5 R1 Beta1 has finally arrived. This release is significantly better, in...
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Álvaro Herrera: Managing a PostgreSQL Commitfest
If you’ve been following PostgreSQL development for the last few years, you’ve probably heard the term commitfest manager a few times. You probably already know what a commitfest is, but why is there...
View ArticleThom Brown: PostgreSQL 9.6 - Part 1 - Horizontal Scalability
PostgreSQL 9.6 is shaping up to be an impressive release, so I thought I'd try to summarise some of the big features and improvements that it will bring. This certainly won't be exhaustive, but it will...
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damien clochard: DB2toPG, an automated tool for DB2 migration
Tired of your old DB2 databases ? Here’s a new migration kit that will ship your data to PostgreSQL !Marc Cousin, one of my teamates at Dalibo released yesterday a new migration called db2topg. As he’s...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Replacing Business Logic
Back in 2005, I started a new job with a company that did work for other businesses. Their data model was designed by developers and they had no DBA, as is pretty common in smaller organizations. A...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: JSONB, PostgreSQL and Go
Just ran across this excellent pair of blog posts on using JSONB with Go application design to simplify your data model. Since that blog is not syndicated on Planet Postgres, reblogging it so that...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Release 4.17 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client
I have just cut release 4.17 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client. It is available at http://www.pgbuildfarm.org/downloads/latest-client.tgz. Changes of note: use PGCTLTIMEOUT instead of hardcoded...
View ArticleChris Travers: A couple annoyances (and solutions) regarding partitioned tables
In one of my projects we had an issue where a large table that was under huge transactional load was having trouble with autovacuum not keeping up. The problem was that the table sometimes held over...
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Gulcin Yildirim: FLOSS UK Spring Conference
Floss UK Spring conference will be held on 15th-17th of March in London.The conference is the UK’s oldest conference aimed specifically at systems and network administrators. It attracts a large number...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: PgDay: LFNW!
JD Wrote:Once again United States PostgreSQL is present at Linux Fest Northwest. We are celebrating Free and Open Source software with 2000 other advocates in what is the second largest Free & Open...
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Gulcin Yildirim: Are we ready for Nordic PGDay?
The 3rd annual Nordic PGDay will be held on 17th of March in Helsinki this year. Registration is still open, reserve yourselves a seat before it’s too late!Nordic PGDay is visiting a different Nordic...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: The Plan for FDW-Based Sharding
Earlier this week I posted an email to the hackers list outlining a plan for built-in sharding. Later emails in the thread clarify many of my initial remarks. (I also posted a presentation about this a...
View Articlesolaimurugan vellaipandian: RPostgreSQL Data analytics on PostgreSQL data...
RPostgreSQL - Data analytics on PostgreSQL data from R previous post - XGBoost in R. Error in xgb.DMatrix can not open file Data analytics on PostgreSQL data using R. Working with R and PostgreSQL for...
View ArticleReuven Lerner: [Video 452] Jignesh Shah: PostgreSQL and Linux Containers
A growing number of organizations are using containers, such as docker, to deploy applications and parts of their infrastructure. How well do contains work with a database such as PostgreSQL? What do...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Corralling the Hordes
Ah, users. They log in, query things, accidentally delete critical data, and drop tables for giggles. Bane or boon, user accounts are a necessary evil in all databases for obvious reasons. And what...
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Oleg Bartunov: 20-th Anniversary of PostgreSQL in Saint Petersburg !
Today I found this screenshot of two talks, which we presented at PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit in Toronto, July 8-9, 2006. That time we felt ourselves as a provincial "never-seen" hackers from other...
View ArticleSzymon Lipiński: Storing Statistics JSON Data in PostgreSQL
We have plenty of Liquid Galaxy systems, where we write statistical information in json files. This is quite a nice solution. However we end with a bunch of files on a bunch of machines.Inside we have...
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Craig Kerstiens: Hands On Postgres Sharding
Back in 2012 I wrote an overview of database sharding. Since then I’ve had a few questions about it, which have really increased in frequency over the last two months. As a result I thought I’d do a...
View ArticleSzymon Lipiński: Converting JSON to PostgreSQL values, simply
In the previous post I showed a simple PostgreSQL table for storing JSON data. Let's talk about making the JSON data easier to use.One of the requirements was to store the JSON from the files...
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