Takayuki Tsunakawa: Join the survey to expand PostgreSQL ecosystem
Great features, but less popularityThanks to the long and hard effort by the community, PostgreSQL has been evolving to be a really great software comparable to existing strong commercial products....
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Álvaro Herrera: Code coverage stats
Many years ago, Michelle Caise submitted a patch to generate code coverage reports for the PostgreSQL code base, based on the lcov utility. Although I cannot find any record of an actual patch in the...
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Pavan Deolasee: Postgres-XL 9.5r1 has finally arrived!
After months of efforts, I’m pleased that Postgres-XL 9.5r1 is seeing the daylight. It has been tremendous collective efforts by many, both inside and outside 2ndQuadrant. Often it’s not visible via...
View ArticleÁlvaro Herrera: 9.6 Scariest Patch Tournament
PostgreSQL’s Release Management Team is requesting your input on patches that are most likely to cause bugs or instability. I’m sure you have an opinion on that! Please cast your votes by filling this...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Registering PostgreSQL as a service on Windows
In my experience many big PostgreSQL instances are on Linux / UNIX these days. However, recently we have seen quite a number of Windows systems running PostgreSQL for a bigger production system. There...
View ArticleTomas Vondra: On the usefulness of expression indexes
When teaching PostgreSQL trainings, both on basics and advanced topics, I often find out the attendees have very little idea how powerful the expression indexes may be (if they are aware of them at...
View ArticleRobert Haas: PostgreSQL 9.6 with Parallel Query vs. TPC-H
I decided to try out parallel query, as implemented in PostgreSQL 9.6devel, on the TPC-H queries. To do this, I followed the directions at https://github.com/tvondra/pg_tpch - thanks to Tomas Vondra...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PGConfUS 2016 PostGIS slides and tutorial material
We gave a PostGIS Intro Training and a PostGIS talk at PGConfUS 2016 in Brooklyn, New York and just got back. A number of people asked if we'd make the slides and material available. We have these...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.6 – Add a \gexec command to psql...
On 4th of April, Tom Lane committed patch: Add a \gexec command to psql for evaluation of computed queries. \gexec executes the just-entered query, like \g, but instead of printing the results it...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Growing Pains
Postgres is a great tool for most databases. Larger installations however, pretty much require horizontal scaling; addressing multi-TB tables relies on multiple parallel storage streams thanks to the...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.6 – Phrase full text search.
On 7th of April, Teodor Sigaev committed patch: Phrase full text search. Patch introduces new text search operator (<-> or <DISTANCE>) into tsquery. On-disk and binary in/out format of...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG April Meeting recap
What a great meeting last night! Made me feel a bit better about missing PgConf.USWe had a good turnout, too; several first-timers showed up, some hauling themselves all the way in from Nike &...
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Álvaro Herrera: Column Store Plans
Over at pgsql-general, Bráulio Bhavamitra asks:I wonder if there is any plans to move postgresql entirely to a columnar store (or at least make it an option), maybe for version 10?This is a pretty...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.6 feature highlight: pg_rewind and timeline switches
pg_rewind, a utility introduced in PostgreSQL 9.5 allowing one to reconnect a master to one of its promoted standbys, making unnecessary the need of a new base backup and hence saving a huge amount of...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: You are my fellow community member
I attended the fantastically presented PgConf US 2016 last week. An amazing conference, my training was well attended, my talk was at capacity, the 20th Anniversary Party was phenomenal and the...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Non-Relational Postgres
Having worked on Postgres for twenty years, I have seen a lot of features added. However, I usually evaluate new features in isolation and rarely see the big picture of how they fit together. Last...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Migrating from Oracle: One word about pg_type
After spending pretty much the entire week on freeing a customer from the chains of Oracle’s license policy, I found an interesting issue, which made me smile: When the Oracle code was built 15 years...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Join us for the 3rd pgCon User Unconference
This year, we're continuing to experiment with new formats for the pgCon unconference. In 2013 and 2014 we had an Unconference on the Saturday of pgCon. In 2015 we had a limited Developer...
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Pavel Golub: POSTGRES.chat
If you ever need quick help with PostgreSQL from other people (sure, you should check manuals first) just remember one link POSTGRES.chat.On this page you will find links to online chats, e.g. Slack,...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.6 – Support \crosstabview in psql
On 8th of April, Alvaro Herrera committed patch: Support \crosstabview in psql \crosstabview is a completely different way to display results from a query: instead of a vertical display of rows, the...
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