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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: June meeting
When: 6-8pm Thursday June 16, 2016Where: IovationWho: Josh BerkusWhat: HA PostgreSQL Cluster In A BoxJosh Berkus, crazy container guy and core team member, will demonstrate high availability Postgres...
View ArticleREGINA OBE: FOSS4GNA 2016: pgRouting - A Crash course video is out
Leo's pgRouting : a Crash Course video made it thru great. Better than mine. Leo doesn't believe in slides, so this is all live demo stuff. The data he used in the video is part of our code/data...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Using wal-e with Postgres on a non-standard port
I just discovered after a great deal of puzzlement and far too much time that if you run multiple instances of Postgres on a machine, and you're using wal-e for continuous backup, you'll need an entry...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Recent Slides
PostgreSQL, When It’s Not Your Job from PGCon 2016.The PCI Compliant Database from PGCon 2016PostgreSQL Proficiency for Python People from PyCon US 2016.Django and PostgreSQL, an Ever-Closer Union from...
View ArticleDmitry Dolgov: How to convert your data to jsonb?
“How to start” is always a difficult question, and jsonb isn’t an exception. Here are few notes about converting different types of data into jsonb, that someone can find useful.Basically there are...
View ArticleUmair Shahid: Using Java Object Oriented Querying (jOOQ) with PostgreSQL
jOOQ is an ORM-alternative that is relational model centric rather than domain model centric like most ORMs. For example, while Hibernate lets you write Java code and then automatically translates it...
View ArticleFederico Campoli: Another evening with PostgreSQL
Thanks to the Ferrara's University, departement of Engineering I'll attend to another evening with PostgreSQL.This time the event will be a seminary with all talks made by me.The first talk will cover...
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Craig Kerstiens: Five mistakes beginners make when working with databases
When you start out as a developer there’s an overwhelming amount of things to grasp. First there’s the language itself, then all the quirks of the specific framework you’re using,and after that (or...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.6 feature highlight: Tracking of wait events
PostgreSQL 9.6 is introducing a new in-core infrastructure to help in the tracking of wait events for backend processes which has been introduced by this commit mainly and some other subcommits:commit:...
View ArticleDaniel Pocock: Working to pass GSoC
GSoC students have officially been coding since 23 May (about 2.5 weeks) and are almost half-way to the mid-summer evaluation (20 - 27 June). Students who haven't completed some meaningful work before...
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Keith Fiske: Cleaning Up PostgreSQL Bloat
As a followup to my previous post on checking for bloat, I figured I’d share some methods for actually cleaning up bloat once you find it. I’ll also be providing some updates on the script I wrote due...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Removing a Buildfarm client/server perl dependency
With one very small exception, there is nothing in the buildfarm server that requires the client to be running perl, even though both the server and the standard client are written in perl.Andreas...
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Alexander Korotkov: Drawing Graphs Directly in Psql
For people who are actively working with psql, it frequently happens that you want to draw graph for the table you’re currently seeing. Typically, it means a cycle of actions including: exporting data,...
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Joe Abbate: The Future of Pyrseas – Part 1
In the early days of the Pyrseas project, I read about some open source projects being abandoned due to their developers losing interest or perhaps becoming involved elsewhere and thought to myself...
View ArticleShaun M. Thomas: PG Phriday: Moving to 9.5
There comes a day in every young database’s life that it’s time to move on. I’m sorry 9.4, but the day has come that we must say goodbye. It’s not like we haven’t had our good times. While I truly...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Spreading the conference love
The PostgreSQL community has a lot of conferences in the United States:PgUS United States PostgreSQL Conference Citus Data PgConfSVPgUS SCALE PgDay (which as of 2016 is really a conference within a...
View ArticleNikolay Shaplov: Postgres: Reloptions string -> enum
While rewriting reloption.c code, I came to an idea, that all string reloptions that are used in the code are actually enum reloptions: just a fixed list of string constants, nothing more.One string...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Postgres migration speedup with table change analysis
(A Unicode rabbit face 🐰 will never be as cute as this real bunny. Photo by Wade Simmons) One of our clients recently reached out to us for help in upgrading their Postgres database. The use of the...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Incrementing counters in database
Some time ago someone on irc asked about creating fast counters for something (banners I think). I talked with her (him?) about it, but figured, I can as well write a blogpost, so others can use it...
View ArticleKaarel Moppel: Estimating table bloat in PostgreSQL
Recently there have been a couple of very exhaustive and rather technical posts on Planet Postgresql on the topic of bloat. Bloat in short, for those new to Postgres, is an unescapable byproduct of...
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