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Bernd Helmle: PostgreSQL at FroSCon 2010
Like last year, the German PostgreSQL User Group will have a Devroom at FroSCon (Sankt Augustin, Germany) this year. There will be talks around PostgreSQL, ASP.NET, the upcoming feature set in 9.0 and...
View ArticleTom Copeland: Rails and PostgreSQL job at Paperless Post
Another Rails and PostgreSQL job, this time at Paperless Post (via the Github jobs board). Looks like they have a few more open positions. And you'd work with Aaron Quint, who's their CTO. Good times!
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Joshua Tolley: Creativity with fuzzy string search
PostgreSQL provides a useful set of contrib modules for "fuzzy" string searching; that is, searching for something that sounds like or looks like the original search key, but that might not exactly...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Starting PostgreSQL in windows without install
This is a question that comes up quite often by windows users, so thought we would share how we normally do it. The question is can you run a PostgreSQL server on your windows desktop/server box...
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Robert Haas: How I Hack on PostgreSQL
Today's post by Dimitri Fontaine gave me the idea of writing a blog posting about the tools I use for PostgreSQL development. I'm not saying that what I do is the best way of doing it (and it's...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Start Your Mirrors!
Work has finally started. We now have mirroring. This was the first task for the project, and it’s now checked off on the status page. Hurrah! This turned out to be a pretty simple task, of course. For...
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Andrew Dunstan: Is Google a big enough Billy Goat Gruff?
So, now it looks like Oracle's new business model for actually making money out of their investment in Sun is to become a patent troll. They seem to be going out of their way to make themselves pariahs...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Thoughts on the Network Directory Structure
I’ve been thinking about the arrangement of stuff to be distributed to the mirrors. In doing so, I’ve kept three goals in mind: Allow things to scale. Try to put things in intuitive locations. Allow...
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Francisco Figueiredo Jr: Npgsql 2.0.10 and NpgsqlParameter.Value
Hi all!As you may already know, Npgsql 2.0.10 is out. Besides the usual batch of bug fixes and enhancements, this release has a new feature which needs more attention as it may give you backward...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Security Meeting in Maryland
I have been invited to attend a Postgres security meeting at OmniTI in Maryland on September 8. The meeting will include other local Postgres community members, government security experts, and...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News August 15th 2010
The Call for Papers for West is open until September 5, 2010. Details at: http://www.postgresqlconference.org/
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Tatsuo Ishii: PostgreSQL 9.0 and pgpool-II endurance test
I have started to run an endurance test of PostgreSQL 9.0beta4 and pgpool-II 3.0-dev on Aug 12 17:47.The hardware: two dual-core opteron 2.2GHz, 2GB mem.One is used for the streaming replication...
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David E. Wheeler: About the Logo
I decided to get on creating the PGXN logo sooner rather that later, both to create a stronger identity for the project and to have a uniform look across the various services (the site, blog, twitter...
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Robert Treat: Now What? (wrt OpenSolaris and your database)
Last week's "announcement" of the death of OpenSolaris has steered a lot of questions my way about where people should go, and/or where OmniTI will go, now that OpenSolaris future looks non-existent....
View ArticleAlexey Klyukin: An update on Replicator
This is my first post on Replicator, I'm going to start by describing the terminology we use, bringing some analogies from other replication systems.Replicator is an asynchronous...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: Sponsoring PGXN
JD Wrote: We are pleased to announce that the PgUS Board has decided to sponsor PGXN. For those who don't know what PGXN is, from the website: PGXN, the PostgreSQL Extension network, is a central...
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Robert Haas: Why We're Conservative With PostgreSQL Minor Releases
Last week, a PostgreSQL user filed bug #5611, complaining about a performance regression in PostgreSQL 8.4 as compared with PostgreSQL 8.2. The regression occurred because PostgreSQL 8.4 is capable of...
View ArticleGuillaume LELARGE: pgAdmin GSoC: Database Designer
Luis Ochoa just finished his GSoC. I really think it is a great success. Wanna get a look at it? just watch this nice video. Unfortunately, I can't commit it right away. There is still work to do....
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Pavel Stehule: divide a table into a partitions
HelloI had to verify a speed of two methods of dividing data to partion. First method is based on dynamic SQL, second is based on cursor scan and prepared statements. I was surprised - both variants...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: RFC: The PGXN Metadata Specification
I’ve posted a draft of the “PGXN distribution metadata specification,” or PGXN Meta Spec.” This document specifies the structure and format of the META.json file that PGXN will require in every...
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