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Robert Haas: Troubleshooting Database Unresponsiveness
From time to time, we get complaints on the pgsql-performance mailing list about a PostgreSQL database that - for the most part - performs reasonably well, but every once in a while it becomes...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Auto refreshing password file for pgbouncer
As you perhaps know I’m fan of pgbouncer – connection pooling solution for PostgreSQL. It can do many really cool things, but has one slight issue. Since it can reuse connections – it has to provide a...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Foreign Data Wrapper fun
I've just started playing with the SQL/MED foreign data wrapper patch, and particularly the file_fdw module. First order of the day has been to get it applied against head, fix the bitrot, and get it...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: RHEL 6 and the Return of wal_sync_method
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 came out a couple weeks ago, and with it a new annoyance for PostgreSQL users. This story starts with PostgreSQL refusing to start up, and moves to with fiddling with a...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News December 5th 2010
MicroOLAP Database Designer 1.3.0 for PostgreSQL released. http://microolap.com/products/database/postgresql-designer/
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Andreas Scherbaum: Preparing PGDay.EU 2010 in Stuttgart
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumIt's this time of the year again: the Annual European PostgreSQL Conference (PGDay.EU 2010) is near. The last weeks were very busy. We had an online meeting every week, ordered...
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: Awesome Postgres/MySQL cross-pollination
There have been a few great blog posts recently from MySQL bloggers about Postgres, and vice versa, with good comments and follow-on from the real experts in both systems. I think this is wonderful....
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Robert Haas: The Cost of Page Faults
Over Thanksgiving, I wrote a bit about some work I did profiling PostgreSQL, and about squeezing a bit of overhead out of the backend shutdown process. After making that change, I did some further...
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Andreas Scherbaum: First day of PGDay.Eu 2010
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumThe first day of PGDay:EU 2010 was cool. All the work done yesterday now paid out: registration for everyone took only seconds and nobody had to wait. The conference started with...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: PostgreSQL Clustering with Red Hat Cluster Suite slides are...
I presented an updated version of talk at PGDay.EU 2010. You can download it here.
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: Attention : 9.0.1 **OR** RHEL 6 RPM users
I have an important announcement for 9.0 RPM users. Continue reading "Attention : 9.0.1 **OR** RHEL 6 RPM users"
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Looking for an Intermediate Sysadmin + Junior DBA
Command Prompt, Inc. is looking for an intermediate systems administrator and junior PostgreSQL administrator. Command Prompt has provided PostgreSQL support, development, and hosting since 1997. We...
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Andreas Scherbaum: Second day of PGDay.Eu 2010
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumThe second conference day started with stress: the schedule was wrong in the booklet, the first talks in the morning were scheduled with 20 minutes instead of 50. This was the...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Learning by example.
I asked someone today not to top-post on the hackers mailing list. He asked privately what that meant, and as I looked around briefly for links, I discovered this gem, which caused me some amusement:...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PL/R Part 2: Functions that take arguments and the...
In Intro to PL/R and R, we covered how to enable PL/R language in the database and wrote some PL/R functions that rendered plain text reports using the R environment. What makes combining R and...
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Pavel Stehule: Iteration over record in PL/pgSQL
Hello A iteration over record in PL/pgSQL is old well known problem. When we try to write a general triggers in PL/pgSQL we can find a break, because we are not able to iterate over record. There was a...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: R.I.P. PostgreSQL (Mammoth) Replicator
In 2004, PostgreSQL Core Team member Josh Berkus wrote[1]: "Slony-I is undoubtedly our most popular replication tool. It supports Master-Slave High Availability Replication. However, there are a number...
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Andreas Scherbaum: PGDay.EU 2010 - Kart racing
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumOn tuesday evening, after the conference, we went to a kart racing arena near Stuttgart. This event was announced in the first mail to all participants, although there was no...
View ArticleGabrielle Roth: Installing PostgreSQL from source on Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick...
About a month ago, I rebuilt my laptop with Ubuntu 10.10. This week, while I was waiting around to be selected for jury duty, I decided I should be constructive with my time instead of just getting...
View ArticleGuillaume LELARGE: Attendees of PGDay.eu 2010, send your feedback please
Now that PGDay.eu 2010 is over, this is a good time for us to think about what we did right and, perhaps more important, what we did wrong. You can help us on that work by telling us what you think...
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