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Pavel Golub: PostgresDAC 2.6.1 Beta 2 is available
Attention should be paid to specific PostgreSQL 9.0.2 features testing especially dump and restore functionality including updated 8.4.6 libraries. Bug with bytea hex representation in PostgreSQL 9.x...
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Denish Patel: CREATE TABLE ... PARTITION BY RANGE . Will it be possible in...
Oracle's easy to create and manage partition table feature is the best selling point for them to attract wide range of applications to use partitioning features easily . Oracle supports partitioning...
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: pgindent vs dash
For those who don't know, pgindent is the tool used to indent the source code of PostgreSQL. dash is the shell that ships as /bin/sh on at least Ubuntu. pgindent requires indent from BSD (we use a...
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Robert Haas: What Kind of Replication Do You Need?
As you probably know by now if you're a regular reader of Planet PostgreSQL, or if you've read the PostgreSQL 9.0 release notes, PostgreSQL 9.0 offers a much-improved form of built-in replication. In...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgEast: 2011, Second call for papers!
January 18th, 2011: Celebrating 15 years of PostgreSQL, early. That's right folks, it is time for second call. Content is being submitted steadily. At PgWest last year, we received well over our...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Reverse String Aggregation: Explode concatenated data...
In our last article we talked about String Aggregation implementing in PostgreSQL, SQL Server, and MySQL. This task is one that makes purist relational database programmers a bit squeamish. In this...
View ArticlePostgreSQL User Group Announcements: Intro to Databases with PostgreSQL -...
Class: Introduction to Databases with PostgreSQL (http://www.postgresql.org/) Instructors: Gabrielle, Mark, & Selena from PDXPUG Place: FreeGeek (http://www.freegeek.org) Date & Time: Tues, Feb...
View ArticleRobert Treat: A present from my filesystem
People ask me why I haven't blogged much lately and I generally tell them I've been busy fixing broken stuff. Then they tell me to blog about the broken stuff I'm fixing. So, ok. Here's a random...
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Pavel Golub: Database Designer for PostgreSQL 1.3.2 Beta available
Support for OpenSSL 1.0c and PostgreSQL 9.0.2 libraries added. Error logging improved. Attention should be paid to specific PostgreSQL 9.0.2 features testing especially SSL encryption support. You’re...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: What's been breaking?
Recently Tom Lane asked me for a new summary view for the PostgreSQL Build Farm. The existing summary view shows the most recent status for each member on each branch in the last 30 days. The new view...
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Robert Haas: Locking in PostgreSQL
Have you ever had one of those annoying problems where a query, or some kind of maintenance task such as vacuum, seems to hang, without making any discernable foreign progress, basically forever? If...
View ArticleAlvaro Herrera: Fixing foreign key deadlocks — submitted
A week ago, I submitted my patch to fix the foreign key lock problem. What I propose is almost exactly what was described in my previous blog posts, with a couple of differences. The first is that I...
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Theo Schlossnagle: Why haven't all my graphs been useful like this?
I don't know now many times I've tried to eyeball a graph from this week against a graph from last week. This is both painful and senseless as my eyeballs simply aren't that good. Enter "the right way...
View ArticleAdrian Klaver: SQL inside Jedit
I use Jedit as my primary text editing tool. I recently ran across a plugin (SQL) to the editor that allows for running SQL from within an editor buffer. What follows is an explanation of how to set...
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David Keeney: Little Bobby Tables
The xkcd comic about 'little bobby tables' is a classic, widely known and often quoted:xkcd: Exploits of a Momthe strip title is 'Exploits of a Mom', and the punch-line is 'I hope you've learned to...
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Andrew Dunstan: A tale of three perls
Sometimes doing things on Windows can be challenging. I have a Windows XP-Pro virtual machine that runs three buildfarm animals, one each for Visual Studio 2008, MIngw and Cygwin. The buildfarm script...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Multiple Client Certificates
It's nice how things turn out sometimes. I got a requirement to support SSL Client Certificates yesterday, and I mentioned to Magnus that pgAdmin3 doesn't have support for multiple certificates, and he...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PostgreSQL vs MySQL @ Oracle NYC Head Quarters NYC (my brain...
In my quest to insure an incredible turnout for PostgreSQL Conference, I contacted the MySQL meetup group in NYC. Of course my reasons were simple, I want MySQL people to show up and see the value of...
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Bernd Helmle: PostgreSQL vs. libreadline on OSX
Today Thom Brown posted a bug report to pgsql-bugs, where he asked for a potential issue with the interactive terminal psql. As the following reply from Tom Lane explained, this is a long standing...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: check_postgres without Nagios (Postgres checkpoints)
Version 2.16.0 of check_postgres, a monitoring tool for Postgres, was just released. We're still trying to keep a "release often" schedule, and hopefully this year will see many releases. In addition...
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