PostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News January 23rd 2011
The Call for Papers for the fourth annual Prague PostgreSQL Developers' Day is open. It will be held February 10, 2011 at Charles University in Prague....
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: Another step towards easier backups
Today I committed the first version of a new PostgreSQL tool, pg_basebackup. The backend support was committed a couple of weeks back, but this is the first actual frontend. The goal of this tool is to...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Tablespaces support for omnipitr-backup-*
Really cool news. Thanks to sponsoring from AWeber.com, and code by Brian Dunavant OmniPITR has now support for additional tablespaces in backup creation. This works on both master and slave, and...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.1 – pg_stat_replication
On 7th of January (I know, it was quite some time ago, I apologize for delay) Itagaki Takahiro committed patch: New system view pg_stat_replication displays activity of wal sender processes. Itagaki...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.1 – pg_basebackup
On 23rd of January, Magnus Hagander committed patch which adds: Add pg_basebackup tool for streaming base backups This tool makes it possible to do the pg_start_backup/ copy files/pg_stop_backup step...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.1 – sepgsql
On 24th of January, Robert Haas committed very important patch: sepgsql, an SE-Linux integration for PostgreSQL This is still pretty rough - among other things, the documentation needs work, and the...
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Robert Haas: PostgreSQL 9.1: Neat Stuff is Coming
Up until the last month or so, the development arc for PostgreSQL 9.1 was looking fairly humdrum. Quite a bit of good refactoring and some good general enhancements, but not a lot of sizzle. That...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Storing gender: The more complicated issue …
When people think about storing gender related data the world is usually quite simple. Create a column which allows two different values: Male and female. Basically this is not a major challenge for a...
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Joe Abbate: What is Pyrseas?
“Taming Serpents and Pachyderms” will explore the thinking behind the Pyrseas project, a free and open source software project to develop a framework and utilities to create, upgrade and maintain a...
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David Keeney: More elegant forms of returning records.
Like the blog subtitle says, I learn PL/pgSQL as I go, and share the lessons with you. A couple of weeks ago, I posted on returning a few records using OUT parameters. I used that method because it...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: First cuckoo in spring
I'm not sure if I am the first person who has produced a fully working 64 bit Postgres for Windows, but I haven't heard of anyone else doing it, and that's what I did today using MSys and the Mingw64...
View ArticleGreg Smith: How not to build PostgreSQL 9.0 extensions on RPM platforms
For a long time, adding packages to RedHat derived Linux systems has been called "RPM Hell", for good reason. Particularly before the yum utility came about to help, getting RPM to do the right thing...
View ArticleGreg Smith: Reducing the postgresql.conf, parameter at a time
One of the more useful bits of PostgreSQL documentation I ever worked on is Tuning Your PostgreSQL Server. When that was written in the summer of 2008, a few months after the release of PostgreSQL...
View ArticleJohn DeSoi: pgEdit 2.0 released
pgEdit has been recast as a bundle for TextMate, a highly customizable editor for the Macintosh. This allows pgEdit to take advantage of TextMate's advanced capabilities and focus solely on PostgreSQL...
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Andreas Scherbaum: PostgreSQL@FOSDEM 2011 - Devroom schedule
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumThe FOSDEM team finally puzzled the Pentabarf together and published all Track and Devroom schedules. The PostgreSQL Project has room H.2213 in the main building, on sunday....
View ArticleGreg Smith: Tuning Linux for low PostgreSQL latency
One of the ugly parts of Linux with PostgreSQL is that the OS will happily cache up to around 5% of memory before getting aggressive about writing it out. I've just updated a long list of pgbench runs...
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: How InnoDB performs a checkpoint
InnoDB’s checkpoint algorithm is not well documented. It is too complex to explain in even a long blog post, because to understand checkpoints, you need to understand a lot of other things that InnoDB...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News January 30th 2011
NYPUG is having a meetup on February 15, 2011 at 6:15PM at the Yodle offices on 50 W 23rd St, New York, NY. More info and RSVP at: http://www.meetup.com/postgresql-3/events/16123790/
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: Yes, the mailinglists are down
and along with them, a few other services. From what we can tell, what has happened is that the datacenter that hub.org hosts most of their servers in, in Panama, dropped completely off the Internet...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Getting rid of trigger based replicas
One of my large customers is preparing to migrate to 9.0. One of the things they are excited about is that it means they will be able to get rid of most of their trigger based replicas. These have been...
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