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Francisco Figueiredo Jr: New Android Blog
Hi all!I've been playing with Android for quite some time now and so I decided to create a blog where I'll talk about my experience with the platform and the projects I'm developing for it.The blog...
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Tatsuo Ishii: Pgpool-II 3.0/pgpoolAdmin 3.0 beta1 released
After 3 months of hard work, pgpool-II 3.0/pgpoolAdmin 3.0 beta1 is finally out.(details)Please join the beta test program. Comments and suggestions are welcome!Many people helped us in making this...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: OmniPITR – hot backup on slave
Well, the biggest information is that hot-backups on slave work. And they work fine. Really fine. Some more information (with nice graph!): Background: hot backup is backup of database server, done...
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Theo Schlossnagle: Designing for vendor malfunctions
Many people have asked me how Oracle's recent actions will affect OmniTI and our clients. As you may or may not know, a considerable amount of OmniTI's internal infrastructure is built around the...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Using LTree to Represent and Query Hierarchy and Tree...
PostgreSQL offers several options for displaying and querying tree like structures. In Using Recursive Common Table Expressions (CTE) to represent tree structures we demonstrated how to use common...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: A RESTful Directory
Following my post outlining a possible network directory structure, Aristotle Pagaltzis saw fit to bug me via email about a different approach. I couldn’t understand WTF he was talking about until...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News August 22nd 2010
Call for Papers for PGDay.EU 2010 held on December 6-8 in Stuttgart, Germany is open. http://2010.pgday.eu/callforpapers
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Hot to manage changes to your database?
Every now and then somebody asks how to make diff of database schemata. Usual background is like: we have production database, and development database, and we want to see what is different on...
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Korry Douglas: Anatomy of a FOR loop – part 2
In the first part of this series (see here), I discussed the integer-based FOR loop and described some of the nitty-gritty details that you really should know to ensure that your code works properly in...
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Korry Douglas: Anatomy of a FOR loop – part 3
In parts 1 and 2 of this series (see here and here), I described many of the (otherwise under-documented) features of the PL/pgSQL FOR loop. In this last installment, I’ll show you how to loop over...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Adding enums
While on a 15 hour plane trip from LA to Sydney the other day I broke the back of making enums extensible, thus proving that there is some good to be had from both long plane flights and tiny netbooks....
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Francisco Figueiredo Jr: Npgsql receives donation of an MSDN subscription!!
Hi all!It all started when Josh Cooley told me about this post: http://devlicio.us/blogs/tuna_toksoz/archive/2010/07/27/codebetter-devlicio-us-msdn-ultimate-giveaways.aspxI sent a mail talking about...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.1 – concat, concat_ws, right,...
On 24th of August, Takahiro Itagaki committed patch: Log Message: ----------- Add string functions: concat(), concat_ws(), left(), right(), and reverse(). Pavel Stehule, reviewed by me. What are...
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Robert Haas: Version Numbering
Over the last few days, there's been a debate raging on pgsql-hackers on the subject of version numbering. There are many thoughtful (and some less-thoughtful) opinions on the thread that you may wish...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest: 2010 Call for Papers (2nd call)
Yes, it is the second call. That means some of you haven't submitted after the first call. Of course, I haven't submitted mine either; so it is time for everyone to get on it. West is just around the...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Explain Plans PostgreSQL 9.0 - Part 2: JSON and...
In part 1 of this series, we demonstrated how to render explain plans in YAML, JSON, and XML using the new explain features in PostgreSQL 9.0. In this second part, we'll demonstrate how to build a user...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Playing with bit strings
The idea of the day ain't directly from me, I'm just helping with a very thin subpart of the problem. The problem, I can't say much about, let's just assume you want to reduce the storage of MD5 in...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Online aggregation paper from 1997 and PSU’s database...
A couple weeks ago, Mark Wong and I took a field trip over to the Database Reading Group at Portland State University. It’s a group of students and professors that meet weekly throughout the school...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News August 29th 2010
PostgreSQL 9.0 RC1 out soon. The more you test, the sooner 9.0.0 comes out! http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta/
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Using logger with pg_standby
Piping logs to syslog is pretty useful for automating log rotation and forwarding lots of different logs to a central log server. To that end, the command-line utility ‘logger’ is nice for piping...
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