Bruce Momjian: The Marathon Begins
With PG Open starting next week, I begin an eight-week period that has me traveling for half that time, visiting Chicago, New York City, Baltimore, Amsterdam, and Sao Paulo (schedule). My sons are...
View ArticleGabrielle Roth: My picks for PgOpen
Postgres Open is coming up this week! Here are the talks I want to check out: Thursday: I’m heading to Fast Read Scaling with repmgr first. While I’m not personally using replication at the moment, it...
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Steve Singer: Denver Day 1, What’s new in PostgreSQL 9.1
Saturday was my first full day in Denver for the OpenStreetMap State Of The Map conference. A few years ago I presented a talk at PGCon on OpenStreetMap. I have now returned the favour and presented a...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: The Innovative Elephant
In case you somehow missed it, PostgreSQL 9.1 is out. There's a lot of good new features in this release, but I want to talk about the two things which have me really excited about 9.1. The two are...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: PostgreSQL 9.1 final packages available for Debian/Ubuntu
Hot on the heels of the PostgreSQL 9.1.0 release I am happy to announce that the final version is now packaged for Debian unstable, the current Ubuntu development version “Oneiric”, and also in my...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Off to the windy city
I'm just leaving for Chicago, a town I love, for the Postgres Open conference, a new event I'm excited about. My talk will be quite different from talks I've given at conferences in the past. Andrei...
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Jignesh Shah: Next Stop: Postgres Open 2011 - Chicago
Soon I will be in Chicago for Postgres Open 2011. Here I will be presenting once again "Running PostgreSQL on Virtualized Environments" on Thurday - 11:30am in the Cotillion Ballroom (according to...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Postgres Open
I’m off to Chicago today for Postgres Open, a new PostgreSQL conference. I’m pleased that I’ll be presenting “Get Your Preferred Feature Developed!” There are lots of developers out there who, like me,...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest 2011: The Schedule is out!
This year we have a diverse range of topics on PostgreSQL. Of course we have all the standard topics on backups, performance, mvcc but we also have some very interesting presentations coming from...
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Tomas Vondra: Benchmark results / HDD + TPC-H
Last week I've posted a bief analysis of the read-only and read-write OLTP parts of the benchmark, now it's time to look into the part dealing with DWH/DSS workload, based originally on the TPC-H...
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Josh Williams: Bucardo, 9.1, and you!
A little bit of bad news for Bucardo fans, Greg Sabino Mullane won't be making Postgres Open due to scheduling conflicts. But not to worry, I'll be giving the "Postgres masters, other slaves" talk in...
View ArticleGreg Smith: Limitations removed in PostgreSQL 9.1
The release of PostgreSQL 9.1 lining up with this week's Postgres Open conference has resulted in my getting asked the same question by several people now: "how long should I wait before deploying...
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Denish Patel: The Scalability & Performance Conference : Surge 2011
The Scalability and Performance covers most of the web scale issues, innovations and evolutions in technology. As per my knowledge, Surge is the only conference that gives the coverage to...
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Jignesh Shah: Running PostgreSQL on Virtual Environments - #pgopen 2011
Slides from my presentation today at Postgres Open 2011 in Chicago.
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Peter Eisentraut: ccache and clang, part 2
There's more funny business when using ccache in combination with clang. Last time I suggested that you use the invocation./configure CC='ccache clang -Qunused-arguments -fcolor-diagnostics'to get rid...
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Jaime Casanova: PGDay Ecuador 2011
How can we measure the use of PostgreSQL in some country or region? it seems that the level of support for an event is a good way!In June 2008 i suggested the idea of making a PGDay here with little or...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Unlocking the Postgres Lock Manager Slides Now Online
Having just presented at PG Open, my Unlocking the Postgres Lock Manager slides are now online.
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Steve Singer: Big Tent Conferences
This past week I attended FOSS4G in Denver, a conference run by the open-source geospatial foundation (OSGEO) that also happened to be the largest PostgreSQL conference in North America. FOSS4G is a...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News September 18th 2011
PostgreSQL 9.1.0 released! More cutting-edge features, more performance...what's not to like? http://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/release-9-1.html
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Tomas Vondra: Benchmark results with SSD - read-only pgbench
In the last few posts I've discussed benchmark results with a traditional SATA drive, now it's time to discuss results of the same tests with a SSD drive (Intel 320). This post is about results of the...
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