Hubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: What index to create?
Some time ago I wrote a blogpost about why index might not be used. While this post seemed to be well received (top link from depesz.com on reddit), it doesn’t answer another question – what index to...
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Greg Sabino Mullane:
PostgreSQL allows for different transaction isolation levels to be specified. Because Bucardo needs a consistent snapshot of each database involved in replication to perform its work, the first thing...
View ArticleMark Wong: Patch Review Party Tonight! 9/28/2011
We're resurrecting the PRP (Patch Review Party). Where: Emma 6th & East B-side When: Wed Sep 28, 6-9pm (that's tonight!) Emma will be providing food & beverages, as usual. You must RSVP for...
View ArticleEmanuel CALVO FRANCO: Postgresql 9.1 - Part 1: General Features
General scope Postgresql 9.1 runs over the theme “features, innovation and extensibility” and it really does. This version was born to overcome Postgresql 9.0 ‘s limitations and known bugs in...
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Tomas Vondra: SSD benchmark results - TPC-H
If you compare the SSD with a traditional drive in a TPC-H benchmark, you'll notice that the performance increases even less than in case of the read-write pgbench workload. For example when comparing...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Tip of the week
I'm always finding out about things I didn't know about Postgres. Judging by the email on the hackers mailing list, lots of people didn't know about this one. Try this in your .psqlrc, to save yourself...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: KNN Gist for PostGIS in Place
Lots of people have been asking the never ending question of when PostGIS is going to get on the band wagon and support KNN GIST like other GIST based types trigrams, full text search etc. Well it's...
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Jignesh Shah: #PGWest 2011 - Using vFabric Postgres - A DB User's Perspective
Here are my slides from my #PGWest 2011 Presentation " Using vFabric Postgres - A DB User's Perspective" for vPostgres Databases as deployed by vFabric Data Director.
View ArticlePostgreSQL User Group Announcements: Patch Review Party V recap
Last night's PRP was fun *and* productive! Thanks to Emma for hosting our group. Some of us :koffkoff: were out of practice (it's been over a year and a half since the last PRP, holy cow) and I wasn't...
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Robert Haas: Scalability, in Graphical Form, Analyzed
I'm at Surge, this week, where I just listed to Baron Schwartz give a talk about scalability and performance. As usual, Baron was careful to distinguish between performance (which is how fast it is)...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: “Sharding & IDs at Instagram”
I’d like to recommend an interesting post, “Sharding & IDs at Instagram”, about sharding using Postgres.
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Ingres Follow-Up
There were quite a few responses to my earlier post about Ingres, and I want to apologize. Not about my analysis of their strategy -- which I stand by -- but for linking to Curt Monash's blog. I wasn't...
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Robert Hodges: Open Source Hardware
Back in 2010 I stopped buying test servers from Dell and began building them from components using Intel i7 processors, X58-based mother boards, and modular power supplies from Ultra. It was a good...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News October 2nd 2011
Early bird registration (cheap! cheap!) is available for PGDay.IT http://blog.2ndquadrant.com/en/2011/09/pgday-it-2011-early-bird-registrations-open.html
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: How the TOC Ticks
From time to time people talk about the Table of Contents (or TOC) of a non text PostgreSQL format dump file. The closest thing most people ever come to seeing what's actually in it is the output from...
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Joe Abbate: Quo vadis, Pyrseas?
When I found Andromeda, over a year ago, I was searching for a tool that would help me maintain PostgreSQL tables supporting web sites, somewhat like a Django admin app, but without Django itself since...
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Dave Page: PostgreSQL Conference Europe: Are you ready?
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 starts 2 weeks from today in the beautiful city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. This is the fourth annual conference hosted by PostgreSQL Europe, following on from...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: “PostgreSQL vs. Ingres” — or “Ingres RIP”
Given Josh’s postings on Ingres earlier I would like to add some comments: Some time ago one of our folks here at Cybertec played around with Ingres a little. The idea was basically to see how things...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: pgbench on UNLOGGED table(s)
To satisfy my curiosity, I just tried a quick run for pgbench with UNLOGGED tables. Under the pgbench transaction model, a kind of tpc-b, changing the history table attribute to "UNLOGGED" did not...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: See you in Amsterdam
The next PostgreSQL conference is approaching very fast now, I hope you have your ticket already: it's a very promissing event! If you want some help in deciding whether to register or not, just have...
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