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Robert Haas: CommitFest In Progress
I've seen a lot of articles lately about the great new features (and removed limitations) in PostgreSQL 9.1. Unless you're a regular reader of pgsql-hackers, you could almost forget about the fact...
View ArticleGabrielle Roth: This week’s find: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW
How many times am I working with Postgres and say “I wish I could…” and I can? Lots. Here’s another one: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW. As long as you’re not removing columns, or changing the datatype or name...
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Magnus Hagander: Stockholm PUG finally off the ground
Last night, we finally got a PostgreSQL User Group in Stockholm started. We've discussed this for years, but never got around to making it actually happen. Well, with big thanks to Claes who took care...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Sweat the small stuff, it really matters
In most release notices, it's the big shiny sexy features that get all the glamor, but in reality on day to day use it's the small usability enhancements that make the most difference. I'm reminded...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Viewing schema changes over time with check_postgres
Image by Flickr user edenpicturesVersion 2.18.0 of check_postgres, a monitoring tool for PostgreSQL, has just been released. This new version has quite a large number of changes: see the announcement...
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Dave Page: StackBuilder Package Updates
If you've ever used one of the PostgreSQL installers for v8.2 or above, either the old Windows MSI installer or the newer "one click" installers that also support Linux and Mac, you'll probably have...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Functions and Types in PLV8
Itagaki Takahiro has recently made a commit to PLV8 that does a nice job of handling type info in parameter passing between the Postgres and V8 engines. Essentially he's found a fairly neat way to set...
View ArticleBlake Crosby: PGWest 2011 Slides
The slides from my PostGIS mini-tutorial talk that I gave at PGWest 2011 are now available here.
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Lessons learned Packaging PostGIS Extensions: Part 1
In prior articles we talked about the new PostgreSQL 9.1 extension model and upcoming PostGIS 2.0 extensions which we have experimental builds of so far. In this article and other's to follow, we shall...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Scaling Stored Procedures
In the news recently stored procedures where used as an excuse for moving away logic from the database layer to application layer, and to migrate away from a powerful technology to a simpler one, now...
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: Fundamental performance and scalability instrumentation
This post is a followup to some promises I made at Postgres Open. Instrumentation can be a lot of work to add to a server, and it can add overhead to the server too. The bits of instrumentation I’ll...
View ArticlePostgreSQL User Group Announcements: PDXPUG October Meeting in two weeks
When: 7-9pm Thu October 20, 2011 Where: Iovation **note location change!** Who: Brent Dombrowski What: Upgrading PostGIS from 8.something to 9.0 This month we'll be hearing from Brent Dombrowski. Brent...
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: When systems scale better than linearly
I’ve been seeing a few occasions where Neil J. Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law doesn’t seem to model all of the important factors in a system as it scales. Models are only models, and they’re not...
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David Christensen: PG West 2011 Re-cap
I just recently got back from PG West 2011, and have had some time to ruminate on the experience (do elephants chew a cud?</note-to-self>). I definitely enjoyed San Jose as the location; it's...
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Bernd Helmle: Schedule for PGConf.DE released
The session schedule for PGConf.DE, the German-speaking PostgreSQL Conference, was published. The conference will be hold November 11th in Oberhausen, Germany, in front of the OpenRheinRhur, a...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: pgbench on UNLOGGED table(s), Round 2
As one pointed out in a comment in the last post, I have tried additional pgbench runs for "synchronous_commit = off" and "fsync = off". The results are shown in the right pic. It shows that...
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Robert Haas: Index-Only Scans: We've Got 'Em
Tom Lane committed a patch for index-only scans by myself and Ibrar Ahmed, which also incorporated some previous work by Heikki Linnakangas, after hacking on it some more himself. Woohoo!There is, of...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.2 – Index only scans
On 8th of October, Tom Lane committed patch: Support index-only scans using the visibility map to avoid heap fetches. When a btree index contains all columns required by the query, and the visibility...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News October 9th 2011
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 will be held on October 18-21 in Amsterdam. Registration is still open. http://2011.pgconf.eu/registration/
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: The best laid plans ...
For the second time in a few weeks I have had to resort to some ugly manipulation of server settings to get a query to run faster. In both cases the problem has been that a merge join has been...
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