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Selena Deckelmann: Day 0: PgConf.EU
Yesterday was spent settling into the Casa 400 and reconnecting with the European Postgres community! The hotel allowed us to check in very early and so I got to settle in, grab lunch and a nap before...
View ArticleDamien Clochard: PG Conf Europe : Don't miss the party tonight !
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 is now entering in its second day. If you're one of the lucky attendees, in addition to the tremendous schedule of Day2 you are also invited to the traditional social...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: Index-only scans and heap block reads
As you may know, the Index-only scans feature has been committed to the PostgreSQL repository and it's available to all the developers. I'm very curious about such performance feature, and always want...
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Selena Deckelmann: Day 2 at PgConf.EU: hallway track and the marketing of...
The hallway track is always my favorite part of the conference. I had to give a full-length and a lightning talk today, so much of my time was spent making sure I was really prepared and then giving...
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Selena Deckelmann: Day 3 at PgConf.EU: the future, replication, performance...
I was room host for Simon Riggs, Magnus Hagander and Greg Smith today before giving my final talk this afternoon. The morning started with Simon Riggs talking about his wishlist for the future of...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: Loading data into UNLOGGED tables, and considering ALTER TABLE
UNLOGGED table has been introduced in 9.1, and it would improve INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE performance in several situations. At this time, I'm curious how it would work well on data loading. To load large...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News October 23rd 2011
PGDay.SoCal is scheduled at this year's Southern California Linux Exposition (SCALE10X) held in the LAX Hilton Hotel in the city of Los Angeles, California, on Friday January 20th, 2012. Please send...
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Pavel Stehule: Change a unknown record's field in PL/pgSQL
HelloWeek ago was a request on stackoverflow about change of composite variable's field by dynamic SQL. I wrote a first very simply solution:CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION public.setfield(a anyelement,...
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Joe Abbate: A Multi-Layered Test Cake
Dobos layered cake* A recurrent theme in software engineering are the multiple layers (or tiers) into which systems are subdivided. In the ideal case, a given layer only interacts with the immediate...
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yhavinga@gmail.com: MGRID talk @ PostgreSQL conference Europe 2011
Last week was the PostgreSQL conference Europe in Amsterdam, where I presented a talk about the MGRID Healthcare Datatypes (pdf, 4MB). We have presented the datatypes before for audiences that are...
View ArticleGuillaume LELARGE: Follow-up on pgconf.eu 2011
Just got an email asking me where we did put the slides of the talks. As they are a bit difficult to find, here is the URL: http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQL_Conference_Europe_Talks_2011....
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Robert Haas: PostgreSQL Crash Debugging
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I spend some of my time working in and with EnterpriseDB's support department. And what that means is that every customer I talk to has a problem, typically a...
View ArticleRobert Treat: PGDay Denver 2011 Wrap-Up
Last Friday was the first PGDay Denver, a regional one day Postgres conference, put on by Kevin Kempter and the folks who run the Denver Postgres User Group. We had between 50 and 75 people, which is...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Back From Amsterdam
Another great conference took place last week, PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 was in Amsterdam and plenty of us PostgreSQL geeks were too. I attended to lot of talks and did learn some more about...
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Greg Smith: Sync rep scaling
I'm almost done with this year's crazy conference season schedule, just Brazil's PG.BR next week left. All of my recent presentations are now available at our talks page. You'll also find many of...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostgreSQL Array: The ANY and Contains trick
One of the main features I love about PostgreSQL is its array support. This is a feature you won't find in most relational databases, and even databases that support some variant of it, don't allow you...
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Jignesh Shah: How does PostgreSQL HA works in vFabric Data Director?
Databases go down due to various reasons. Some reasons are known and some unknown.Common reasons are hardware failure, software failure, database unresponsive, etc. What is considered as a failure is...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Postgres at Usenix LISA in Boston
We are going to be doing a booth at Usenix LISA conference in Boston from December 7-8. If you live in Boston and are a PostgreSQL enthusiast, or if you plan to attend LISA, I want your help!
View ArticleJoshua Drake: What's next for Postgresql conference?
West is wrapped up. It was smaller. We split the attendees between Postgres Open and Surge. It was a good conference. We received a lot of positive feedback and I was even able to be nice (stop...
View ArticleGreg Smith: Apple's Lossless Audio Codec and Software Patents
Today my mailbox was crowded with some Apple news. The source code to the Apple Lossless Audio Codec, encoders and decoders, was released to the world. A few open-source projects such as FFmpeg and...
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