Emanuel CALVO FRANCO: New England Database Summit
The New England Database Summit is an all day conference-style event where participants from the research community and industry in the New England area can come together to present ideas and discuss...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: xlogdump 0.5.1 released
The latest xlogdump has been released. This version allows users to lookup object names from object ids for built-in database objects by reading the lookup table file instead of the system catalog....
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Dimitri Fontaine: pgbouncer munin plugin
It seems that if you search for a munin plugin for pgbouncer it's easy enough to reach an old page of mine with an old version of my plugin, and a broken link. Let's remedy that by publishing here the...
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Robert Treat: Checkpoints, Buffers, and Graphs
Last night at BWPUG, Greg Smith gave his talk on "Managing High Volume Writes with Postgres", which dives deep into the intersection of checkpoint behavior and shared buffers, and also into dealing...
View ArticleEmanuel CALVO FRANCO: PostgreSQL 9.1 Presentation Slides available
Our resident Postgres expert Emanuel spoke at the Libre Software World Conference last week about PostgreSQL 9.1, and as the Community Liasion for PalominoDB for a few more days, I am posting the...
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Andreas Scherbaum: German-Speaking PostgreSQL Conference 2011 - A résumé
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum The German-Speaking PostgreSQL Conference 2011 is over!It was a very good event and the response was much greater than expected. Thanks to all who have come to Oberhausen -...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News November 20th 2011
FOSDEM 2012 - PostgreSQL Devroom: Call for Speakers is open until December 20, 2011. https://www.postgresql.eu/events/callforpapers/fosdem2012/
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Andreas Scherbaum: FOSDEM 2012 - PostgreSQL Devroom: Call for Speakers
Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum The PostgreSQL project will have a Devroom at FOSDEM 2012, which takes place on February 4-5 in Brussels, Belgium. The Devroom will mainly cover topics for PostgreSQL users,...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Multi-tenancy under systemd
A while back I blogged about how to do Multi-Tenancy of servers right on RedHat flavored systems. But now the landscape is changing a bit. Instead of the traditional System V style init scripts, Fedora...
View ArticleGreg Smith: Global trends in deploying PostgreSQL
This year's conference lineup led me all over the world, a giant rectangle triangle going from the west coast of the US, north to Canada, east to the UK and Amsterdam, then ending south in Brazil....
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Joe Abbate: The Phantom of the Database – Part 2
In the previous episode: Alice, Bob and Carol were trying to simultaneously update the following row of the film table: id | title | release_year -------+----------------+--------------...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: How big is my database and my other stuff
In this day and age of clouds and what not, it is still important to keep tabs on your database growth to ensure it doesn't outgrow your disks or so that you can be prepared when it does. A common...
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Chris Travers: LedgerSMB (and PostgreSQL) at MYGOSSCON
Metatron Technology Consulting has rented a booth at the Malaysia Government Open Source Software Convention (MYGOSSCON), 2011. This booth will be used to advocate PostgreSQL and LedgerSMB both to...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Modular buildfarm
Back around the time of pgCon I fairly quickly whipped up a Andrew_Dunstan-_Build_Farm_Changes.pdf">Andrew_Dunstan-_Build_Farm_Changes.pdf">plugin or module mechanism for the buildfarm client....
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Peter Eisentraut: git whoami
My favorite feature in bzr (Bazaar) is the bzr whoami command, which prints what your current identity (name and email) is, as far as the repository is concerned. You can tell I haven't used bzr much...
View ArticleRobert Treat: Cloudy With A Chance Of Scale
Recently I met with a company looking for some long term advice on building out their database infrastructure. They had a pretty good mix of scaling vertically for overall architecture, while scaling...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Cutting off your nose to spite your face
I discovered something yesterday that had escaped my attention. RedHat's and Fedora's postgresql-devel packages don't include the pgport static library (and it's only built statically). Tom Lane tells...
View ArticleAdrian Klaver: Making things easier
Have not trolled the source enough to know who specifically to thank, so a general thank you to whoever is responsible for \e(f) in psql and the command DO. I have been working on a fairly complex...
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Euler Taveira de Oliveira: Understanding WAL nomenclature
There are some PostgreSQL functions that reports an information such as 68A/16E1DA8. But what does it mean? The documentation states that it is a transaction log location. Let me try to explain it in...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: PGXN Client 1.0 Released!
By Daniele Varrazzo Finally, here it is. Well tested, documented, and pampered. With the PGXN Client installing extensions from the PGXN Network is a breeze: $ pgxn install semver $ pgxn load semver $...
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