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Chris Travers: At the edges: Relational, Hierarchical, and Key-Value models...
Introduction It is no secret that I think of NoSQL as a kind of cool set of technologies applicable to a fairly narrow niche market. My view is that relational databases are still (and will be for the...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Report on PgCon Japan 2012
A PostgreSQL conference has happened on the 24th of February in Tokyo, Shinagawa, event organized by JPUG (Japanese PostgreSQL user’s group). You can go to this page where all the materials of...
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Robert Haas: The Git Workflow
When the PostgreSQL project decided to migrate to git, we decided not to allow merge commits. A number of people made comments, in a number of different fora, to the effect that we weren't following...
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Abdul Yadi: Consume SOAP Web Service from PostgreSQL User Defined Function in C
I have took a look directory of public SOAP web services at http://www.service-repository.com. Then an idea came across my mind to utilize gSOAP toolkit to develop some C code for a User Defined...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Heroku, a really easy way to get a database in a hurry.
If you've ever needed a database in a real hurry, Heroku's PostgreSQL offering which runs on top of Amazon, might be just what you need. Once you have registered with your credit card, getting a...
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Mark Wong: IBM loans equipment to PostgreSQL
IBM has been kind enough to loan us a pair of Power 730 Express servers. The folks at OSUOSL are hosting them for us and recently got them set up. Robert Haas and Simon Riggs are giving them a spin now.
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Joe Abbate: More Database Tools?
It’s been over year since I started blogging on these pages about Pyrseas and version control. In a month it will also be the first anniversary of the initial commit to GitHub. Much code and many words...
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Robert Haas: The Perils of Collation-Aware Comparisons
If you use psql's \l command to list all the databases in your PostgreSQL cluster, you'll notice a column in the output labelled "Collate"; on my system, that column has the value "en_US.UTF-8". This...
View ArticleSatoshi Nagayasu: Japan PostgreSQL Users Group received Achievement Award...
Today, Japan PostgreSQL Users Group has been awarded Achievement Award 2011 from the Database Society of Japan (DBSJ), the largest (umbrella) database research community in Japan, because of its...
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Simon Riggs: Replication Test Servers
As various people have already noted, IBM has set up some servers that will allow us to test software for robustness and performance and have kindly donated those to us for project use. Thanks very...
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Peter Eisentraut: PostgreSQL make install times
I have decided that make install is too slow for me. Compare: A run of make install takes about 10 seconds (details below), but a run of make all with the tree mostly up to date and using ccache for...
View ArticleEmanuel CALVO FRANCO: Considerations about text searchs in big fields and...
Imagine the following scenario: you have a table with a small set of records with columns containing tsvector and text data type. But, text fields has almost 20 megabytes of text or more.So, what...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Text files from a remote source
As one of my customers who uses my old RAGGED CSV patches is getting close to moving to Postgres 9.1, it's time for me to dust off the file_text_array Foreign Data Wrapper I wrote a year or so ago and...
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Joe Abbate: Pyrseas/PostgreSQL Feature Matrix
In my last post, I wrote—referring to the state of Pyrseas after version 0.5 is released: The only gaps left are TABLESPACE, GROUP/ROLE and the EXTENSIONs added in PG 9.1. I’m afraid I should’ve double...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Extension White Listing
PostgreSQL 9.1 includes proper extension support, as you might well know if you ever read this very blog here. Some hosting facilities are playing with PostgreSQL at big scale (hello Heroku!) and still...
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Andreas Kretschmer: Linux New Media Awards 2012
Our PostgreSQL got the Award in the category "Best Open Source Database System".Here a link, in german: Linux New Media Awards 2012Thanks to all users of PostgreSQL! (and thanks to internet24)Greetings...
View ArticleAlexey Klyukin: Pearls of Oracle to PostgreSQL conversion
We have been working on a large Oracle 8i conversion to PostgreSQL. Our customers were not concerned with the data conversion: there are tools like ora2pg and oracle foreign data wrapper to accomplish...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Postgres Open 2012, SQL Server Guys discover Postgres, Tom...
TweetHappy Friday! Postgres Open‘s website is back up! Next week, we’ll be announcing sponsorship opportunities for 2012 and opening our Call for Speakers shortly after. Some IT guys discovered...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Postgres Getting Increased Attention
In the past week, three people told me that they started seeing increased interest in Postgres 2-3 months ago. I have seen increased interest in Postgres at conferences over the years, but this was...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: March meeting next week
When: 7-9pm Thu Mar 15, 2012 Where: Iovation Who: Brent Dombrowski What: NoSQL for People Living Under a Rock This will be a high level overview of NoSQL things both hip and hiding. Warning: There will...
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