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Robert Haas: SE-Linux For PostgreSQL: Part 1
I made the trip down to OmniTI headquarters just south of Baltimore, MD this Wednesday for BWPUG. This month's topic was the ongoing project to integrate SE-Linux with PostgreSQL. Besides myself,...
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Joe Conway: [Tip] PostgreSQL Tip of the Day - which configs require restart?
I've been asked on at least three separate occasions lately how to know if changing a particular postgresql.conf option requires a restart, or a reload, of PostgreSQL. Here is my quick and dirty...
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Selena Deckelmann: CouchCamp 2010: yay!
Max in a tree! Talking about GeoCouch I was at CouchCamp last week out at the Walker Creek Ranch – a bit disconnected (no cel service, and spotty internet), but fully immersed in the CouchDB...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Back to the fray
My wife Melanie and I had a great trip to San Francisco, Sydney, Adelaide and far north Queensland, over the last 25 days. Much of the time was spent visiting colleagues and family, which was great,...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News September 12th 2010
Jonathan S. Katz will be speaking on ORMs: The Good, The Bad, and the Necessary (with PostgreSQL Considerations) at NYPUG on September 13th at Yodle's offices. Details and RSVP below....
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Tatsuo Ishii: pgpool-II 3.0 officially released
After nearly one month testing, we finally sent out pgpool-II 3.0 to the door on September 10, 2010. On that day SRA OSS, Inc. celebrated its 5th Anniversary. We had several talks there including Masao...
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Robert Haas: So, Why Isn't PostgreSQL Using Git Yet?
Just over a month ago, I wrote a blog posting entitled Git is Coming to PostgreSQL, in which I stated that we planned to move to git sometime in the next several weeks. But a funny thing happened on...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: How to group messages into chats?
My jabber server had the feature, that it logs all messages that got sent through it. This is pretty cool, and useful. And now, i got asked to use it to create list of conversations. What exactly is...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Window Functions example remix
The drawback of hosting a static only website is, obviously, the lack of comments. What happens actually, though, is that I receive very few comments by direct mail. As I don't get another spam source...
View ArticleTheo Schlossnagle: Software Engineer CTA
A while ago I started a project to add DTrace probes into common open source applications we use at OmniTI. I added them into Apache/APR-utils (which were put back) and PostgreSQL (which were also put...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Is your PgWest 2010 presentation submitted?
One of the aspects of the Open Source community I love is the agile, on demand nature of getting things done. If a feature is missing, you can just add it and you can add it on demand, as you need it....
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: PgUS sponsors SFPUG 9.0 Pre-Release party!
JD wrote: The San Francisco PostgreSQL User Group is hosting a PostgreSQL 9.0 Pre-Release party on September 17th. RSVP and details are here. United States PostgreSQL is proud to be one of the...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Perl Testing - stopping the firehose
span{font-family:sans-serif;}span.o{font-family:sans-serif;color:blue;}I maintain a large number of Perl modules and scripts, and one thing they all have in common is a test suite, which is basically...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Damn hardware
Some time in the very early hours of Sunday morning, I woke to find my daughter knocking on the door to tell me that a server machine was making nasty popping noises and giving off nasty smells and...
View ArticlePostgreSQL User Group Announcements: PDXPUG: September meeting this week:...
When: 7pm Sep 16th Where: FreeGeek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue What: PostGIS Who: Edwin Knuth Location-based services are all the rage these days, and almost everyone has a latitude and longitude or two...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: What I do
It’s been a decade ago when I did my first steps with contributing to Free Software, about seven years when I joined Debian, and about 6 with Canonical and Ubuntu. Time for some reflection what I have...
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Robert Haas: SE-Linux For PostgreSQL: Part 2
In part 1 of this blog post, I talked about my recent visit to BWPUG to discuss SE-Linux and PostgreSQL, and reviewed the work that has been done so far, as well as a few upcoming patches. In this...
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David Christensen: PostgreSQL odd checkpoint failure
Nothing strikes fear into the heart of a DBA like error messages, particularly ones which indicate that there may be data corruption. One such situation happened recently to us, when we ran into a...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: quote_literal vs NULL
I had a client caught by this today, and I've been caught by it a few times myself. If you construct dynamic SQL for use in PLPGSQL then you will usually want to use quote_literal() to quote the value...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest 2010 Early Bird Registration Open!
We are still finalizing the three days of content but the first tutorials of the conference have been accepted and early bird registration is now open.Tutorials:Test Driven Database Development...
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