Leo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostGIS 2.0.0 is out
Yap that's right. PostGIS 2.0.0 is finally out the door. It took us Two years and 2 months, a super long incubation for us, but we did it and just in time for Javier's Where 2.0 2.0 Talk.. Paul has...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Let’s talk dirty
Important disclaimer: the module that I’m writing about was written by my colleague Phil Sorber. We all have been in, or heard about, situation like this: $ UPDATE users SET password = '...'; WHERE id...
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Josh Berkus: Reminder: GSOC applications close tommorrow
Just a quick reminder that you have less than 40 hours to apply for Google Summer of Code. If you're a student, time to get moving!
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Josh Williams: Stateful IPv6 tracking in RHEL 5: Fail
Are you a RHEL 5 user? Or CentOS or Scientific Linux, for that matter? Have you started deploying IPv6 on RHEL 5? If you're using ip6tables as a firewall in this environment, you may want to double...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG April meeting in two weeks
PDXPUG: April meeting When: 7-9pm Thu April 19, 2012 Where: Iovation Who: Veronika Megler What: “Data Near Here”: Building A Search Engine for Data using PostgreSQL We’ve heard a lot about Big Data....
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David Wheeler: Sqitch - VCS-powered SQL Change Management
Back in January, I wrote three posts outlinining some ideas I had about a straight-forward, sane way of managing SQL change managment. The idea revolved around specifying scripts to deploy and revert...
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David Wheeler: Sqitch - VCS-powered SQL Change Management
Back in January, I wrote three posts outlinining some ideas I had about a straight-forward, sane way of managing SQL change managment. The idea revolved around specifying scripts to deploy and revert...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Only Stable Releases are Indexed
I’ve had a few reports over the last few months that folks uploaded new extensions to PGXN but they failed to show up in search results. For example, as of right now, if you search for “distinct”, you...
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Joe Abbate: Database User Interfaces – Pagination
Since it’s been a while from my last post on this subject, let me recap what we’ve covered: Defined a minimal command line interface as a means of exercising the basic Python-PostgreSQL interface....
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: Moving PostGIS to another schema with Extensions
One of the things people have complained about for quite some time is that postgis is installed in the public schema by default and it's difficult to move after the fact. With now over 900 functions...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: PostGIS 2.0.0, RPMs and so.
PostGIS team announced 2.0.0 this week. Kudos to entire team for the great work. It is definitely a milestone both for PostGIS and PostgreSQL. Continue reading "PostGIS 2.0.0, RPMs and so."
View ArticleBruce Momjian: The New Postgres Era
Having attended several conferences recently, I saw confirmation of my previous observation that Postgres is poised for a new wave of adoption. The last time I saw such an upturn in adoption was with...
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Andrew Dunstan: row_to_csv
You can get rows as CSV lines by using the COPY command. This works well, but there are times when it's not convenient. For example, one of my clients uses software where the driver doesn't support...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Facebook acquires Instagram (and a Postgres cluster) for...
Tweet Today’s big story is that Facebook just acquired Instagram for $1 billion. Instagram is a hugely popular image sharing app – until recently only for iPhone. Last week they released an Android...
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Robert Haas: Don't Take Me Too Seriously
My recent blog post showing linear read-scaling out to 64 cores has generated a lot of attention, which I frankly did not expect. To be sure, it's a cool result, but keep in mind that it's testing a...
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Gurjeet Singh: Generating self-signed SSL certificates
Here are a set of commands to create self-signed certificates.# Create a Certificate Signing Requestumask u=rw,go= && openssl req -new -text -nodes -subj...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres-XC 1.0beta1 released
Postgres-XC, write-scalable multi-master symetric cluster based on PostgreSQL, version XC 1.0beta1 has been released. This beta version is based on PostgreSQL 9.1beta2, and all the fixes of PostgreSQL...
View ArticleHitoshi Harada: PL/v8 Road Map
For the last couple of months, I'm back to the PL/v8 development. One reason is that I'm now more interested in building and running a mid-term software project than hacking PostgreSQL core. I found...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Waiting for 9.2 – DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY
On 6th of April, Simon Riggs committed patch: Add DROP INDEX CONCURRENTLY [IF EXISTS], uses ShareUpdateExclusiveLock The log message is pretty laconic, so let’s see what it actually means. Before I can...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Three Ways to Install Postgres
There are three ways to install Postgres, and they are all listed on the Download menu on the Postgres website. While the web authors did their best to explain the differences between the various...
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