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Josh Berkus: Amazonstravaganza tommorrow, on UStream
Tommorrow we're going to have two back-to-back SFPUG presentations about running PostgreSQL on AWS: Scalr presenting their stuff, and "Amazon With Reduced Tears" by Christophe Pettus. The event is...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Mixing compilers
Regina has been reporting problems with running my Fixed Length Record Foreign Data Wrapper on Windows. I tried it yesterday on my MinGW 64 bit setup and it worked just fine. It turns out she's been...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Monitoring many Postgres files at once with tail_n_mail
This post discusses version 1.25.0 of tail_n_mail, which can be downloaded at http://bucardo.org/wiki/Tail_n_mail One of our clients recently had one of their Postgres servers crash. In technical...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Rules in Postgres-XC
One of the features that has been really improved the last couple of weeks is the stabilization of remote query planning for DML for Postgres-XC standard planner. And this has consequences on rules,...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: File FDW Family: Part 2 file_textarray_fdw Foreign...
Last time we demonstrated how to query delimited text files using the fdw_file that comes pacakged with PostgreSQL 9.1+, this time we'll continue our journey into Flat file querying Foreign Data...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Deploying file_text_array Foreign Data wrapper
Today, a moment planned 18 months ago arrived when I was able to deploy the file_text_array foreign data wrapper for the client for whom it was originally designed. It's taken this long for the client...
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Bruce Momjian: Postgres 9.2 Draft Release Note Published
I have completed the Postgres 9.2 release notes I started seven days ago. Writing the release notes is always a taxing experience. I have to basically dedicate an entire week to the process of...
View ArticleHitoshi Harada: PL/coffee Trial
We are getting to the final stage of the first stable release of PL/v8. This should be a good release with a lot of improvement such like Subtransaction support Better name space of built-in functions...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Upgradable JSON
If you're using my backport of the 9.2 JSON feature in your 9.1 Postgres, you have a problem if you want to use pg_upgrade when moving to release 9.2: the type has the same name and behaviour in 9.1 as...
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Chris Travers: Thoughts on VoltDB and performance vs flexibility
VoltDB is the latest project of Mike Stonebreaker (original founder of Postgres) aimed at very high performance OLTP. It is fairly clearly a niche product however, and not really usable in the ERP...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres-XC 1.0beta2 is released
Postgres-XC, write-scalable multi-master symmetric cluster based on PostgreSQL, version 1.0beta2 has been released. This beta version is based on PostgreSQL 9.1.3. All the patches in PostgreSQL 9.1...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: PostgreSQL resource consumption limitations
PostgreSQL offers a great deal of flexibility when it comes to resource allocation and efficient usage of hardware capacities. This allows fancy monitoring of what PostgreSQL does in production....
View ArticleMartin Pitt: Debian/Ubuntu Packages for PostgreSQL 9.2 Beta 1
The first Beta of the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.2 was released yesterday (see announcement). Your humble maintainer has now created packages for you to test. Please give them a whirl, and report any...
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David Wheeler: Use of DBI in Sqitch
Sqitch uses the native database client applications (psql, sqlite3, mysql, etc.). So for tracking metadata about the state of deployments, I have been trying to stick to using them. I’m first targeting...
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: Call for Papers - PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012
The call for papers for PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 in Prague, the Czech Republic has now been posted. As usual, we are looking for talks on all topics related to PostgreSQL. At this point, we...
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Peter Eisentraut: My (anti-)take on database schema version management
There were a number of posts recently about managing schema versions and schema deployment in PostgreSQL. I have analyzed these with great interest, but I have concluded that they are all more or less...
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Jeff Frost: Slony Upstart Script for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Since Ubuntu is moving towards using upstart instead of SysV init scripts, I thought I'd write a quick upstart script for starting slony compiled and installed in /usr/local/slony. Upstart 1.4+...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Template1 Me!
You might have heard of the template1 database before, or seen it in the output of pg_dumpall: REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE template1 FROM PUBLIC; … Continue Reading »
View ArticleGuillaume LELARGE: pgAdmin 1.16 beta 1 is out
At the same time PostgreSQL 9.2 beta 1 was released, so did pgAdmin 1.16 beta 1 (with an unfortunate copy/paste error on the URL to download beta 1). We don't have yet installers for Windows, and...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Adding enum labels isn't transactional
Back when we added a facility to add new labels to an enum, some technical considerations made us adopt a restriction that this must not take place within a transaction.block. David Wheeler has been...
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