Bruce Momjian: Parallel Query Report from the PGCon Developer Meeting
As part of yesterday's PGCon Developer Meeting, I hosted a discussion about adding resource parallelism to Postgres, which I blogged about previously. Josh Berkus has kindly summarized the results of...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: pgbadger looks cool
The biggest thing that piqued my interest yesterday at pgCon was the lightning talk on pgbadger. I'm certainly going to take a look at this as a substitute for pgfouine, which I have sadly found...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Running PostgreSQL on AWS
My presentation from PGCon 2012, PostgreSQL on AWS with Reduced Tears, is now up.
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Jignesh Shah: PgCon 2012: OLTP Performance Benchmarks Overview
The slides from my presentation today.
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Productive Hallway Track
One of the best things about conferences is that you can often deal with some problems quite quickly. For example, some people were unhappy about having to supply a dummy dynamic library while doing a...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Report from PGCon
PGCon 2012 is now over. Surprisingly, all the talks that excited me were from the second/last day. My morning started with WAL Internals Of PostgreSQL (slides) by Amit Kapila. I rarely see this topic...
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Joe Abbate: PostgreSQL Extensions and Pyrseas
Prompted by Peter Eisentraut’s blog post, I’ve finished adding support for PG 9.1 EXTENSIONs to the Pyrseas dbtoyaml and yamltodb utilities. For now, this is only available on GitHub. In order to deal...
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Devrim GÜNDÜZ: Freshly baked, served directly from oven: Please welcome 9.2 RPMs
I was at PGCon this week. I will try to write a separate blog post about this -- but anyway, an advantage of being at a conference that is thousands of miles away from your home is you are not being...
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Joel Jacobson: Hasta la vista, SQL_ASCII
Converting the encoding of your production database from SQL_ASCII to UTF8 can be a tricky challenge if you cannot accept any down time. The method presented here scans through all rows with...
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Peter Eisentraut: Base backup compression options
I've been looking at my PostgreSQL base backups. They are run using the traditional tar -c -z -f basebackup.tar.gz $PGDATA/... way (many details omitted). I haven't gotten heavily into using...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: PostgreSQL operating system accounting — CPU info
Once cgroups are in place and ready for action you can not just enjoy the kernel side limitations which make sure that only a certain amount of hardware is used but you can also make use of the Linux...
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Leo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostgreSQL 9.2 pg_dump enhancements
One of the things I'm excited about in PostgreSQL 9.2 are the new pg_dump section - pre-data, data, and post-data options and the exclude-table-data option. Andrew Dunstan blogged about this briefly in...
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Chris Travers: LedgerSMB now in Debian!
As Robert James Clay announced today: The 1.3.15-2 package for LedgerSMB has been accepted into Debianunstable. I expect that version of the package to migrate to Debiantesting (wheezy) by the end of...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: The Evolution of pg_upgrade
Pg_upgrade (documentation, presentation) was created in 1998 to allow in-place major version upgrades of Postgres. It was written as a shell script, as were many of our command-line administration...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostgreSQL 9.2 native json type support
One new welcome feature in PostgreSQL 9.2 is the native json support and companion row_as_json and array_as_json functions. PostGIS also has a json function for outputting geographies and geometries in...
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Josh Berkus: Testing 9.2: Autovacuum Logging
Since PostgreSQL 9.2 is in beta now, I've been using some generously donated cloud server time on GoGrid to test various features in the new release. One of the ones which is working brilliantly is...
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Steve Singer: PGCon2012 – Making Maps
Slides from my 2012 PGCon presentation Making your Own Maps are now available The presentation covered Common reasons people render their own maps Where to get OpenStreetMap data and how to load it...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Automatic Upgrades?
With pg_upgrade gaining wide acceptance and the Firefox browser implementing a continuous upgrade model, it might be time to consider auto-upgrades for Postgres. Consider this possible future output: $...
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David Wheeler: Sqitch Update: The Plan
I gave my first presentation on Sqitch at PGCon last week. The slides are on Slideshare and the PGCon site. It came together at the last minute, naturally. I was not able to pay as close attention to...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Speeding Up by Condensing
During Robert Haas's talk (slides) last week at PGCon, I realized that three of our major performance features for Postgres 9.2 involved representing data in a more compact form: Allow queries to...
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