David Fetter: GRAPHical SQL (or how to make a forest)
Graphs? In Databases? Yes, you can! Continue reading "GRAPHical SQL (or how to make a forest)"
View ArticleTom Copeland: Rails 3, bundler, and the pg gem
I was moving a Rails 2 app up to Rails 3 and, because I have PostgreSQL installed in a non-standard location on my server, I ran into problems when bundler was trying to install the pg gem. After...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Architecture, New Extension JSON Format
I’m making good progress on PGXN Manager. Hopefully I can start alpha testing it next week. As I mentioned previously, I had estimated 40 hours of work to create it, but was hoping to get it done in...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: Get Your PostgreSQL 9 Gear Here!
PostgreSQL 9 will be out soon, and don't you want to be dressed for the occasion? Certainly those who have shown up at events are sporting nifty PostgreSQL shirts. But not everyone is so privileged, so...
View ArticleDan Langille: Sending out a URL for password reset
Quite some time ago, FreshPorts and The FreeBSD Diary both moved from clear text passwords to password hashes. As such, you are no longer able to recover your password. You had to email me. This is...
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Robert Haas: Git Conversion, Take Two
The PostgreSQL project will be making its second attempt to migrate from CVS to git this coming Monday. In a previous blog post, I talked about some of the difficulties we've had getting a clean...
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Pavel Golub: Beta of PgMDD v1.3.0 is available
MicroOLAP Database Designer for PostgreSQL aka PgMDD v1.3.0-Beta is already available for downloading. As you can see this is new minor release. It is timed to coincide with the PostgreSQL 9.0 release....
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News September 19th 2010
Barring catastrophe, PostgreSQL 9.0.0, now with, among many other new features, built-in replication, will be out Monday, September 20, 2010. Rejoice! http://www.postgresql.org/
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Francisco Figueiredo Jr: Trip to Canada
Hi all!Today I'm going to Canada. I took sometime out of my job and decided to visit Rocky Mountains. I'll also take a cruise to Alaska. They say it is an awesome experience!This means I'll won't be...
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Baron Schwartz: A review of Relational Database Design and the Optimizers by...
Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers Relational Database Index Design and the Optimizers. By Tapio Lahdenmaki and Mike Leach, Wiley 2005. (Here’s a link to the publisher’s site). I...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: On cloud 9.0
Version 9.0 is finally out!. To celebrate, we're throwing a party in San Francisco, and you should RSVP soon because it's almost sold out. After that, I get my life back.
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: PostgreSQL 9.0.0 released.
As written in news item, PostgreSQL 9.0.0 was released. Please start downloading and using!
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: A busy week for PostgreSQL - hello 9.0!
In case you missed it (I'm certainly not the first on Planet PostgreSQL to blog about this, but there are supposedly other aggregators), PostgreSQL 9.0 has been released. Comes with spiffy things like...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: PostgreSQL 9.0 final released
After 20 days of final polishing and maturing since the release candidate, the PostgreSQL team released the final 9.0 version today. Hot off the press, I uploaded postgresql-9.0 final into Debian...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostGIS 1.5.2 coming soon
Over the past two weeks, the PostGIS development team has been working hard to get out PostGIS 1.5.2 in time for the PostgreSQL 9.0 release. This release contains fixes allowing PostGIS to compile...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: PostgreSQL 9.0 - to infinity and beyond!
PostgreSQL 9.0 is out today, and it's a great release. The Hot Standby and Streaming Replication features are eagerly looked forward to by a great many users, and I've already had discussions with...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The Best Open Source DB...
With the big release of Postgres 9.0, I want to recommend a new Postgres article by Alan Shimel. First, the title, "Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The Best Open Source DB Of Them All?" combines...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: PostgreSQL 9.0 media coverage roundup
As you probably noticed, we released PostgreSQL 9.0 today! There were quite a few stories, and here’s what I’ve got so far: Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The BestOpen Source DB Of Them All?...
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Pavel Golub: libpq stands for…
I always was interested why PostgreSQL client library named “libpq”. Of course I guessed that “lib” means “library”, but there are two more characters left. I supposed that “p” is some how connected...
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Magnus Hagander: PostgreSQL - now on git!
So it finally happened. The official PostgreSQL master source tree is now managed in git, instead of cvs. This means, amongst other things, that the worlds most advanced open source database now has a...
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