Alexey Klyukin: Fedora 17 not so easy PostgreSQL configuration
I don't usually post rants here, but this one might be actually helpful to others, so let's make an exception. It will be related to installing PostgreSQL from distro-specific packages. I usually...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: 99.9% Useful
How available do you want your services? A lot? Downtime is never desirable, so you want zero downtime, right? OK, that's impossible, so what is reasonable, and how much are you willing to pay for it?...
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David Christensen: Postgres Open 2012
I'm excited to be speaking at the 2012 Postgres Open Conference; Chicago, September 17-19. (Conference details at http://www.postgresopen.org/.)My talk will be "Choosing a Logical Replication System:...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Code evolution between Postgres 9.1 and 9.2
For the last couple of days I have been working on merging the code of Postgres-XC from 9.1 to 9.2. The release 1.0 of XC has been based on 9.1, but it is time to move forward and steal the latest...
View ArticleEmanuel Calvo: Exploring Configuration Management with Ansible
What is Ansible?Ansible is a configuration management and deployment system, like Puppet, Capistrano, Fabric, and Chef. Its aim is to be radically simple and let you use your existing scripts to help...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: Amazon’s New I/O Offerings
Amazon has introduced a couple of new I/O-related offerings in AWS, both aimed at addressing the notoriously poor I/O performance of EBS. The first is the EC2 High I/O Quadruple Extra Large Instance....
View ArticleBruce Momjian: 250 TPS
Have you ever run benchmarks that topped out at 250 Transactions per Second (TPS)? What about 120 or 90? If so, you might have been stumped about why you consistently hit these numbers and could never...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Autumn 2012 Conferences
The PostgreSQL community host a number of conferences all over the year, and the next ones I'm lucky enough to get to are approaching fast now. First, next month in September, we have Postgres Open in...
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Peter Geoghegan: Sorting improvements in PostgreSQL 9.2: the case for...
There has been much discussion of performance improvements in the upcoming 9.2 release of PostgreSQL. Recently, I noticed that Regina Obe and Leo Hsu's new book, "PostgreSQL: Up and running"...
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Chris Travers: Patterns and Anti-Patterns in Code Comments
Code commenting is something which takes a lot of introspection and practice to get right. As a heads-up when I am looking at hiring someone, I will be asking about commenting style and if you can't...
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David Wheeler: Sqitch v0.80: Now With More You
Last night, I uploaded Sqitch v0.80, the latest dev release of the simple database change management system I’ve been working on. I’m kind of stunned by the sheer number of changes in this release,...
View ArticleAlvaro Herrera: ... and that was my last day
This has been cooking for a while now, and now it's time to open it up: July 31st, 2012 was my last day with Command Prompt, Inc. I joined Command Prompt in October 2005. Back then I wasn't a very...
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Jeff Frost: Finding non-UTF8 data in a dump
Recently I was tasked with identifying all rows in a PostgreSQL database that contained non UTF8 data for migrating from SQL_ASCII encoding to UTF8. Because of the database's size, just using iconv...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: August meeting in two weeks
When: 7-9pm Thu August 16, 2012 Where: Iovation Who: David Kerr What: Vertically Scaling Postgres Horizontal Scaling is all the rage today with commodity and virtual servers coupled with Puppet, Slony,...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: “PostgreSQL: Up and Running” by Regina Obe and...
Around a week ago, I got mail saying that authors wanted me to have their book. For free. That’s relatively important because getting things for free means you should pay for it in other way (that’s my...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Turn off the drive write cache! Turn on the cache! Huh?
During a recent conference, it was pointed out to me that there are contradictory recommendations about the use of caching on storage devices. For magnetic disk drives, it is pretty clear — if the...
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Tatsuo Ishii: pgpool-II 3.2.0 is out!
After 11 month of development, finally pgpool-II 3.2.0 is out! Also a GUI management tool for pgpool-II 3.2.0(and before), pgpool-Admin 3.2.0 is released.See http://www.pgpool.net/pgpool-web/NEWS.txt...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Re-thinking “Mistakes were made”: free and open source...
TweetI’m working on my keynote for FrOSCon right now. They asked for me to revisit the “Mistakes were Made” talk. My introduction will probably be a lot the same. A core idea is a theory that the ratio...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: LATERAL subqueries - coming to a PostgreSQL release near you ...
Tom Lane has just posted a message that begins thus to the hackers list:I've been idly amusing myself by trying to hack up support for SQL-standard LATERAL subqueries. I've got something that turns...
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Chris Travers: Still pushing for 1.4 beta 1 by end of month
We are still pushing for LedgerSMB 1.4, beta 1 by the end of the month. We have a lot of work to do to get there but are closing the gap fast. I will put out a longer post at that time with a list of...
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