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Selena Deckelmann: PostgreSQL 9.0: contributions!
New releases are opportunities for reflection! As PostgreSQL grows, I would like to know how many people are contributing at any time. This is difficult to measure, given how many people contribute in...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Listen/Notify improvements in PostgreSQL 9.0
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View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Suicide is painless
... and so is migrating a buildfarm client to use the new git repo. Basically, there are two steps: remove the pgsql directories under your build root make any adjustments necessary in your config file...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Postgres 9.0 Feedback on Slashdot
I usually read the Slashdot comments about Postgres releases because it gives me a good barometer of how Postgres is perceived. I have been doing this for 10+ years, and started at the time when MySQL...
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Pavel Golub: PostgreSQL v9.0.0 client libraries update
We (in MicroOLAP Technologies) just finished client libraries update for 9.0.0 version. Quick facts: Two packages were updated: Deployment libraries shipped with PostgreSQL installation Deployment...
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Thom Brown: PostgreSQL docs reloaded
If you regularly reference the online PostgreSQL docs, you may have noticed that they have just had a face-lift in time for the big 9.0 release. If not, take a look. This went through quite a few...
View ArticleUS PostgreSQL Association: PgUS looking for help to migrate from Drupal 5 to...
JD Wrote: The PgUS Board is currently tapped on time resources and is looking for someone to help us migrate our Drupal 5 instance to Drupal 6 on our new virtual machine. We are of course running Linux...
View ArticleJan Brinkmann: A comprehensive database know-how collection
Sqlexamples.org is a community project that is focused on collecting real world solutions for specific problems. Additionally, we want to collect database know-how that is related to SQL or NoSQL...
View ArticleRobert Gravsjö: pg_upgrade and shared libraries
I ran pg_upgrade on a dev cluster of mine and it halted on some shared libraries I had forgot to install for the new cluster. Most of them were plain contrib that I'll continue to use so no problem...
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Joshua Tolley: Anonymous code blocks
With the release of PostgreSQL 9.0 comes the ability to execute "anonymous code blocks" in various of the PostgreSQL procedural languages. The idea stemmed from work back in autumn of 2009 that tried...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Interviewed by Linux.com
So, I broke down at purchased my Linux Foundation membership. Shortly thereafter I was requested to be interviewed. Here it is.
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Denish Patel: Outlining Surge Conference Sessions
OmniTi's Surge conference is around the corner (Sept 30th) and there are plenty of industry leading speakers and most advance technology sessions to choose from list. Most probably I will be attending...
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Robert Haas: Enjoying Git
OK, I admit it. This is awesome. I'm still getting used to committing to PostgreSQL with git rather than CVS, but it's sort of like the feeling of being let out of the dungeon. Wow, sunlight, what...
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Abdul Yadi: PgPool II 3.0: bug fixes for md5 authentication
I have problem with PgPool II 3.0. I have downloaded the source code from http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgpool. Extract and compile it successfully. Configure it just to have connection pooling...
View ArticleJeff Davis: Exclusion Constraints are generalized SQL UNIQUE
Say you are writing an online reservation system. The first requirement you’ll encounter is that no two reservations may overlap (i.e. no schedule conflicts). But how do you prevent that? It’s worth...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News September 26th 2010
New Survey: When will you go into production on 9.0? http://www.postgresql.org/community
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Andreas Scherbaum: FrOSCamp 2010 in Zurich
Andreas 'ads' ScherbaumThe vintage Swiss Federal Institute in Zurich had invited to FrOSCamp and many open source projects had followed the call. The Fedora FUDCon conference and another conference...
View ArticleDimitri Fontaine: Regexp performances and Finite Automata
The major reason why I dislike perl so much, and ruby too, and the thing I'd want different in the Emacs Lisp API so far is how they set developers mind into using regexp. You know the quote, don't...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Prospective buildfarm client improvements
Rémi Zara has sent a couple of interesting ideas to the buildfarm members mailing list. First, he proposes that the buildfarm client keeps a local git clone which it will point each branch repo at. We...
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Andrew Dunstan: Tracking who is using git in the buildfarm
I got tired of running database queries to track git usage in the buildfarm, so I have temporarily started tracking it on the dashboard page (so everyone else can easily see too). It's represented by...
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