Heikki Linnakangas: Joining VMWare
Today is my last day at EnterpriseDB. I’ve had a good time working there for the past six years, and will miss many of my colleagues. Tomorrow, I’m starting at VMWare. I will continue to be an active...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Lots O' Conferences
The Postgres conference offerings in the coming months are looking bright: Argentina Chicago Cuba Ecuador Italy Prague
View ArticleJaime Casanova: Managing useful clusters with repmgr
To create a standby in PostgreSQL is relatively easy, and because of the hot standby feature, that alone is certainly very useful. But creating a useful cluster that gives us real HA… that’s another...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres: pgbadger sneaking in log files for you
pgbadger is a recent Postgres module presented during the lightning talks of PGCon 2012 by its original author Gilles Darold. It is thought as an alternative to PgFouine, able to replace it thanks to...
View ArticleRyan Lowe: Approximating Postgres Replication Delay
Coming from the MySQL world, I’m used to being able to easily determine the replication delay (in seconds) via the SHOW SLAVE STATUS command: mysql> show slave status\G ***************************...
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Chris Travers: O/R Modelling 3.2: Set/Subset Modelling with Inheritance
Despite the fact that set/subset modelling is usually not a win for inheritance, sometimes in the cases of more complex logic, it can be. David Fetter has come up with an example where he tries to...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: Getting used to systemd: Installing and running PostgreSQL on...
Fedora has been using systemd, instead of SysV init scripts over the last 3 releases or so. Fedora 16 was the first release that really adopted their init scripts to systemd. There is still a long way...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Odd failures on Wiindows 7
Every so often my WIndows 7 Mingw buildfarm animal pitta has a strange failure at the configure stage. It's pretty much the same failure every time, and it doesn't seem to make any sense. It looks like...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Thoughts on Pretty Printing SQL
Recently there was some discussion on the -hackers mailing list about pretty printing SQL. Pavel Stehule submitted a short patch that leveraged the code that pretty prints view definitions, which I...
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Chris Travers: O/R Modelling in PostgreSQL part 4: Composite Columns and...
So far, we have looked at tables as classes and various ways of looking at inheritance within that structure. However, tables can be nested in PostgreSQL and this has a number of uses, particularly in...
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: PGConf.EU 2012 - schedule is up! Early bird ends in less...
We've finally finished the schedule for PGConf.EU 2012 in Prague in October, and put it up at http://2012.pgconf.eu/schedule/. Of course, a schedule is never truly finished - we will update it if...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: plperl multiplicity postgres interpreters
I came across this error recently for a client using Postgres 8.4: ERROR: cannot allocate multiple Perl interpreters on this platform Most times when you see this error it indicates that someone was...
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Mark Johnson: Enforcing Transaction Compartments with Foreign Keys and...
In support of End Point's evolving offering for multi-master database replication, from the precursor to Bucardo through several versions of Bucardo itself, our code solutions depended on the ability...
View ArticleChristophe Pettus: “PostgreSQL When It’s Not Your Job” at DjangoCon US
I presented “PostgreSQL When It’s Not Your Job” at DjangoCon US 2012, and you can get the slides here.
View ArticleBruce Momjian: The Backend Flowchart Is Back
In 1997, as part of learning the Postgres backend source code, I created an image of the backend source code flow and added hot-links to the image so users could click on a section and get detailed...
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Release of Postgres-XC 1.0.1
Postgres-XC, read/write-scalable multi-master symmetric cluster based on PostgreSQL, version 1.0.1 has been released today. This minor release is based on the latest PostgreSQL 9.1.5+alpha, meaning...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: While we’re here, let’s fix computer science education:...
TweetMy keynote today is done, the resources list is here and the slides are below. A ton of people came up to me after the talk and we started talking about all the ways that we might be able to solve...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: pg_upgrade fun
I have spent a lot of the last few days getting pg_upgrade testing working on the buildfarm. First I created a new buildfarm module to run the tests, and got it working on Linux. The the fun started,...
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Chris Travers: O/R Modelling part 5: Nested Data Structures, Do's and Don'ts
One of the promises of object-relational modelling is the ability to address information modelling on complex and nested data structures.Nested data structures bring considerable richness to the...
View ArticleRyan Lowe: Postgres unaware of it’s own connection limits?
Normally I’d just file a bug with something like this, but there’s no PostgreSQL bug tracker. So I’m left with a blog post … I was doing some testing with PostgreSQL memory usage and needed to know...
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