Selena Deckelmann: What features do developers get excited about in Postgres?
TweetI’m here at DjangoCon in Washington, DC and thinking about what it is that developers are currently excited about in Postgres. Postgres hackers are often very focused on solving our own problems,...
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Joe Abbate: Testing Python and PostgreSQL on Multiple Platforms
I’m working on making the Pyrseas functional tests portable enough so that they can be submitted to the repository. Until now, these tests —which exercise dbtoyaml and yamltodb directly— existed as...
View ArticleJim Smith: Is custom really better?
Custom. Proprietary. Exclusive. All words we associate with quality and better performance custom suits fit better, proprietary software meets our specific needs, exclusive access grants us a social...
View ArticleKeith Fiske: PostgreSQL Extension Developer Tips - Part 1
I've been working on several extensions for PostgreSQL over the last few months. I was going to do one big blog post of some developer tips, but figured I'd just do this as an ongoing series as I come...
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gabrielle roth: PDXPUG: September meeting coming up
When: 7-9pm Thu Sep 20, 2012 Where: Iovation Who: David Wheeler What: Sqitch SQL change management is hard. Most “migration”-style implementations require opaque naming conventions, prefer DSLs that...
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Chris Travers: O/R modelling interlude: PostgreSQL vs MySQL
Every time we see people look at PostgreSQL and MySQL on the internet it falls into a flame war fast. I think that a large part of the problem is that advocates of these databases look at the other...
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Josh Berkus: SFPUG Streaming: PostgreSQL 9.2
This Tuesday (7:15 PM PDT), we'll be broadcasting the SFPUG meeting live on JustinTV. I'll be presenting "PostgreSQL 9.2: Full Throttle Database", showing off all the features of the new version...
View ArticleMartin Pitt: PostgreSQL 9.2 final available for Debian and Ubuntu
PostgreSQL 9.2 has just been released, after a series of betas and a release candidate. See for yourself what’s new, and try it out! Packages are available in Debian experimental as well as my...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: PostgreSQL 9.2 - my contributions
PostgreSQL 9.2 has bee released, with a while lot of goodies. Here is a list of things in it that I worked on. Add array_to_json and row_to_json functions. This adds some essential support to the new...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: PostgreSQL 9.2.0 released -- also the RPMs!
PostgreSQL 9.2 was released a few hours before. This is mostly a performance release, and shows great improvement as compared to the previous releases. ...and for sure, I released RPMs for 9.2, too....
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Yann Larrivee: ConFoo 2013: Call for Papers is Now Open!
ConFoo is one of the most important web developer-oriented conferences. ConFoo 2013 will be held on February 25 through March 1 in Montreal, Canada. We just opened call for papers and we are looking...
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Josh Berkus: PostgreSQL 9.2 out the gate
And ... we're off! PostgreSQL 9.2.0 is finally out, and you can now deploy it for production applications. So lemme talk a little about one of my favorite features from the release, as well as...
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Peter Eisentraut: pgxnclient supports tarballs and HTTP
Need to install a PostgreSQL server add-on module? The devel branch of pgxnclient now supports this type of thing: pgxnclient install http://pgfoundry.org/frs/download.php/3274/plproxy-2.4.tar.gzThis...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: RHEL 7 will likely ship with PostgreSQL 9.2
Yesterday, Tom (Lane) committed 9.2.0 to Fedora rawhide, and even better, to Fedora 18. RHEL 7 is said to be based on Fedora 18 (also said here, too), so apparently we skipped 9.1 there, and the shiny...
View ArticleRyan Lowe: pg_stat_activity shows future queries!
This morning I was working on getting some statistics on average transaction open time on a relatively underutilized host when I noticed some oddities. Periodically, I would see that my average...
View ArticleJim Mlodgenski: Scaling PostGIS Location Data
Since first adding PostGIS support to Stado last year, I've heard from a number of people needing to scale their write workload in addition to reads. The architecture of Stado doesn't really lend...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Video of Postgres 9.2 Features
Last night, Josh Berkus did a great job of presenting the Postgres 9.2 features to SFPUG. The 75-minute video is now online. (The video is mis-titled as "July".) I also have a video of 9.2 features...
View ArticleMerlin Moncure: psql -- now with a splash of color!
I was tired of looking at psql's dull grey output and decided to see if I could work in some color. I was able to do this -- it's pretty hacky but seems to work well enough for me to publish here....
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Chris Travers: Object/Relational Interlude: Messaging in PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL as an object-relational development platform doesn't end with data modelling. The notification system is particularly powerful and worthy of mention. This system however has some...
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Pavel Golub: How to move data from one schema to another in Postgres?
I saw a question today : I have PostpreSQL 9.1. In my database there are 2 schemas: public and test. How can I quickly move all objects and data from public to test? Opps. I’m stuck with this issue for...
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