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Tatsuo Ishii: pgpool-II + now()
While I attended PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 I noticed some one said "pgpool cannot handle now()". Of course this is not a correct statement. Pgpool-II can handle now() since 2009 (version 2.3)...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Another awesome conf
Last week was PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 in Prague, and it's been awesome. Many thanks to the organisers who did manage to host a very smooth conference with 290 attendees, including speakers....
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Save the Ada Initiative
TweetIf you believe that women are a crucial part of the future of free and open source software, you should give to the Ada Initiative. If you think we should have more women contributing, talking...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: The importance of avoiding single points of failure
In the aftermath of this huge storm in the USA, a number of web sites I use on a daily basis are either offline or threatening to go offline or operating on reduced functionality. If your business...
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Szymon Guz: PostgreSQL auto_explain Module
PostgreSQL has many nice additional modules, usually hidden and not enabled by default. One of them is auto_explain, which can be very helpful for bad query plans reviews. Autoexplain allows for...
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Josh Berkus: pgConf.EU 2012 report
I just got back from my first European PostgreSQL conference since 2009. If you missed it, you should be sorry you did. Me, I mostly went because it was in Prague this year ... my sweetie really...
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Gabriele Bartolini: My “top 5″ for PGConf.eu in Prague
I have just returned from the breath-taking Prague for the 5th edition of the European conference of PostgreSQL, now called PGConf.eu. The “baby” once called PGDay has now grown into a 4 day conference...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: SSL Intermediate Certificates
A client today complained that they couldn't get SSL connections working with certificates signed with by non-root CA certs. I've never tried this before, although I have more than once successfully...
View ArticleDavid Fetter: How do you use PostgreSQL?
My company's commissioned a survey. We made it PostgreSQL-specific and will be sharing the raw data along with the processed results. http://svy.mk/TuMZYT
View ArticleMichael Paquier: Postgres 9.2 highlight: range types
One of the new features introduced by PostgreSQL 9.2 is called range types, which is, as you could easily guess based on this feature name, the possibility to use a range of values directly as a table...
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Guillaume LELARGE: pgconf.eu 2012, a quick recap
One year of work, that's all it takes to build such an event. That doesn't seem a lot, but believe me, it is. And we are still working: invoices to pay, feedbacks to collect, etc. But it's worth it....
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Oleg Bartunov: PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012
Many people already said, that the conference was great. Many thanks to organisers and sponsors ! I want to thank russian company 1C for support of my trip. I and Alexander Korotkov started our work on...
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Dimitri Fontaine: PostgreSQL for developers
As Guillaume says, we've been enjoying a great evening conference in Lyon 2 days ago, presenting PostgreSQL to developers. He did the first hour presenting the project and the main things you want to...
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David Wheeler: Mocking Serialization Failures
I’ve been hacking on the forthcoming Bucardo 5 code base the last couple weeks, as we’re going to start using it pretty extensively at work, and it needed a little love to get it closer to release. The...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Buildfarm gardening
Running a buildfarm member requires very little attention once you have it set up. That's as it should be, and was always a design goal. From time to time we get persistent failures, and I will send an...
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Szymon Guz: How to Make PostgreSQL Query Slow
Some applications can be very vulnerable to long running queries. When you test an application, sometimes it is good to have a query running for, let's say, 10 minutes. What's more it should be a...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Finding the origin of problems with git bisect
The other day some problems were observed with inherited constraints, and the following test case failed:CREATE TABLE test (a float check (a > 10.2)); CREATE TABLE test_child() INHERITS(test); ALTER...
View ArticleCraig Kerstiens: Using Postgres Arrays in Django
A few weeks back I did a brief feature highlight on Postgres arrays. Since that time I've found myself using them with increasing regularity on small side projects. Much of this time I'm using Django...
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Dimitri Fontaine: Editing SQL
It's uneasy to read my blog and not know I'm using Emacs. It really is a great tool and has a lot to compare to PostgreSQL in terms of extensibility, documentation quality and community. And there's...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: OpenSSL is fussy about the format of CRL files
Today I discovered that there can be dire consequences from having an improperly formatted Certificate Revocation List file. The consequence seems to be that if you do then all connections are...
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