Leo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostgreSQL 9.0 Cheat Sheet Overview
To celebrate the arrival of the long awaited PostgreSQL 9.0, we have prepared a multi-page PostgreSQL 9.0 cheat sheet that covers prior PostgreSQL constructs plus new 9.0 features. PDF version of this...
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: Monitoring streaming replication lag
Once you've set up the great new Streaming Replication with Hot Standby in PostgreSQL 9.0, you need to somehow monitor it. I've created a simple Munin plugin to graph the lag between the master and the...
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Greg Sabino Mullane: Postgres configuration best practices
This is the first in an occasional series of articles about configuring PostgreSQL. The main way to do this, of course, is the postgresql.conf file, which is read by the Postgres daemon on startup and...
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Jon Jensen: PostgreSQL 8.4 in RHEL/CentOS 5.5
The announcement of end of support coming soon for PostgreSQL 7.4, 8.0, and 8.1 means that people who've put off upgrading their Postgres systems are running out of time before they're in the danger...
View ArticleDevrim GÜNDÜZ: What is new in PostgreSQL 9.0 RPMs?
I know it's been more than a week since I published 9.0 RPMs, and I'm a bit late to write this article -- sorry, I just could find time. Continue reading " What is new in PostgreSQL 9.0 RPMs?"
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: PostGIS 1.5.2 is out
The PostGIS development team is produ to announce the availability of PostGIS 1.5.2. Further details are on the postgis.org website PostGIS 1.5.2 release. Leo and I are still working on the windows...
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Robert Haas: Stupid Git Tricks for PostgreSQL
Even before PostgreSQL switched to git, we had a git mirror of our old CVS repository. So I suppose I could have hacked up these scripts any time. But I didn't get around to it until we really did...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Quick Status Update
Sometimes I wish I weren’t such a perfectionist. But not often. A quick update: So far, I’ve spent 43 hours on the PGXN Manager database. I had estimated 24 hours. Ha ha ha ha ha! I’ve spent 45 hours...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Break out your credit card, support #PGXN
PGXN is the stuff. It is going to enable a whole new ecosystem of software for PostgreSQL complete with easy install, easy search, modular design and yeah unfortunately Perl.That said, it is time to...
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David E. Wheeler: Account Requests and Moderation
Last week I created the PGXN Manager interface for requesting a PGXN user account. It looks like this: I really like the placeholder support in HTML 5, here nicely rendered by Safari. I’ve also used...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: Oracle MySQL increasing support pricing
Oracle MySQL recently started sending letters to their current clients about upcoming price changes[1]. It is certainly expected that Oracle would increase pricing, but I wonder by how much? Oracle...
View ArticleDavid E. Wheeler: Conflict and Redirection on POST
Had an interesting discussion on #plack. The upload form, which takes a POST request for an upload, sends a redirect on a successful form submission. This is known as the Post/Redirect/Get (RDG)...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest, have you booked your room?
If you have not booked your room for PgWest, now is the time. There is a very real possibility that the cost of the hotel will go up in the next week. Now is not the time to be a traditional geek...
View ArticleBaron Schwartz: Postgres folks, consider the 2011 MySQL conference
I’d like to encourage everyone in the Postgres world to submit session proposals to the 2011 O’Reilly MySQL conference. It’ll be a different event this year. We’re looking for a breadth as well as a...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Changing ID
Today I discovered that github labels all commits made with my email address with my github username, even on repos I don't own. People who know me on IRC would probably not be surprised by seeing a...
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Pavel Stehule: PostgreSQL 9.1 - iteration over array
I finished patch that enable iteration over array. I hope so new syntax can helps to better readability. There are a few samples from regress tests:create or replace function fora_test()returns int as...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PgWest 2010: Talk Descriptions are up
The talk descriptions for PgWest 2010 are now up. As you can see, there is a lot of content that will be presented over the three days. There is a great mix of developer and user (DBA) content. If you...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: PGXN: Are you a benefactor?
O.k. so I have been pushing on everyone I know to support PGXN. Command Prompt, (you know, us) hadn't bothered to donate. Mainly we hadn't donated because we wanted to be a founding sponsor but just...
View ArticleJoshua Drake: MySQL does what? (Division by integers and 0)
I was sitting in #postgresql today (no not the twitter, the irc) talking to some of the community peeps and I came across this tidbit. MySQL casts integers to float before division[1]. Say what?...
View ArticleChris Spotts: Thinking like a database: Explicit Loops
The number one problem with people is that they're not computers. Ok, ok, thats a little broad. We'll be more precise than that. The problem with many developers writing queries and procedures for...
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