Christophe Pettus: DjangoCon US 2013 CFP is open
The Call for Papers for DjangoCon US 2013 is now open.
View ArticleRaghavendra Rao: Disk page checksums to detect filesystem failures in...
New feature introduced in PostgreSQL 9.3Beta 1 i.e. "Disk page checksums". Thanks to authors Simon Riggs, Jeff Davis & Greg Smith.In earlier releases, if there's any data corruption block on disk...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Our commitment to quality is second to none.
If anyone doubts the total commitment of the Postgres project to quality and correctness, let them be reassured by this completely correct but decidedly pedantic commit. I dips me lid to Tom Lane and...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: PostgreSQL New Development Priorities 2: Pluggable Storage
Over the last decade, Greenplum, Vertica, Everest, Paraccel, and a number of non-public projects all forked off of PostgreSQL. In each case, one of the major changes to the forks was to radically...
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Joe Abbate: Pyrseas contributions solicited
Do you use PostgreSQL and truly believe it’s “the world’s most advanced open source database” and that its upcoming 9.3 release will make it even more awesome?Do you also use Python and believe it’s...
View ArticleSelena Deckelmann: Migrations with Alembic: a lightspeed tour
I’ve got a Beer & Tell to give about alembic. Alembic is a migration tool that works with SQLAlchemy. I’m using it for database migrations with PostgreSQL.So, here’s what I want to say...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: PostgreSQL New Development Priorities 3: Pluggable Parser
Really, when you look at the long-term viability of any platform, pluggability is where it's at. A lot of the success of PostgreSQL to date has been built on extensions and portability, just as the...
View ArticleMason Sharp: Backup and Recovery in Postgres-XC compared to PostgreSQL
Backup and recovery in Postgres-XC has some parallels to PostgreSQL, but with its own wrinkles.read more
View ArticleGabriele Bartolini: Configuring retention policies in Barman
In our previous article we went through describing what retention policies are and how they can be enforced on your PostgreSQL server backups with Barman 1.2. In this post, we will go through the...
View ArticleHubert 'depesz' Lubaczewski: Explaining the unexplainable – part 4
In this, hopefully 2nd to last, post in the series, I will cover the rest of usually happening operations that you can see in your explain outputs. Unique Name seems to be clear about what's going on...
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Selena Deckelmann: Distributed databases: a series of posts including 2-phase...
There’s a fantastic set of blog posts about distributed databases and network partitioning, starting with this post explaining the perils of trying to “communicate with someone who doesn’t know you’re...
View ArticleJosh Berkus: PostgreSQL New Development Priorities 4: Parallel Query
Parallel query is the first priority from those suggested in the comments that I agree should be a major PostgreSQL development priority. I think that Joel Jacobson summarized it neatly: Bring Back...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: Video Interview
I did a video interview while I was at ConFoo, and it is now online.
View ArticleJosh Berkus: PostgreSQL New Development Priorities 5: New User Experience
So, I started this looking for our five major goals for future PostgreSQL develoment. The last goal is more nebulous, but I think equally important with the other goals. It's this: improve the "new...
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Shaun M. Thomas: Winning (Free eBooks) is Everything
It occurs to me I forgot to congratulate the winners of the free ebooks. So without further adieu:SAB, who seems to host a nice blog geared toward server administration.Stephan, who’s looking to...
View ArticleIan Barwick: "Instant PostgreSQL Starter" review
Having recently posted some thoughts on Shaun Thomas' " "PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to" review ", Packt asked me if I'd like to review the new " Instant PostgreSQL Starter " by Daniel K. Lyons...
View ArticleLeo Hsu and Regina Obe: KNN GIST with a Lateral twist: Coming soon to a...
One of the things that really frustrated me about the KNN GIST distance box box centroid operators that came in PostgreSQL 9.1 and PostGIS 2.0 was the fact that one of the elements needed to be...
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Denish Patel: Inserting JSON data into Postgres using JDBC driver
One of the clients of OmniTI requested help to provide sample application to insert JSON data into Postgres using Java JDBC driver . I’m not Java expert so it took a while for me to write a simple java...
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Jignesh Shah: How to do Postgres Replication and Failover in VMware vFabric...
Last week VMware released vFabric Data Director 2.7. Among the many new features for various database, I wish to give a little more insight into my favorite ones which are regarding Postgres. One of...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: Kostal Pico to PostgreSQL
Everybody needs a little toy to play with, so I thought: Why not buy a toy helping me to get rid of my energy bill? So, I ordered a 10.5 kwp photovoltaic system for my house. The system was shipped...
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