Michael Paquier: Postgres 9.3 feature highlight: new verbose error fields
PostgreSQL is already pretty useful for application developers when returning to client error messages by providing a certain level of details with multiple distinct fields like the position of the...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: PgCon Developer Meeting Concluded
We just concluded the PgCon Developer Meeting. The two big items from me were that EnterpriseDB has dedicated staff to start work on parallelizing Postgres queries, particularly in-memory sorts. I have...
View ArticleHeikki Linnakangas: pg_rewind, a tool for resynchronizing after failover
I’ve been hacking on a tool to allow resynchronizing an old master server after failover. Please take a look: https://github.com/vmware/pg_rewind.
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Developer meeting went well
There seems to be a consensus, which I share, that the annual PostgreSQL Developers Meeting went much better this year that in the previous couple of years.One item of note: the commit fest managers...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Buildfarm download location
It was just pointed out to me that the download link on the buidfarm server front page wasn't updated when I fixed the other links after switching to publishing them on the buildfarm server itself....
View ArticlePierre Ducroquet: Review – “Instant PostgreSQL Starter”
Thanks to Shaun M. Thomas, I have been offered a numeric copy of the “Instant PostgreSQL Backup” book from Packt publishing, and was provided with the “Instant PostgreSQL Starter” book to review....
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Blackhole FDW
My Blackhole FDW talk seemed to go well. The line about no unintentional data loss got the best laugh. Here are the slides.Besides being a bit of fun, this did have a serious purpose - creating a...
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Greg Smith: Seeking Revisited: Intel 320 Series and NCQ
Running accurate database benchmark tests is hard. I’ve managed to publish a good number of them without being embarrassed by errors in procedure or results, but today I have a retraction to make....
View ArticleBruce Momjian: New Presentation Online
I delivered my presentation "Nulls Make Things Easier?" today at PGCon, so I have placed my slides online. The presentation is based on a series of eleven blog posts about NULLs I did a few months ago.
View ArticleRobert Haas: Query Planning Gone Wrong
Over the past few years, I've been making notes on pgsql-performance postings, specifically those postings which relate to query performance issues. Today, I gave a talk at PGCon on the data I've been...
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Selena Deckelmann: The People of Postgres: Tom Lane
This post was originally posted on Medium, a new blogging platform made up mostly of people who aren’t necessarily subscribed to Planet. So, please forgive the obvious statements, as the target...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Redis talk slides
Here are the slides from my talk on PostgreSQL and Redis.
View ArticleIan Barwick: Custom Background Worker: a practical example
A while back I posted some SQL which helps track of changes to the PostgreSQL settings file. I've found it useful when benchmarking tests with different settings, but unfortunately the...
View ArticleHans-Juergen Schoenig: CREATE TABLE – the fancy way
One tiny little feature many users of PostgreSQL have often forgotten is the ability to create similar tables. It happens quite frequently that you want to create a table, which is just like some other...
View ArticleAndrew Dunstan: Redis FDW Singleton Key tables
I recently mentioned the possibility of tables being drawn from a single Redis object, so you would get one row per key/value pair in the named hash, or one row per element in the named scalar, set,...
View ArticleBruce Momjian: PGCon Conference Report
PGCon certainly had some energizing talks and meetings this week. First, Jonathan Katz gave a tutorial about Postgres data types. Though I missed his talk, I just reviewed his slides and it is...
View ArticleMagnus Hagander: New committers to PostgreSQL
During the closing session of PGCon this year, the core team announced the addition of four new committers to PostgreSQL:Jeff DavisStephen FrostFujii MasaoNoah MischThese have all been involved in both...
View ArticleEmanuel Calvo: Insights from the PgCon 2013
PgCon 2013 was been attended by 256 people across the globe. Attendees had the opportunity to enjoy tutorials, talks and an excellent unconference (this last deserves a special mention).I lectured a...
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Joel Jacobson: Fun with pg_catalog.pg_depend
Learning PostgreSQL and SQL in general probably begins with the concept of TABLES. Then probably VIEWS, INDEXES and maybe TRIGGERS. Some users might not ever go any further, which is sad, because there...
View ArticleThom Brown: Accepted Google Summer of Code projects 2013
This year's accepted Google Summer of Code projects have been published. Among them are 3 accepted proposals for PostgreSQL which not only will be fine addition to PostgreSQL's set of features, but...
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