Category “pgloader” — 28 articles

Current trend in software deployments is to rely on open source software for entire production stacks. You can find open source software in the core technical stacks of every startup out there, I’m told. If you’re using Cloud based offerings, most of Cloud providers are running Free/Libre Open Source Software as their foundation.

This article is a deep dive into the economic models behind successful open source projects and communities, and how as a professional, enterprise grade user, you depend on the long-term sustainability of all the open source projects you’re using. And because you depend on the projects you’re using to be successful, how to contribute and guarantee their success.

After having been involved in many migration projects over the last 10 years, I decided to publish the following White Paper in order to share my learnings.

The paper is titled Migrating to PostgreSQL, Tools and Methodology and details the Continuous Migration approach. It describes how to migrate from another relational database server technology to PostgreSQL. The reasons to do so are many, and first among them is often the licensing model.

Today pgloader v3.4.1 is released and available! This new release comes with 110 commits as show in github compare view.

This release of pgloader is following the tradition of simplifying things for users, or if you allow me to quote Alan Kay, I believe that if simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.

Common Lisp users are very happy to use Quicklisp when it comes to downloading and maintaining dependencies between their own code and the librairies it is using.

pgloader loads data into PostgreSQL. The new version is stable enough nowadays that it’s soon to be released, the last piece of the 3.1.0 puzzle being full debian packaging of the tool.