Getting more out of PostgreSQL

Notes on SQL technique, data modeling, and PostgreSQL internals — from the author of The Art of PostgreSQL. New articles are built on the free Lab so you can run every query yourself.

debian

PostgreSQL and debian

After talking about it for a very long time, work finally did begin! I’m talking about the apt.postgresql.org build system that will allow us, in the long run, to …

PostgreSQL

Skytools, version 3

You can find skytools3 in debian experimental already, it’s in release candidate status. What’s missing is the documentation, so here’s an idea: …

PostgreSQL

Échappement de chaînes

Parmis les nouveautés de la prochaine version de PostgreSQL, la fameuse 9.1, il faut signaler le changement de valeur par défaut de la variable …

Emacs

el-get-list-packages

From the first days of el-get is was quite clear for me that we would reach a point where users would want a nice listing including descriptions of the packages, and a …

Projects

Tutoriel pgloader

En reprenant le contenu des articles de la série sur pgloader, j’ai pris le temps de compiler un tutoriel complet, en anglais. Si j’en crois les quelques …

Projects

pgloader tutorial

To finish up the pgloader series, I’ve compiled all the information into a single page, the long awaited pgloader tutorial. That should help lots of users to get …

Projects

Champs statiques & pgloader

Dans la série de nos articles sur pgloader, l’article du jour décrit comment insérer des valeurs constantes (absentes du fichier de données) pendant le chargement. …

Projects

pgloader constant cols

The previous articles in the pgloader series detailed How To Use PgLoader then How to Setup pgloader, then what to expect from a parallel pgloader setup, and then …

Emacs

Emacs Startup

Using Emacs we get to manage a larger and larger setup file (either ~/.emacs or ~/.emacs.d/init.el), sometime with lots of dependencies, and some sub-files thanks to the …

Projects

pgloader reformating

Back to our series about pgloader. The previous articles detailed How To Use PgLoader then How to Setup pgloader, then what to expect from a parallel pgloader setup. This …