Conferences
MVCC in the Cloud
At CHAR(10) Markus had a talk about Using MVCC for Clustered Database Systems and explained how Postgres-R does it. The scope of his project is to maintain a set of …
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.
Conferences
Back from CHAR(10)
It surely does not feel like a full month and some more went by since we were enjoying PGCon 2010, but in fact it was already the time for CHAR(10). The venue was most …
PostgreSQL
Back from PgCon2010
This year’s edition has been the best pgcon ever for me. Granted, it’s only my third time, but still :) As Josh said the “Hall Track” in …
Projects
Import fixed width data with pgloader
So, following previous blog entries about importing fixed width data, from Postgres Online Journal and David (perl) Fetter, I couldn’t resist following the meme and …
Projects
pgloader activity report
Yes. This pgloader project is still maintained and somewhat active. Development happens when I receive a complaint, either about a bug in existing code or a feature in …
PostgreSQL
Finding orphaned sequences
This time we’re having a database where sequences were used, but not systematically as a default value of a given column. It’s mainly an historic bad idea, …
Software Programming
Emacs Muse hacking
Now you know what piece of software is used to publish this blog. I really like it, the major mode makes it a great experience to be using this tool, and the fact that …
PostgreSQL
Getting out of SQL_ASCII, part 2
So, if you followed the previous blog entry, now you have a new database containing all the static tables encoded in UTF-8 rather than SQL_ASCII. Because if it was not …
PostgreSQL
Getting out of SQL_ASCII, part 1
It happens that you have to manage databases designed by your predecessor, and it even happens that the team used to not have a DBA. Those histerical raisins can lead to …
PostgreSQL
Resetting sequences. All of them, please!
So, after restoring a production dump with intermediate filtering, none of our sequences were set to the right value. I could have tried to review the process of …
Projects
pg_staging's bird view
One of the most important feedback I got about the presentation of pgstaging were the lack of pictures, something like a bird-view of how you operate it. Well, thanks to …
Conferences
PGday.eu feedback
At pgday there was this form you could fill to give speakers some feedback about their talks. And that’s a really nice way as a speaker to know what to improve. And …