PostgreSQL
PgCon 2009
I can’t really compare PgCon 2009 with previous years versions, last time I enjoyed the event it was in 2006, in Toronto. But still I found the experience to be a …
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.
Projects
Prepared Statements and pgbouncer
On the performance mailing list, a recent thread drew my attention. It devired to be about using a connection pool software and prepared statements in order to increase …
PostgreSQL
Skytools 3.0 reaches alpha1
It’s time for Skytools news again! First, we did improve documentation of current stable branch with hosting high level presentations and tutorials on the …
Projects
Prefix GiST index now in 8.1
The prefix project is about matching a literal against prefixes in your table, the typical example being a telecom routing table. Thanks to the excellent work around …
PostgreSQL
Importing XML content from file
The problem was raised this week on IRC and this time again I felt it would be a good occasion for a blog entry: how to load an XML file content into a single field? The …
Conferences
Asko Oja talks about Skype architecture
In this russian page you’ll see a nice presentation of Skype databases architectures by Asko Oja himself. It’s the talk at Russian PostgreSQL Community …
PostgreSQL
Skytools ticker daemon and londiste
One of the difficulties in getting to understand and configure londiste reside in the relation between the ticker and the replication. This question was raised once more …
PostgreSQL
Comparing Londiste and Slony
In the page about Skytools I’ve encouraged people to ask some more questions in order for me to be able to try and answer them. That just happened, as usual on the …
PostgreSQL
Controling HOT usage in 8.3
As it happens, I’ve got some environments where I want to make sure HOT ( aka Heap Only Tuples) is in use. Because we’re doing so much updates a second that I …
PostgreSQL
Londiste Trick
So, you’re using londiste and the ticker has not been running all night long, due to some restart glitch in your procedures, and the on call admin didn’t …
Emacs
Useful emacs trick
Watch Kevin Kelly’s Talk here, it’s about trying to predict what the Internet will look like 5 thousands days from now.
debian
emacs-snapshot
If you want to live on the bleeding edge, it’s easy enough to get a non existing release of GNU Emacs under debian sid, thanks to http://emacs.orebokech.com/. The …