The Art of PostgreSQL

Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014

Tuesday 25 Mar 2014 2 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs

Last week some PostgreSQL users, contributors and advocates have organized a really great conference in Stockholm, Sweden, where I had the please to give the following talk: *PostgreSQL is YeSQL!* Nordic PostgreSQL Conference The conference was very well put together and the occasion to meet with plenty of well known PostgreSQL friends and newcomers to the community too. If you were there, I hope you had as much of a good time than I did!

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Aggregating NBA data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB

Monday 17 Feb 2014 9 mins read PostgreSQL, YeSQL

MongoDB Statistics

When reading the article Crunching 30 Years of NBA Data with MongoDB Aggregation I coulnd’t help but think that we’ve been enjoying aggregates in SQL for 3 or 4 decades already. When using PostgreSQL it’s even easy to actually add your own aggregates given the SQL command create aggregate.

PostgreSQL FOSDEM Conference

Monday 03 Feb 2014 1 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs

FOSDEM Extensions Conferences

Back from the FODESM 2014 Conference, here’s the slides I’ve been using for the Advanced Extension Use Cases talk I gave, based on the ongoing work to be found under the Tour of Extensions index in this web site. If you’re interested into the talk contents, then you might be interested into the following list of articles where I actually did all the work leading to the slides in the above PDF:

FOSDEM 2014

Wednesday 29 Jan 2014 1 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs

Conferences FOSDEM

This year again the PostgreSQL community is organising a FOSDEM PGDay rigth before the main event. Have a look at the PostgreSQL FOSDEM Schedule, it’s packed with awesome talks… personnaly, it’s been awhile since I wanted to see so many of them! I will be talking about Advanced Extension Use Cases on Friday, see you in Brussels!

PostgreSQL User Group Paris

Wednesday 15 Jan 2014 2 mins read Conferences, Meetup

PostgreSQLFr Conferences Meetup

Notre première rencontre des utilisateurs Parisiens de PostgreSQL avait eu lieue le 28 novembre 2013 et a fait l’objet d’un billet de présentation ici-même : l’article Groupe d’Utilisateurs PostgreSQL à Paris annonce la création du groupe ! Magnus Hagander, core-team member Pour notre seconde rencontre, un membre de la “core-team” de PostgreSQL sera parmis nous. En effet Magnus Hagander de passage à Paris viendra nous présenter un sujet soumis au vote : préférez-vous entendre parler de PostgreSQL 9.

El-Get is now Rolling Releases

Saturday 11 Jan 2014 1 mins read Emacs, el-get

El-Get Emacs

The code of El-Get has been pretty stable for a long time now. About the whole set of patches against the 4.x series has been about bug fixing corner cases (sometimes cases that had nothing cornery about them too) and providing more and more recipes. That’s what you expect from a stable software, and that what allows us to move to a rolling releases model. In practice, it means that you won’t have to suffer from using a badly maintained stable branch anymore.