Conferences
FOSDEM 2014
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 …
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Conferences
PostgreSQL User Group Paris
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 : …
Emacs
El-Get is now Rolling Releases
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 …
Conferences
Groupe d'Utilisateurs PostgreSQL à Paris
Comme annoncé dans un mail sur la liste de diffusion pgsql-fr-generale j’ai le plaisir de démarrer un groupe de rencontres PostgreSQL à Paris ! Les détails …
Projects
Import fixed width data with pgloader
A long time ago we talked about how to Import fixed width data with pgloader, following up on other stories still online at Postgres OnLine Journal and on David …
Projects
Migrating Sakila from MySQL to PostgreSQL
As presented at the PostgreSQL Conference Europe the new version of pgloader is now able to fully migrate a MySQL database, including discovering the schema, casting data …
Conferences
Back From Dublin
Last week I had the pleasure to present two talks at the awesome PostgreSQL Conference Europe. The first one was actually a tutorial about Writing & using Postgres …
PostgreSQL
Denormalizing Tags
In our Tour of Extensions today’s article is about advanced tag indexing. We have a great data collection to play with and our goal today is to be able to quickly …
Conferences
An Interview about MariaDB and PostgreSQL
At the Open World Forum two weeks ago I had the pleasure to meet with Colin Charles. We had a nice talk about the current state of both MariaDB and PostgreSQL, and even …
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL Autonomous Transaction
PostgreSQL is an all round impressive Relational DataBase Management System which implements the SQL standard (see the very useful reference page Comparison of different …
Conferences
Open World Forum Conference
Last Friday I had the chance to be speaking at the Open World Forum in the NewSQL track, where we had lots of interest and excitement around the NoSQL offerings. Of …
Projects
A Worthwile Micro Optimisation
In our previous article about Loading Geolocation Data, we did load some data into PostgreSQL and saw the quite noticable impact of a user transformation. As it happens, …