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As I’ve been mentionning in the past already, I’m currently rewriting pgloader from scratch in Common Lisp. In terms of technical debt that’s akin to …

As I’ve been mentionning in the past already, I’m currently rewriting pgloader from scratch in Common Lisp. In terms of technical debt that’s akin to …

Have you heard about the Open World Forum conference that takes place in Paris, October 3-5, 2013? I’ll be presenting a talk about PostgreSQL in the track NewSQL: …

The following story is only interesting to read if you like it when bad things happen, or if you don’t have a trustworthy backup policy in place. By trustworthy I …

In our ongoing Tour of Extensions we played with earth distance in How far is the nearest pub? then with hstore in a series about trigger, first to generalize Trigger …

In a previous article about Trigger Parameters we have been using the extension hstore in order to compute some extra field in our records, where the fields used both for …

Sometimes you want to compute values automatically at INSERT time, like for example a duration column out of a start and an end column, both timestamptz. It’s easy …

There was SQL before window functions and SQL after window functions: that’s how powerful this tool is. Being that of a deal breaker unfortunately means that it can …

About the only time when I will accept to work with MySQL is when you need help to migrate away from it because you decided to move to PostgreSQL instead. And it’s …

In our recent article about The Most Popular Pub Names we did have a look at how to find the pubs nearby, but didn’t compute the distance in between that pub and …

In his article titled The Most Popular Pub Names Ross Lawley did show us how to perform some quite interesting geographic queries against MongoDB, using some nice Open …

After spending an awesome week in San Francisco, CA I’m lucky enough to be spending another week in the USA, in Portand, OR. The main excuse for showing up here has …

Those days feel really lucky to me. I’m currently visiting friends and customers in San Francisco, and really enjoying my trip here! Of course Josh Berkus took the …