PostgreSQL
List PostgreSQL tables using extensions
Postgres has extensions, and that’s awesome! Of course as the author of CREATE EXTENSION I’m a little biased… just remember that the ability to extend …
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PostgreSQL
Geolocation with PostgreSQL
We have loaded Open Street Map points of interests in the article The Most Popular Pub Names — which compares PostgreSQL with MongoDB for simple geographical queries, and …
Conferences
PostgreSQL FOSDEM Conference
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
Projects
Loading Geolocation Data
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 …
PostgreSQL
Using trigrams against typos
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 …
PostgreSQL
Auditing Changes with Hstore
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 …
PostgreSQL
Trigger Parameters
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 …
PostgreSQL
How far is the nearest pub?
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 …