203 Articles tagged “PostgreSQL”

PostgreSQL has had proper json support for a while now. The unique extensibility approach of the PostgreSQL system allows it to enable native SQL friendly JSON processing.

In this article we’ll play with the Magic: the Gathering card data in JSON format data set, provided with a CC0 licence, and process the information provided. We also see how to normalize a JSON document into a proper database model that benefits from some PostgreSQL advanced features, and how to then inject the JSON documents into the normalized database schema. Finally, we compare some non-trivial processing done against both versions of the database schema.

Mastering PostgreSQL in Application Development is the full title of the book I am currently writing. Running the PostgreSQL is YeSQL series of blog posts has shown me developers need a PostgreSQL book for developers. A book with the same properties as the YeSQL series articles in this blog: we use real world data sets to put every query and SQL technique we learn in the context of a user story or business case,

There’s a very rich set of PostgreSQL functions to process text, you can find them all at the String Functions and Operators documentation chapter, with functions such as overlay, substring, position or trim. Or aggregates such as string_agg. And then regular expression functions, including the very powerful regexp_split_to_table.

In a previous article here we saw How to Write SQL in your application code. The main idea in that article is to maintain your queries in separate SQL files, where it’s easier to maintain them. In particular if you want to be able to test them again in production, and when you have to work and rewrite queries.

Today pgloader v3.4.1 is released and available! This new release comes with 110 commits as show in github compare view.

This release of pgloader is following the tradition of simplifying things for users, or if you allow me to quote Alan Kay, I believe that if simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible.