Thanks to the Postgres Weekly issue #89 and a post to Hacker News front page (see Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp it well seems that I just had my first Slashdot effect…
PostgreSQL comes with an awesome bulk copy protocol and tooling best known
as the
COPY and
\copy commands. Being a transactional system, PostgreSQL
COPY implementation will
ROLLBACK any work done if a single error is found
in the data set you’re importing. That’s the reason why
pgloader got
started: it provides with error handling for the
COPY protocol.
Next month, Postgres Open 2014 is happening in Chicago, and I’ll have the pleasure to host a tutorial about PostgreSQL Extensions Writing & Using Postgres Extensions, and a talk aimed at developers wanting to make the best out of PostgreSQL, PostgreSQL for developers:
The tutorial is based on first hand experience on the PostgreSQL Extension Packaging System both as a user and a developer. It’s a series of practical use cases where using extensions will simplify your life a lot, and each of those practical use case is using real world data (thanks to pgloader).
Earlier this year we did compare compare Aggregating NBA data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB then talked about PostgreSQL, Aggregates and histograms where we even produced a nice Histogram chart directly within the awesome psql console. Today, let’s get that same idea to the next level, with pgcharts:
*The new [pgcharts](https://github.com/dimitri/pgcharts) application* The application’s specifications are quite simple: edit an SQL query, set your categories and your data series, add in some legends, and get a nice chart.
