debian
Multi-Version support for Extensions
We still have this problem to solve with extensions and their packaging. How to best organize things so that your extension is compatible with before 9.1 and 9.1 and …
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PostgreSQL
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Conferences
Back from Ottawa, preparing for Cambridge
While Magnus is all about PG Conf EU already, you have to realize we’re just landed back from PG Con in Ottawa. My next stop in the annual conferences is CHAR 11, …
PostgreSQL
Preparing for PGCON
It’s this time of the year again, the main international PostgreSQL Conference is next week in Ottawa, Canada. If previous years are any indication, this will be …
PostgreSQL
Tables and Views dependencies
Let’s say you need to ALTER TABLE foo ALTER COLUMN bar TYPE bigint;, and PostgreSQL is helpfully telling you that no you can’t because such and such views …
Projects
Extension module_pathname and .sql.in
While currently too busy at work to deliver much Open Source contributions, let’s debunk an old habit of PostgreSQL extension authors. It’s all down to copy …
debian
Some notes about Skytools3
I’ve been working on skytools3 packaging lately. I’ve been pushing quite a lot of work into it, in order to have exactly what I needed out of the box, after …
Projects
towards pg_staging 1.0
If you don’t remember about what pg_staging is all about, it’s a central console from where to control all your PostgreSQL databases. Typically you use it to …
Conferences
Extensions in 9.1
If you’ve not been following closely you might have missed out on extensions integration. Well, Tom spent some time on the patches I’ve been preparing for the …
Conferences
Back from FOSDEM
This year we were in the main building of the conference, and apparently the booth went very well, solding lots of PostgreSQL merchandise etc. I had the pleasure to once …
Conferences
Going to FOSDEM
A quick blog entry to say that yes: And I will even do my Extension’s talk which had a success at pgday.eu. The talk will be updated to include the last …
PostgreSQL
pg_basebackup
Hannu just gave me a good idea in this email on -hackers, proposing that pg_basebackup should get the xlog files again and again in a loop for the whole duration of the …
Projects
Introducing Extensions
After reading Simon’s blog post, I can’t help but try to give some details about what it is exactly that I’m working on. As he said, there are several …