PostgreSQL
Database Virtual Machines
Today I’m being told once again about SQLite as an embedded database software. That one ain’t a database server but a software library that you can use …
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PostgreSQL
Partitioning: relation size per “group”
This time, we are trying to figure out where is the bulk of the data on disk. The trick is that we’re using DDL partitioning, but we want a “nice” view of size per …
debian
Emacs and PostgreSQL
Those are my two all times favorite Open Source Software. Or Free Software in the GNU sense of the world, as both the BSD and the GPL are labeled free there. Even if I …
PostgreSQL
Background writers
There’s currently a thread on hackers about bg worker: overview and a series of 6 patches. Thanks a lot Markus! This is all about generalizing a concept already in …
PostgreSQL
Logs analysis
Nowadays to analyze logs and provide insights, the more common tool to use is pgfouine, which does an excellent job. But there has been some improvements in logs …
PostgreSQL
Using indexes as column store?
There’s a big trend nowadays about using column storage as opposed to what PostgreSQL is doing, which would be row storage. The difference is that if you have the …
Conferences
MVCC in the Cloud
At CHAR(10) Markus had a talk about Using MVCC for Clustered Database Systems and explained how Postgres-R does it. The scope of his project is to maintain a set of …
Conferences
Back from CHAR(10)
It surely does not feel like a full month and some more went by since we were enjoying PGCon 2010, but in fact it was already the time for CHAR(10). The venue was most …
PostgreSQL
Back from PgCon2010
This year’s edition has been the best pgcon ever for me. Granted, it’s only my third time, but still :) As Josh said the “Hall Track” in …
Projects
Import fixed width data with pgloader
So, following previous blog entries about importing fixed width data, from Postgres Online Journal and David (perl) Fetter, I couldn’t resist following the meme and …
Projects
pgloader activity report
Yes. This pgloader project is still maintained and somewhat active. Development happens when I receive a complaint, either about a bug in existing code or a feature in …
PostgreSQL
Finding orphaned sequences
This time we’re having a database where sequences were used, but not systematically as a default value of a given column. It’s mainly an historic bad idea, …