203 Articles tagged “PostgreSQL”

Now that you’re all using the wonders of Cooperative Consumers to help you efficiently and reliably implement your business constraints and offload them from the main user transactions, you’re reaching a point where you have to clean up your development environment (because that’s what happens to development environments, right?), and you want a way to start again from a clean empty place. Here we go. It used to be much more simple than that, so if you’re still using PGQ from Skytools2, just jump to the next step.

While working a new PostgreSQL architecture for an high scale project that used to be in the top 10 of internet popular web sites (in terms of visitors), I needed to be able to off load some processing from the main path: that’s called a batch job. This needs to be transactional: don’t run the job if we did rollback; the transaction, process all events that were part of the same transaction in the same transaction, etc.

PostgreSQL 9.1 includes proper extension support, as you might well know if you ever read this very blog here. Some hosting facilities are playing with PostgreSQL at big scale (hello Heroku!) and still meet with small caveats making their life uneasy. To be specific, only superusers are allowed to install C coded stored procedures, and that impacts a lot of very useful PostgreSQL extension: all those shiped in the contrib package are coded in C.

It seems that if you search for a munin plugin for pgbouncer it’s easy enough to reach an old page of mine with an old version of my plugin, and a broken link. Let’s remedy that by publishing here the newer version of the plugin. To be honest, I though it already made its way into the official munin 1.4 set of plugins, but I’ve not been following closely enough.

Another great conference took place last week, PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 was in Amsterdam and plenty of us PostgreSQL geeks were too. I attended to lot of talks and did learn some more about our project, its community and its features, but more than that it was a perfect occasion to meet with the community. Dave Page talked about SQL/MED under the title PostgreSQL at the center of your dataverse and detailed what to expert from a Foreign Data Wrapper in PostgreSQL 9.