203 Articles tagged “PostgreSQL”

On the PostgreSQL Hackers mailing lists, Andrew Dunstan just proposed some new options for pg_dump and pg_restore to ease our lives. One of the answers was talking about some scripts available to exploit the pg_restore listing that you play with using options -l and -L, or the long name versions --list and --use-list. The pg_staging tool allows you to easily exploit those lists too. The pg_restore list is just a listing of one object per line of all objects contained into a custom dump, that is one made with pg_dump -Fc.

You can find skytools3 in debian experimental already, it’s in release candidate status. What’s missing is the documentation, so here’s an idea: I’m going to make a blog post series about skytools next features, how to use them, what they are good for, etc. This first article of the series will just list what are those new features. Here are the slides from the CHAR(11) talk I made last month, about that very subject:

As of pretty recently, pgfincore is now in debian, as you can see on its postgresql-9.0-pgfincore page. The reason why it entered the debian archives is that it reached the 1.0 release! Rather than talking about what pgfincore is all about ( A set of functions to manage pages in memory from PostgreSQL), I will talk about its packaging and support as a debian package. Here’s the first example of a modern multi-version packaging I have to offer.

To finish up the pgloader series, I’ve compiled all the information into a single page, the long awaited pgloader tutorial. That should help lots of users to get started with pgloader.

The previous articles in the pgloader series detailed How To Use PgLoader then How to Setup pgloader, then what to expect from a parallel pgloader setup, and then pgloader reformating. Another need you might encounter when you get to use pgloader is adding constant values into a table’s column.