PostgreSQL
Synchronous Replication
Although the new asynchronous replication facility that ships with 9.0 ain’t released to the wide public yet, our hackers hero are already working on the …
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el-get and dim-switch-window status update
Thanks to you readers of Planet Emacsen taking the time to try those pieces of emacs lisp found in my blog, and also the time to comment on them, some bugs have been …
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debian packaging PostgreSQL extensions
In trying to help an extension debian packaging effort, I’ve once again proposed to handle it. That’s because I now begin to know how to do it, as you can see …
PostgreSQL
Querying the Catalog to plan an upgrade
Some user on IRC was reading the releases notes in order to plan for a minor upgrade of his 8.3.3 installation, and was puzzled about potential needs for rebuilding GIST …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Yet Another PostgreSQL tool hits debian
So there it is, this newer contribution of mine that I presented at PGDay is now in debian NEW queue. pg_staging will empower you with respect to what you do about those …
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prefix 1.0.0
So there it is, at long last, the final 1.0.0 release of prefix! It’s on its way into the debian repository (targetting sid, in testing in 10 days) and available on …
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hstore-new & preprepare reach debian too
It seems like debian developers are back from annual conference and holiday, so they have had a look at the NEW queue and processed the packages in there. Two of them …
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prefix 1.0~rc2 in debian testing
At long last, here it is. With binary versions both for postgresal-8.3 and postgresal-8.4! Unfortunately my other packaging efforts are still waiting on the NEW queue, …
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prefix extension reaches 1.0 (rc1)
At long last, after millions and millions of queries just here at work and some more in other places, the prefix project is reaching 1.0 milestone. The release candidate …