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Some of my Italian colleagues have made a nifty little gadget called redislog for pushing postgres logs into Redis, the distributed in-memory cache. From there it can be fed into things like logstash. I thought it would be interesting instead to make the logs available via the Redis Foreign Data Wrapper as a Postgres table. […]
Recently I was asked “what’s a vpath build?” If you regularly build postgres from source it’s something you should know about. A vpath build is one where the build tree is kept completely separate from the source tree, so you can completely remove the build tree and your source tree is still there, clean and […]
I have released version 4.19 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client. It can be downloaded from http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-4_19.tgz Apart from some minor bug fixes, the following changes are made: Include the script’s path in @INC. That means you can usually run the script from anywhere rather than just its own directory. Set TZ after “make check” is […]
I have just committed a series of patches that provide support for enum types in the btree_gin and btree_gist standard extensions. This is something I first started work on about a year ago. It turned out to be more involved that I had first thought it would be, as it requires some additional core code […]
My colleague Álvaro Herrera gave a terrific explanation of the new XMLTABLE feature from Pavel Stěhule that he’s put a huge amount of effort into, and finally recently committed. I thought it would be fun to see how the example he gave might work today with JSON. First, I came up with a JSON equivalent […]
Recently we switched the PostgreSQL Buildfarm to use https for its front-facing web transactions. That’s worked pretty well, but one thing got broken in the change. The registration page uses a Captcha to help avoid web spam, which has been a problem in the past. However, the code to fetch the relevant html was still […]
The Amazon RDS documentation blithely contains this statement: “When you create a DB instance, the master user system account that you create is assigned to the rds_superuser role. The rds_superuser role is similar to the PostgreSQL superuser role (customarily named postgres in local instances) but with some restrictions.” But just how super is it? One […]
Using a managed service is a very attractive proposition. You are offloading a heck of a lot of worry, especially when it comes to something as complicated and, let’s face it, specialized as a database. Someone else will set it up for you, and back it up, and keep it running, without you having to […]
