This is part of a series of blogs on Java & PostgreSQL. For links to other blogs in this series, please scroll to the end of this post. Starting v9.2, PostgreSQL is providing native data type support for JSON objects. Subsequent releases introduced JSONB (binary formatted JSON objects) and many data manipulation functions for JSONs, […]
When I talk to various people about PostgreSQL, based on where they are in the process of analyzing it, I get asked many similar questions. One of the most frequently asked questions is: What is the PostgreSQL licensing model? Here is my attempt to address this question from the perspective of what the PostgreSQL license […]
The PostgreSQL user community is becoming spoilt with a choice of excellent events organized by both local user groups and commercial organizations supporting the PostgreSQL project. And amongst the events taking place in December, the one you definitely shouldn’t miss attending is CHAR(16). ‘CHAR(16): Scalability for Business’ is intended to fulfill a different requirement – different […]
PGDG announced the General Availability of PostgreSQL 9.6 on the 29th of September. Like each year, this new release brings with it a lot of exciting new features. Using these features, of course, requires installing PostgreSQL … a task that can be a touch daunting for novice users. 2UDA, a graphical installer for PostgreSQL, is designed to […]
The latest version of PostgreSQL 9.6 is planned to be released later today, bringing with it some much anticipated features and updates. As the most advanced open source database, PostgreSQL strives to release a major version roughly once every year. With an active and collaborative community, this PostgreSQL release boasts impressive features and updates thanks […]
I was in Jakarta a couple of weeks ago and there happened to be a meetup of the Indonesia PUG in Bandung while I was there. Because it is just a 2 hour, rather picturesque drive, from Jakarta, I thought it was too good of an opportunity to miss. So I showed up. The meetup was hosted […]
Querydsl is a domain model centric ORM that was created out of a need to add typesafety to HQL. As demonstrated in my blog on HQL, to write queries using HQL, at times long string concatenations need to be used. Such strings are not only hard to read, they are prone to runtime errors, avoiding […]
jOOQ is an ORM-alternative that is relational model centric rather than domain model centric like most ORMs. For example, while Hibernate lets you write Java code and then automatically translates it to SQL, jOOQ let’s you write relational objects in your database using SQL and then automatically generates Java code to map to those relational […]
In my previous blog, I talked about using Java arrays to talk to PostgreSQL arrays. This blog is going to go one step further in using Java against the database. Hibernate is an ORM implementation available to use with PostgreSQL. Here we discuss its query language, HQL. The syntax for HQL is very close to […]
Arrays are a powerful programming feature frequently used by developers, both in Java and in PL/pgSQL. Interfaces can potentially become tricky, however, when the two try and talk to each other. This section explores how you can write simple code that uses the java.sql.Array Interface to insert, retrieve, & update arrays in PostgreSQL. To illustrate […]
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