PostgreSQL development is now done with periodic pauses to review and commit patches that have been submitted, called Commit Fests. The patches themselves are stored on a custom web app, and documentation about the process is on the PostgreSQL wiki. I’m returning to the role of CommitFest manager for this one, which means I get […]
Updates to PostgreSQL testing tools with benchmark archive
/1 Comment/in Greg's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL /by 2ndQuadrant PressI maintain a number of project whose purpose in life is to make testing portions of PostgreSQL easier. All of these got a decent upgrade over this last week. stream-scaling tests how memory speed increases on servers as more cores are brought into play. It’s fascinating data, enough of it there to start seeing some […]
Telling Your Users to Go Fork Themselves
/1 Comment/in Greg's PlanetPostgreSQL, PostgreSQL /by 2ndQuadrant PressAs the PostgreSQL Elephant continues its march toward yet another release, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the role users of software should have in its user interface design. Today I proposed something that makes a database parameter people used to have to worry about, and that wasn’t obvious at all how to set, […]
Easier PostgreSQL 9.0 clusters with repmgr
/0 Comments/in Greg's PlanetPostgreSQL, International News, United Kingdom News, United States News /by 2ndQuadrant PressWhen PostgreSQL 9.0 shipped a few months ago, it included several new replication features. It’s obvious that you can use these features to build clusters of servers for both high availability and read query scaling purposes. What hasn’t been so obvious is how to manage that cluster easily. Getting a number of nodes installed and […]
100% PostgreSQL again
/1 Comment/in Susanne's PlanetPostgreSQL /by susanne.ebrechtpgChess code published
/0 Comments/in Gianni's PlanetPostgreSQL /by Gianni CiolliI have been lucky enough to be invited at the marvellous PGDay.eu 2012 conference in Stuttgart, which ended just yesterday. The topic of the first of my two talks has been a collection of PostgreSQL objects that play chess, either between themselves or against a human.
Australia: Last seats for our PostgreSQL courses in Melbourne
/0 Comments/in Gabriele's PlanetPostgreSQL, International News /by Gabriele Bartolini2ndQuadrant will be delivering two courses on PostgreSQL in Australia. The location will be the prestigious Rialto Towers, one of the greatest attractions in Melbourne, right in the heart of the Central Business District, and one of the tallest office buildings in the world.
PostgreSQL CommitFest #3 for 9.1 needs you!
/0 Comments/in Greg's PlanetPostgreSQL, United States News /by 2ndQuadrant PressPostgreSQL development is now done with periodic pauses to review and commit patches that have been submitted, called Commit Fests. The patches themselves are stored on a custom web app, and documentation about the process is on the PostgreSQL wiki. I’m returning to the role of CommitFest manager for this one, which means I get […]
PG West talks
/0 Comments/in Greg's PlanetPostgreSQL, United States News /by 2ndQuadrant PressMy tour this week of the PostgreSQL West conference has taught me that you can deliver three talks in two days, or you can have fun seeing other people’s talks, but it’s rather difficult to do both. You can also find the slides from Hannu’s talk on Django/Python database calls, which unfortunately he was too ill […]
“PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance” book is out
/1 Comment/in Greg's PlanetPostgreSQL, International News, PostgreSQL, United States News /by 2ndQuadrant PressSince I’ve already pushed my book here once on my blog this week, this version will be short and include two chunks of free (as in beer) content for you. My book covering PostgreSQL performance, from versions 8.1 to 9.0, is now available. Downloads of the 468 page e-book text are available immediately from Packt […]
PostgreSQL Performance and PGWest
/1 Comment/in Greg's PlanetPostgreSQL, United States News /by 2ndQuadrant PressIf you’re looking for a heavy dose of information about PostgreSQL performance tuning, you’re going to find the next month very interesting. We at 2ndQuadrant have been working on two books about PostgreSQL 9.0 this year. You can pre-order those right now, and as I’m staring at a home printed copy of my PostgreSQL 9.0 […]