Planet PostgreSQL:
The intro question of the night was "what is your favorite cupcake flavor?" The majority of answers were chocolate with blue frosting and sprinkles, which Dan Colish brought that night. Dan tried to distract us by talking about materialized views while people were munching on cupcakes. He successfully gathered people's a (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
If you haven’t seen it, Josh Berkus has a very concise way to look at the confusing mess that is database “clustering” from the point of view of three distinct types of users: transactional, analytic, and online. I think that using this kind of distinction could help keep discussions clear — I’ve seen a lot of conversations (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
The PostgreSQL community and the database industry have a bewildering profusion of clustering product and projects, utilizing a plethora of technologies and optimized for a diversity of different requirements. Clusters are single-master, multi-master, middleware, database engine, application-based, statement-based, group c (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
For the last several years, PostgreSQL has suffered from having numerous, incomplete, unpolished, and poorly-publicized clustering and replication tools. It's time to fix that. (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
Ever been around a group of people discussing some technology and heard Cool-Whip phrases like this?It’s not about MySQL versus PostgreSQL, it’s about using the right tool for the job.Or how about this one?You need to take the important factors into account before you decide whether [hot new fad] or [trusty old solution] is (Read More)
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We held a PostgreSQL cluster developer meeting on Thursday, November 19, 2009 in Tokyo. About 25 people were in attendance, and seven projects presented the status of their projects. Projects represented included pgCluster, PostgresForest, Postgres-R, Streaming Replication (slated to be included in core for version 8.5), P (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
Shout out to Mark Long and Lacey Powers for showing up to support a Pg dude in a foreign land. Preceding my talk on PostgreSQL Performance, Adam Lowry gave and interesting intro to a database connection pooling module he wrote for Django. Essentially they bolted SQLAlchemy's pooler into Django. He then gave some metrics, sh (Read More)
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JD wrote:So what is going on and what has happened over the last year?First and foremost, I should mention that PgUS is about to have an election for 3 board seats. The current nominees are:Michael BrewerJoshua DrakeKevin KempterBruce MomjianGreg SmithYou need to be a Professional or Student Member to vote. In order to upda (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
I have the unexpected pleasure of speaking at PDXDjango tonight on PostgreSQL performance. Their meetings are 90 minutes with about 60 minutes (in theory) for the main speaker. The talk I am giving is a quick introduction to PostgreSQL Performance. The description I gave to the group was: I am a Django developer not a DBA. (Read More)
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from Google Reader:
This is just a quick start for a brainstorming of what we all hate in todays CMS (I am including portal/community software here as well and I guess most also applies to web shops) software out there. I have written a very small CMS application myself ages ago so I do not have experience in what its really like writing and m (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
One full week has passed since the end of PG Day Europe 2009 and yet it's still hard to describe the intensity of these 2 days of meeting.Everything went so fast ! Here's some figures to : 25 talks, 32 speakers, 200 PostgreSQL fanboys and fangirls...I had the chance to be part of the organization, so here's a bunch of les (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
PrefaceNovember, 4th. Release Candidate 1 of Database Designer for PostgreSQL 1.2.9 become available. Among three changes comparing to the last beta there is the one which attracts attention — “Execute Script In Single Transaction (Alt + F9)” functionality added. World community shocked.“What means added? We thought it alwa (Read More)
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Thanks to everyone who attended OpenSQLCamp this past weekend in Portland, OR! More than 100 people participated – developers, DBAs and hobbyists from all over the world. Database developers participated from PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Drizzle, TokuDB, LucidDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB and many more. The great thing a (Read More)
Planet PostgreSQL:
Where: FreeGeek
When: 7pm 19 Nov, 2009
Dan Colish will be talking about materialized views. And bringing cupcakes. And he'll be talking about relational algebra, and we know what that means. :D Afterwards, we will be crashing the pdx.pm hackathon at the Lucky Lab, and stealing their beer.
See you there!
gabrielle. (Read More)