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When I began at Command Prompt, Java was coffee, Python was a snake, and a Ruby was best used on the color of glittery slippers. If you would have asked me two and a half years ago what "PostgreSQL" does, I would have asked you what language you were speaking.
A year later, I took my first sales call with out Joshua Drake (jd, @linuxhiker). I was shaking in …
pg_basebackup was introduced in Postgres 9.1 as a simple way to copy the data directory of a running database cluster. This was a great addition to a small group of PostgreSQL Client Applications.
The pg_basebackup approach differs from the standard pg_start_backup(), rsync (or other file system copy), pg_stop_backup() approach in that it uses the replication protocol over a standard Postgres connection to make the base backup. A few …
before upgrade to 3.9
08:35:01 AM CPU %user %nice %system %iowait …
"Would it be necessary to modify the wire protocol to support multiple query/result-set combinations per server round-trip? That is, to be able to send a hundred different queries (each with a different number and type of columns in the result set) and receive a hundred different results all in a single network round-trip? That …
The wire protocol is the language spoken between a client and the server of postgresql. The majority of programming languages out there do not implement their own version of the protocol instead opting to bind to the C library libpq. There …