Postgres-XC has been around for a while, it is primarily developed by NTT and EnterpriseDB. It has …
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Cool and Sexy: Open Source PostgreSQL enterprise contenders
PgNext: Cancelled
If you can't see the video, here is the video link.
That video represents why I would put on the conferences. They were …
Remembering our roots
PgNext (PostgreSQL Conference) CFP is still open
URI connection strings, PgNext CFP and other generalities (FKlocks)
We are still actively working on PgNext: The Next PostgreSQL Conference. The folks …
Pearls of Oracle to PostgreSQL conversion
We have been working on a large Oracle 8i conversion to PostgreSQL. Our customers were not concerned with the data conversion: there are tools like ora2pg and oracle foreign data wrapper to accomplish this. They do, however, have a significant number of queries that needs to be converted.
Apparently, most queries from Oracle and PostgreSQL look similar; after all, both are relational database systems, as opposed to Cassandra or …
Another day, another recovery
This is something I have seen many times now: a customer calls us because they lost some data and they want help recovering.
Now you must be wondering: surely if they lost data they can just recover from their last backup, right? Right — they had that. However we know that pg_dump takes a while to run and is stressful on the server, so it's normally run just once …
Decoding infomasks
Come on, admit it: you've always wanted to display the infomask bits from a tuple header in a human-readable manner, but you've never gotten around to it and you still keep htup.h in display while you peek around tuples.
Fortunately, that time is now past! Here's a short and simple recipe to decode the bits for your reading pleasure. Gone is the htup.h cheat sheet. Here's what you need:
…What's next for Postgresql conference?
We were able to fund two features for PostgreSQL, both of which will hopefully hit for 9.2. The first is work to …