Thursday, December 1, 2011 You might have heard the term "GUC" before, especially on the Postgres email lists. It is documented as an acronym meaning "Grand Unified Configuration", but the...
If you've ever used one of the PostgreSQL installers for v8.2 or above, either the old Windows MSI installer or the newer "one click" installers that also support Linux and...
So having spent the last few months with my head buried deep in a project at work, I finally managed to get back to my previous hacking on SQL/MED at...
Over the years, I've occasionally encountered situations where VACUUM fails to make progress, and not fully understood why that was happening. Recently, I've come to a better understanding of how...
Almost two months ago, I wrote part one of what I indicated would be an occasional series of blog posts comparing the architecture of PostgreSQL to that of MySQL. Here's...
In a recent blog post on Gigaom, Simeon Simeonov argues that virtualization is on the way out, and discusses VMware's move toward platform-as-a-service computing. In a nutshell, his argument is...
