PG Phriday: Smooth Operator

One of the handy things Oracle does with dates is allow manipulation with standard arithmetic. Want tomorrow's date? Add one. Want a week ago? Subtract seven. Postgres does something close...
July 28, 2017

Barman 2.2 and the magic of parallel copy

Barman 2.2 introduces support for parallel copy, by improving performance of both backup and recovery operations in your PostgreSQL disaster recovery solution. Barman is a piece of software that has...
July 18, 2017

PG Phriday: Crazy Correlated Column Crusade

For a long time, the Postgres query planner has sported a huge blinking neon blind-spot that frustrated and enraged DBAs throughout the universe to a level just shy of murderous...
July 14, 2017

News and Roadmap for BDR (Multi-master PostgreSQL)

Postgres-BDR is an open source project from 2ndQuadrant that provides multi-master features for PostgreSQL. We have pursued a joint strategy of providing both working code available now and also submitting...
July 12, 2017

News and Roadmap from Postgres-XL 10

We expect Postgres-XL 10 to be released in the next few months, with the new features of partitioning and logical replication. You’ll be able to load Postgres-XL directly from PostgreSQL...
July 05, 2017

PG Phriday: Uptown Func

One of the coolest things about Postgres functions is that they can return rows as if they were a table. Not only is it possible, but creating a set-returning function...
June 30, 2017

PG Phriday: Postgres on Tap

Testing within the context of a database can sometimes seem a bit overwhelming. Not only is it necessary to create a reasonable set of test data to bootstrap multiple tables...
June 16, 2017

Announcing Release 5 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client

Release 5 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm Client has been released and can be downloaded from http://buildfarm.postgresql.org/downloads/releases/build-farm-5.tgz In a similar move to PostgreSQL version numbering, with this release we move to...
June 13, 2017

PostgreSQL Popularity Continues to Grow!

Some years ago, I prophesized that PostgreSQL would win in the end, and that we would be able to tell because there would be “Microsoft PostgreSQL”. I am happy to...
June 13, 2017