I doubt many people can tell you exactly when the first time they read a map was. Mine was memorable though. Circa 3rd grade, I went through the usual battery...
By always having Peter E. in background I am active in SQL Standard (ISO/IEC 9075) committee since 2008. The membership expired after I switched companies. I got the pleasant news...
I already did the long conference entry here, so just a quick update: slides from PGEast are posted and next week I’ll be at the increasingly misnamed MySQL Conference in...
Some members of the Greenplum Community Forum have been asking about how to install on Greenplum CE a very useful “contrib” module available for PostgreSQL. We have prepared a slightly...
This week’s water falling from the skies isn’t turning into snow. And on days when it’s clear, my car is covered with tree pollen. While they means something different to...
We are proud to announce that 2ndQuadrant Deutschland (Germany) officially is registered. As opening bargain … We offer 11 different German PostgreSQL trainings, workshops and crash courses between March and...
Following up on last month’s Tuning Linux for low PostgreSQL Latency, there’s now been a giant pile of testing done on two filesystems, three patches, and two sets of kernel...
Lots of PostegreSQLer also use MySQL. Lots of MySQLer want to use PostgreSQL too. You are MySQLer and want to get more knowledge about PostgreSQL? 2ndQuadrant and me are planning...
One of the challenges when dealing with a new database design is that you don’t know things like how big the tables will end up being until they’re actually populated...
This week’s flame war on the pgsql-performance list once again revolves around the fact that PostgreSQL doesn’t have the traditional hint syntax available in other databases. There are a mix...
