Telling Your Users to Go Fork Themselves

As the PostgreSQL Elephant continues its march toward yet another release, I’ve been thinking quite a bit about the role users of software should have in its user interface design...
January 16, 2011

Easier PostgreSQL 9.0 clusters with repmgr

When PostgreSQL 9.0 shipped a few months ago, it included several new replication features. It’s obvious that you can use these features to build clusters of servers for both high...
January 11, 2011

100% PostgreSQL again

The time of being the PostgreSQL girl working for MySQL at Oracle is over now. Simon Riggs from 2ndQuadrant offered me a job that I couldn’t resist. So I closed...
January 03, 2011

pgChess code published

I have been lucky enough to be invited at the marvellous PGDay.eu 2012 conference in Stuttgart, which ended just yesterday. The topic of the first of my two talks has...
December 08, 2010

PostgreSQL CommitFest #3 for 9.1 needs you!

PostgreSQL development is now done with periodic pauses to review and commit patches that have been submitted, called Commit Fests. The patches themselves are stored on a custom web app...
November 16, 2010

PG West talks

My tour this week of the PostgreSQL West conference has taught me that you can deliver three talks in two days, or you can have fun seeing other people’s talks...
November 05, 2010

PostgreSQL Performance and PGWest

If you’re looking for a heavy dose of information about PostgreSQL performance tuning, you’re going to find the next month very interesting. We at 2ndQuadrant have been working on two...
October 18, 2010