I maintain a number of project whose purpose in life is to make testing portions of PostgreSQL easier. All of these got a decent upgrade over this last week. stream-scaling...
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...
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...
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...
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...
2ndQuadrant will be delivering two courses on PostgreSQL in Australia. The location will be the prestigious Rialto Towers, one of the greatest attractions in Melbourne, right in the heart of...
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...
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...
Since I’ve already pushed my book here once on my blog this week, this version will be short and include two chunks of free (as in beer) content for you...
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...