PGWest: Day 0...
... or day 1, depending on how you look at it. Anyway, mostly yesterday, the day before the conference starts. Which is today. Obviously. $DEITY I hate jetlag-induced early mornings, especially when...
View ArticlePGWest: Day 1 and 2
So my blogging of PGWest was a FAIL on the first day, as I never got around to following up my Day 0 post with anything, so with apologies, here's a quick roundup of day 1 and day 2.Day 1 Started with...
View ArticleBooked for PGDay.EU 2010 yet?
If you're planning on attending this year's European PostgreSQL conference (increasingly inaccurately known as PGDay!), then you might want to think about registering and booking your travel and...
View ArticlePGWest: Day 3
PGWest; the final day. It started (for me at least) with Greg Smith giving another excellent talk on scaling PostgreSQL with Hot Standby. This was followed by Robert Hodges and Linas Virbalas talking...
View ArticleJust 2 days left to register for PGDay.EU 2010
Yup, you heard correctly - there are just two (and a bit) days left to register for the annual European PostgreSQL Conference, pgDay.EU 2010, being held in Stuttgart on December 6th and 7th, with a day...
View ArticleDebunking the FUD: PostgreSQL for Microsoft Windows Payload Execution
If you follow Twitter for keywords like "postgres" or "postgresql", you may well have seen a number of tweets over the last day or so regarding a so-called "Payload Execution" exploit in PostgreSQL....
View ArticleTinkering with SQL/MED
One of the cool new features in the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.1 release is support for SQL/MED, or Management of External Data. Essentially what this allows us to do is connect external data sources to...
View ArticleGoogle Summer of Code 2011
As a reminder, Google's Summer of Code 2011 program has started and PostgreSQL is participating! We are looking for students who are interested in hacking on pgAdmin or PostgreSQL all summer. You...
View ArticlePostgreSQL 9.1, meet MySQL
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 the weekend after the kids went away for a week...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Conference Europe: Are you ready?
PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 starts 2 weeks from today in the beautiful city of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. This is the fourth annual conference hosted by PostgreSQL Europe, following on from...
View ArticleStackBuilder Package Updates
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 Mac, you'll probably have...
View ArticleTo upgrade or not to upgrade? That is the question.
On a fairly regular basis the Postgres community hear from users who are complaining of bugs in old versions of Postgres - they'll post a bug report or a request for help on one of the mailing lists...
View ArticleUpdated PostgreSQL Download Infrastructure
Back at the tail end of November, the PostgreSQL sysadmin/web team successfully migrated the PostgreSQL website to a new platform, based on PostgreSQL, Django, Lighttpd, and Varnish, to replace the old...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Developer Meeting 2012
For the last few years I've organised a by-invitation meeting of the most active developers in the PostgreSQL community the day before PGCon's sessions start in Ottawa. This is undoubtedly the best...
View ArticlePostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012 - 3 weeks to go!
There are less than four weeks until this years PostgreSQL Conference Europe, to be held at the Corinthia Hotel, Prague, organised by PostgreSQL Europe. This years event is shaping up to be our best...
View ArticleThe story of pgAdmin
I’m often asked how I first became involved in PostgreSQL, and how the pgAdmin project got started. Much as I’m happy to tell the story over beer, it becomes tedious to do so over email after the first...
View ArticlepgAdmin 4 - The elephant nears the finish line
As you may know, many of us from the pgAdmin team have been hard at work on pgAdmin 4 for some time now. pgAdmin 4 is a complete rewrite of pgAdmin (the fourth, as you may guess), the previous version...
View ArticleSome numbers, oh, and pgAdmin 4 v1.6 was released
It's been far too long since I wrote a blog post (again!), so in a bid to start fixing that, here's an easy one:pgAdmin 4 v1.6 releasedThe pgAdmin Development Team are pleased to announce the release...
View ArticleWhy do we install as root?
A couple of common questions I hear from customers (usually long-time users of a particular database from Redwood) via our guys in the field is “why do we install our software as root?” And “why do we...
View ArticleAvoiding Gmail's confidential mode
So this is one of the very few (maybe the first?) blog entries I've written that aren't directly related to PostgreSQL, however, it does affect how I (and others) may work on the project.Last night I...
View ArticleIndexing Documents for Full Text Search
During a conversation with $BOSS a couple of days ago the topic of the new Full Text Search in MongoDB came up. He (knowing of, but presumably having never worked with FTS in PostgreSQL) suggested I...
View ArticleReverse Proxying to pgAdmin
Reverse proxying requests to a pgAdmin server is becoming more and more popular if posts to the mailing lists are to be taken as an indicative measure; more often than not when using pgAdmin in a...
View Articlesystem_stats extension for PostgreSQL
One of my colleagues at EDB spent some time working on a new extension for PostgreSQL and EDB Postgres Advanced Server as part of a proof of concept that I asked him to look into. I'm pleased to say...
View ArticleTesting pgAdmin
Like any software, pgAdmin has bugs. At the time of writing there are 119 new or in-progress issues in the bug tracker, which is pretty good for a piece of software with so many moving parts, and...
View ArticlemacOS Big Sur upgrade breaking PostgreSQL installations
Update: I, and others have subsequently been unable to reproduce the problem below. If you do run into the issue, please let me know in the comments below.Some of the readers of my blog may be aware...
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