A vaguely off-topic tale of frustration and nail biting: I hate flying!
Well, in theory I love it. It's just become a nightmare over the last few trips.In March there was PG East in Philadelphia. And the BA cabin crew decided to go on strike. Cue purchase of a (refundable)...
View ArticleElected to the PostgreSQL Europe Board
Magnus posted the results of the PostgreSQL Europe board elections yesterday, and I'm happy to have be one of the successful candidates, along with Guillaume Lelarge and Andreas Scherbaum. Everyone...
View ArticlePGCon 2010 summary
I arrived home from PGCon 2010 yesterday. As always the conference was held in Ottawa, Canada to which many of the PostgreSQL developers now make an annual pilgrimage.We started on Wednesday with the...
View ArticleComparing VoltDB to Postgres
I've been asked a few times recently for my opinion on VoltDB, the new database server architected by the 'father' of Postgres, Dr Michael Stonebraker so rather than repeating myself over and over...
View ArticleSQL Injection attacks
There was another malicious attack targeting websites running Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) recently. I would imagine that the vast majority of website developers and DBAs are aware of...
View ArticlePostgres Testimonials
Those of you who attended PG East in Philadelphia earlier this year may recall that we were recording user testimonials on video. Well, we've finally got a bunch of those edited and ready for public...
View ArticlePostgres, Passwords and Installers
By far the most common issues we see reported with the "one-click" PostgreSQL installers that we build here at EnterpriseDB are password related. In this post I'll explain what the passwords are, why...
View ArticleCleaning up the Oracle mess
I've been caught off-guard by the number of newsstories that have been posted about Oracle turning off their Solaris boxes that participated in the PostgreSQL Buildfarm and the fact that I've been...
View ArticlePGDay.EU 2010 Call for Papers ending soon!
This years European PostgreSQL Conference is due to be held on the 6 - 8th December 2010 in Stuttgart Germany. Following on from last years extremely successful event in Paris, we hope to make the show...
View ArticlePGDay Europe 2010 schedule announced
I'm pleased to be able to say that the schedule for this year's PGDay Europe conference in Stuttgart, Germany on the 6th - 8th December 2010 is now available.We have a bumper crop of talks this year,...
View ArticlePGWest: 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...
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