116 items tagged “postgresql”
2008
Persistent Django on Amazon EC2 and EBS—the easy way. Useful tutorial on getting Django up and running on EC2 with EBS for a persistent PostgreSQL database. # 21st August 2008, 9:32 pm
Django Unit Tests and Transactions. If you’re using a transactional database engine (MySQL with InnoDB, Postgres or SQLite) you can speed things up by running each of your unit tests inside a transaction and rolling back in tearDown(). # 7th July 2008, 2:14 pm
Historically the project policy has been to avoid putting replication into core PostgreSQL, so as to leave room for development of competing solutions [...] However, it is becoming clear that this policy is hindering acceptance of PostgreSQL to too great an extent, compared to the benefit it offers to the add-on replication projects. Users who might consider PostgreSQL are choosing other database systems because our existing replication options are too complex to install and use for simple cases.
— Tom Lane # 7th July 2008, 2:08 pm
Sun To Acquire MySQL. Sun also employ Josh Berkus, one of the lead developers of PostgreSQL. # 16th January 2008, 1:55 pm
2007
PostgreSQL 8.3 beta 4 release notes. In addition to the huge speed improvements, 8.3 adds support for XML, UUID and ENUM data types and brings full text (tsearch2) in to the core database engine. # 12th December 2007, 12:43 am
PostgreSQL 8.3 vs. 8.2—a simple benchmark. Stefan Kaltenbrunner reports a 2.2x speed increase for PostgreSQL 8.3 compared to 8.2 for a relatively simple benchmark. # 12th December 2007, 12:42 am
ThingDB. Another extensible key/value pair data store, constructed for the Open Library based on Aaron Swartz’s Infogami technology. # 17th July 2007, 10:21 am
PostgreSQL for Mac (via) Looks like a great way of getting PostgreSQL up and running on a Mac. # 10th July 2007, 8:24 am
Rails and Scaling with Multiple Databases. Ryan Tomayko explains how his team spreads a high traffic Rails application across five separate PostgreSQL databases by giving each client their own schema—similar to how WordPress MU scales. # 14th April 2007, 2:32 am
pg8000 v1.02. The pure Python PostgreSQL library now supports DB-API 2.0 (and SSL too). That didn’t take long! # 13th March 2007, 9:18 pm
pg8000 (via) A pure-Python interface to PostgreSQL, using the PostgreSQL network protocol directly. Doesn’t (yet) support DB-API 2.0, but that’s promised in a future release. # 9th March 2007, 7:35 pm
2006
DHS Funding Open Source Security. Paying for “source code analysis technology” coverage of Linux, Apache, PostgreSQL and more. # 17th January 2006, 10:18 pm
2005
Performance Tuning PostgreSQL (via) Anything Frank has to say about PostgreSQL is well worth listening to. # 13th December 2005, 8:11 am
Providing Application Access to SQL Data in Apple Remote Desktop 2 (via) Interesting—Apple’s Remote Desktop 2 runs off a PostgreSQL database. # 3rd March 2005, 10:28 am
PostgreSQL: What’s New in 8.0. Win32 server, savepoints, tablespaces, plperl and more. # 19th January 2005, 4:11 pm
2004
PostgreSQL startup items for MacOS X (via) Thank you! I’ve been wanting this for months. # 8th September 2004, 6:06 pm
Implementing Full Text Indexing with PostgreSQL (via) TSearch2 tutorial. # 13th August 2004, 3:44 pm
PostgreSQL 8.0.0 Officially Goes Beta (via) New features include win32 support, point-in-time recovery. # 10th August 2004, 6:17 pm
Tablespaces (via) Interesting new feature in PostgreSQL 7.5. # 9th July 2004, 5:58 am
PostgreSQL Hardware Performance Tuning. For future reference. # 22nd April 2004, 6:33 pm
Fixing sequence problems in PostgreSQL
This one’s mainly for my own future reference. The following error message in PostgreSQL:
[... 77 words]Finding open locks on Postgresql. May come in useful in the future. # 26th February 2004, 2:33 am
2003
PostgreSQL 7.4
Last week’s release of PostgreSQL 7.4 made a great open source project even better—it even managed to impress hard-core MySQL advocate Jeremy Zawodny. The detailed release notes show that most of the improvements were with regards to performance, but the thing that really caught my eye was tsearch2, the new full text indexing suite. A bit of digging brought up the CVS tree for the new module, which in turn lead me to this tutorial style overview of its capabilities.
[... 132 words]PostgreSQL Performance Optimisation
Via the pgsql-performance mailing list, a great guide to Tuning PostgreSQL for performance, accompanied by a huge table of annotated configuration options.
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PostgreSQL 7.3
PostgreSQL Global Development Group Announces Version 7.3. I still haven’t had a play with PostgreSQL yet but everything I’ve heard has been positive. I’m sure PostgreSQL’s popularity would skyrocket if they made a Windows binary available—the ability to test scripts written in PHP and MySQL on a Windows desktop PC is the main reason I have stuck with MySQL rather than exploring PostgreSQL.
[... 66 words]Linux Gazette Python articles
Linux Gazette has a couple of interesting Python articles at the moment. Dealing with User Input in Python is a beginners guide to validating user input, while Pl/Python and Cursors in Pl/Pgsql for PostgreSQL explains how Python can be used to write stored procedures in PostgreSQL.
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