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Read our interview with Fabrice Vaillant who will talk about going From a Legacy Relational DB to an Event Queue.

This article gives a step by step guide to utilizing Machine Learning capabilities with 2UDA. In this article, we’ll use example of Animals to predict whether they are Mammals, Birds, Fish or Insects. Software versions We’re going to use 2UDA version 11.6-1 to implement the Machine Learning model. This version 11.6-1 combines: PostgreSQL 11.6 Orange […]

Every year, on the second Wednesday of November, Esri (“the Microsoft of GIS”) promotes a day of celebration, “GIS Day” in which the members of our community unite to tell the world about the wonders of cartography and spatial data and incidentally use their software a lot in the process.

Read our interview with Daniel Vérité who will talk about Staying Safe from ACID Rains.

Version 4.0 of Pgpool-II added some very exciting security and authentication features to make it more relevant and useful for enterprise environments. It adds support for providing encrypted passwords in pool_passwd and configuration files and lets the administrators chose different authentication methods to be used for the Client<–>Pgpool-II and Pgpool-II<–>PostgreSQL authentications.

Last time we imported OpenStreetMap datasets from Iceland to PostGIS.
To quickly visualize our results, we will now use QGIS to render our datasets and generate some nice maps on the client.

Let’s start with our prerequisites:

Read our interview with Christophe Pettus who will talk about Database Disasters and How to Find Them.

A PostgreSQL procedural language handler needs to look up the body of the user defined function or stored procedure for the code to execute.  Remember that the C function executed to handle PL/Julia user defined functions and stored procedures is defined in the SQL file. Thus the pljulia_call_handler() function needs to be updated to retrieve […]

A very non-scientific comparison about the two database engines.

The lock is an essential part of a database system. In PostgreSQL, there are various locks, such as table lock, row lock, page lock, transaction lock, advisory lock, etc. Some of these locks are automatically added to complete the database functions during the operation of the database system, and some are manually added for the elements in PostgreSQL through some SQL commands. This blog explores the locks in PostgreSQL.

This website will publish interviews with people who make the PostgreSQL Project what it is today.

PostgreSQL Conference Germany 2020 in Stuttgart, Germany, on May 15th is now open for registrations.

The Call for Papers is already closed, and we are working with the last speakers to confirm their talks, and we will have a full schedule published soon.

There are still a few "EARLYBIRD" tickets available, until end of February.

See you in Stuttgart!

If you are using Azure PostgreSQL and have upgraded your client side libpq to version 12 (which can happen automatically for example if you use the PostgreSQL apt repositories), you may see connection attempts fail with symptoms like:

The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.0.1.

Best served with PostgreSQL 12.2, GEOS 3.8.0, SFCGAL 1.3.7, GDAL 3.0.4, PROJ 6.3.1, protobuf-c 1.3.3, json-c 0.13.1.

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This blog post is about the journey of parallelism in PostgreSQL till now and what is in store for the future.  Since PostgreSQL 9.6 where the first feature of parallel query has arrived, each release improves it.  Below is a brief overview of the parallel query features added in each release.

PG9.6 has added Parallel execution of sequential scans, joins, and aggregates.

The PostgreSQL caching system has always been a bit of a miracle to many people and many have asked me during consulting or training sessions: How can I figure out what the PostgreSQL I/O cache really contains? What is in shared buffers and how can one figure out? This post will answer this kind of question and we will dive into the PostgreSQL cache.

Creating a simple sample database

Before we can inspect shared buffers we have to create a little database. Without data the stuff we are going to do is not too useful:

Recently, on irc, there were couple of cases where someone wanted to use uuid as datatype for their primary key. I opposed, and tried to explain, but IRC doesn't really allow for longer texts, so figured I'll write a blogpost. First problem – UUID values are completely opaque. That means – uuids generated for table … Continue reading "Why I’m not fan of uuid datatype"

Couple of days ago RhodiumToad reported, on irc, a bug in explain.depesz.com. Specifically – if explain was done using JSON/XML/YAML formats, and node type was Aggregate, the site didn't extract full info. In text explains the node type is one of: Aggregate HashAggregate GroupAggregate But in non-text formats, type of Aggregate was ignored. As of … Continue reading "Fix for displaying aggregates on explain.depesz.com"

Some time ago I wrote blogpost which showed how to list tables that should be autovacuumed or autoanalyzed. Query in there had one important problem – it didn't take into account per-table settings.

On 12nd of February 2020, Michael Paquier committed patch: Add %x to default PROMPT1 and PROMPT2 in psql   %d can be used to track if the current connection is in a transaction block or not, and adding it by default to the prompt has the advantage to not need a modification of .psqlrc, something … Continue reading "Waiting for PostgreSQL 13 – Add %x to default PROMPT1 and PROMPT2 in psql"