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This has been cooking for a while now, and now it's time to open it up: July 31st, 2012 was my last day with Command Prompt, Inc.
I joined Command Prompt in October 2005. Back then I wasn't a very prolific blogger, it seems, because it took me six months to get this fact out. I haven't improved much since then, even though boss Josh Drake kept telling me …
I don't usually post rants here, but this one might be actually helpful to others, so let's make an exception. It will be related to installing PostgreSQL from distro-specific packages. I usually prefer setting PostgreSQL from sources, unlike the majority of users; nevertheless, I'm familiar with how popular distros, like Debian or Fedora, manage their PostgreSQL layouts. Or so I thought until today.
My task was simple: install PostgreSQL instance …
WAL (acronym for the Write Ahead Log) is the mechanism that Postgres uses to implement durability (the D in ACID) of data changes in the face of a system crash. WAL is also a critical component for Postgres to provide binary replication as well as online binary backups.
Recently we had a customer who was running PostgreSQL 8.2 on a 32 cores system with 64GB of memory. They were deploying this server in addition to the already running one with 24 total cores and 32GB of memory. PostgreSQL configuration has been adjusted for extra resources, the database has been partitioned roughly in half between the 2 servers and the queries running against both servers were similar.
Suprisingly, when …
This is the second part in a series of blog posts describing PostgreSQL analogs of common Oracle queries
One of the most intricate Oracle specific constructions is "START WITH ... CONNECT BY". According to Oracle's documentation, the syntax is: SELECT [query] [START WITH initial_condition] CONNECT BY [nocycle] condition. This statement is commonly used to traverse hierarchical data in the parent-child order. It's easier to illustrate how it works with …
Postgres-XC has been around for a while, it is primarily developed by NTT and EnterpriseDB. It has …
That video represents why I would put on the conferences. They were fun. We had …