During last year's PgCon 2008 I had presented about "Problems with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems".  On slide 14 I talked about the results with IGEN with various think times and had identied the problem of how it is difficult to scale with increasing number of users. The chart show...

What happened to Hot Standby?. Hot Standby (the ability to have read-only replication slaves) has been dropped from PostgreSQL 8.4 and is now scheduled for 8.5. “Making hard decisions to postpone features which aren’t quite ready is how PostgreSQL makes sure that our DBMS is �bulletproof“ an...

This is the 137th edition of Log Buffer, the weekly review of database blogs. Dave Edwards is enjoying a week off, and so as part of my plot to take over the world, I am writing this week’s Log Buffer. First, the fun stuff: Josh Berkus tells us that the American English Translation of the Mang...

Earlier this week, our team launched a client’s project into the public. We began working on it early this year and it was quite an endeavor for our team. The company that we helped launch is AlphaClone, a premier stock research and portfolio simulation service for individuals and professional...

Postmodern is my new favorite database library. And for a couple simple reasons. Written for PostgreSQL. Screw those inferior databases. The ORM/abstraction layer is completely weak and totally optional. I’m not using it. Easy querying? How’s (query "SQL HERE")? Try adding :row, :column ...

i was going to write some reactions to an observation that postgresql has no bug tracker and its discussion last week, but lost the spark and abandoned the post after a few days. but today i ran across a quote from linus torvalds that neatly sums up my thoughts: We’ve always had some pending/unres...

Hi! So this is completely my notes taken from the conference, without my thoughts attached to it. I should definitely post a lot more about this, and how the community can “improve” in time. Just not today. Believe me, sitting in the talk, was highly painful, and I’m wondering wher...

While I met a lot of great people at SCALE  (Michael, Moose, Sharon and a host more) I had generally interesting non-private discussions with (or observations about) the following: Allison Randal - OSCON co-chair and Parrot architect - gave a great presentation on Parrot and an excellent  low-stre...

Day 2 for me started with watching Simon Phipps talk about Sun’s FOSS Philosophy and Strategy. It rained in the morning, so the talk started a little late, and there were hopes of better attendance. Nonetheless, the talk was interesting, and the announcement that there was money in it for FOSS...

... mehrere Datenbanken zu unterstützen, kann man wunderbar in der Drupal Entwicklermailingliste mitverfolgen. Da gibt es Leute, die argumentieren, dass der Support für Postgres zugunsten von MySQL aufgegeben werden soll. Es gibt aber sehr gute Argumente , die gegen eine solche Entscheidung sprech...