Community

Community Growing Postgres User Groups
Community Email Snippets: Entertaining Links
Community Email Snippets: Community Management
Community Email Snippets: Reliability
Community Email Snippets: Philosophy
Community Email Snippets: SQL Craziness
Community Email Snippets: Self-deprecation
Community A Postgres Song?
Community Do We Have a Plan?
Community Why People Contribute to Postgres and Open Source
Community Development Process Article
Community The Pain of Software Development
Community User Testimonial Video at PG East
Community Don't Confuse Companies with Community
Community Growing Patch Committers
Community Community Communication
Community Development Developments
Community Postgres Globe

Conference

Conference Upcoming Events
Conference Report from PGDay Austin
Conference Report from Montreal's ConFoo Conference
Conference Staying Close to Home
Conference The USA Is Planning a Triple Play
Conference The Travel Faucet
Conference I'm Back
Conference The Marathon Begins
Conference The Postgres Fall Conference Lineup
Conference Need a Conference Welcome Video?
Conference Yeah, I'm at MySQLCon
Conference A Conference A Month
Conference PgEast at the Hotel Pennsylvania
Conference Report from SCALE
Conference An Event Every Month
Conference Conference Report
Conference PG West Selectivity Talk
Conference Back from Moscow
Conference Baltimore, Bolivia, Boston, Moscow, San Francisco
Conference Speaking in New York City
Conference SURGE Conference
Conference OSCON 2010 Report
Conference Speaking in New York City
Conference PG East: Hotel
Conference PG East: What to Expect
Conference More Philadelphia Action
Conference Postgres Is Hot In Philadelphia
Conference Reflections on PGCon
Conference The Great Netbook Giveaway Redux
Conference OpenSQL Camp Report
Conference Back From PG West
Conference Conference Schedule Resumed
Conference Event Attendance Cancellations
Conference Report from Brasilia
Conference Linuxworld Wrapup, Swag
Conference OSCON Wrapup
Conference OSCON Report
Conference Attending OSCON
Conference Upcoming Presentations
Conference Traveling Every Month
Conference PGCon Impressions
Conference Attending FOSDEM in Brussels

Documentation

Documentation The Importance of High-Quality Documentation
Documentation Postgres Documentation
Documentation Postgres 9.1 Draft Release Notes
Documentation Pretty Docs
Documentation 9.0 Release Notes Ready
Documentation 9.0 Release Notes Creation
Documentation Seeking Documentation Proofreading Assistance
Documentation 8.4 Release Notes
Documentation Working on 8.4 Release Notes
Documentation Reading Through the Manual

News

News Parallel Query Report from the PGCon Developer Meeting
News Postgres 9.2 Draft Release Notes Published
News Starting on 9.2 Release Notes
News The New Postgres Era
News Postgres Getting Increased Attention
News New Server
News Coming to Boston
News Intel Pushes Out Firmware Update For 320 Series SSDs
News No RSVPs, No Party
News EnterpriseDB Looking for Beta Testers
News Postgres Now the Default Database for Mac OS X Server
News No Postgres Booth at OSCon
News Postgres Pool Party
News MVCC Webcast this Wednesday
News Postgres 9.1 in the News
News Important Postgres 9.1 Features
News Postgres 9.1 Is Coming
News Security Meeting in Maryland
News Completed User Testimonial Videos from PG East
News One Week to the Postgres Pool Party
News Postgres Coming to the International Space Station
News PostgreSQL 9.0 Illustrated
News Another Drexel University Course
News Postgres Pool Party
News Creeping to Beta
News 9.0 Status Report
News Postgres University Course Material
News Wanted: New Project Slogan
News Oops, Confusing Press Release
News Postgres 9.0 Coming
News European Union Recognizes PostgreSQL
News Security Enhanced Postgres
News New Security Talk
News School Is Out
News JPUG Tenth Anniversary
News Award
News Busy Week
News Partial Progress in Proofreading the Postgres Manual
News Professor Momjian
News Back to Email
News Release Date Poll
News My Goals for the Next Two Months
News Postgres 8.4 Beta1
News Oracle to Buy Sun
News Philadelphia Tour After PG East
News Online Training
News Query Source Code Flow Diagram Completed
News Query Source Code Flow
News Preparation for 8.4, Travel
News Final Feature Decisions for 8.4
News Security-Enhanced Postgres
News Webcast Series
News Slogging Toward 8.4
News Postgres News Activity
News Webcasts
News Approaching 8.4 Beta
News Spacewalk to Postgres
News Less Travel
News Attending OpenSQL Camp
News Back to Work
News TODO TO-Gone
News OSCON Grand Prize
News Appointed to PgUS Board
News Russian Chat Session
News pgpool PG Pool Party
News Master/Slave Replication
News The Photo Reply
News Commit Fest Done
News PGCon Developer's Meeting
News Porting from Oracle to Postgres
News May Commit-Fest Going Well
News First 8.4 Commit-Fest Done
News First Commit-Fest
News Postgres 8.4 Development Started
News Back From London
News 8.3RC2 Needed
News Start

Performance

Performance The Effectiveness of effective_cache_size
Performance Measuring Free Memory and Kernel Cache Size on Linux
Performance Caching Levels
Performance Sorting Performance Improvement for Postgres 9.2
Performance Let's See work_mem
Performance Scalability What?
Performance Parallelism Is Coming
Performance Scalability Improvements Are Coming
Performance What Every Data Programmer Needs to Know about Disks
Performance Benchmark Comparison

Pg upgrade

Pg upgrade Pg_Upgrade and Optimizer Statistics
Pg upgrade Pg_Upgrade Improvements Coming in Postgres 9.2
Pg upgrade Bug Fix for Pg_Upgrade from Postgres 8.3
Pg upgrade Pg_Upgrade Will Always Be a Hack
Pg upgrade Changes to Pg_Upgrade In Postgres 9.1
Pg upgrade Pg_Upgrade Fix Now Released in Postgres 9.0.4
Pg upgrade Critical Fix for Pg_upgrade/Pg_migrator Users
Pg upgrade Pg_Migrator Included in Postgres 9.0, Renamed to Pg_Upgrade
Pg upgrade Pg_Migrator Done for 8.4, New Video
Pg upgrade Pg_Migrator 8.4.1 Released
Pg upgrade Setback for Pg_Migrator
Pg upgrade Pg_Migrator 8.4 Final Released Last Week
Pg upgrade Pg_Migrator Release Candidate 1
Pg upgrade Challenges of Pg_Migrator
Pg upgrade Pg_Migrator Beta 1 Released
Pg upgrade PG_Migrator Progress
Pg upgrade PG_Migrator Alpha Released
Pg upgrade PG_Migrator Status

Presentation

Presentation CTE Presentation at ConFoo; Slides Now Online
Presentation Part 1 of Virtualizing Postgres Now Online
Presentation Presentations Updated
Presentation Unlocking the Postgres Lock Manager Slides Now Online
Presentation New Optimizer Presentation Now Online
Presentation Video Presentation from Brazil Now Online
Presentation MySQLCon Keynote Video Now Online
Presentation MVCC Unmasked Now Online
Presentation Two New Presentations
Presentation Updated Presentation: The Magic of Hot Streaming Replication
Presentation PG East: Slides
Presentation Presentation License

Thoughts

Thoughts Postgres Drinking Game
Thoughts Software Patents: Why the Status Quo Continues?
Thoughts Open Source Leadership
Thoughts NoSQL Databases as the New Scripting Language
Thoughts Increasing Database Reliability
Thoughts The Most Important Postgres CPU Instruction
Thoughts More Lessons From My Server Migration
Thoughts A Cautionary Lesson from Perl 6
Thoughts Release Size Analysis
Thoughts One Million Strong
Thoughts Radical But Useful Source Code Reformatting
Thoughts Postgres Wisdom
Thoughts Why Postgres Switched To Git
Thoughts Mysql Is a Database Video
Thoughts Postgres 9.0 Feedback on Slashdot
Thoughts Mirror, Mirror On The Wall, Which Is The Best Open Source DB Of Them All?
Thoughts Reliability Humor
Thoughts Form Follows Failure
Thoughts ORMs and Their Discontents
Thoughts Financial Disincentive
Thoughts Learning from NoSQL
Thoughts Settling for NoSQL
Thoughts MVCC For Programming Languages
Thoughts Why Blog?
Thoughts Python Driver Confusion
Thoughts Removal of Personal Copyrights
Thoughts Caring for Your (PG) Introvert
Thoughts Threats to Postgres
Thoughts The Next Postgres Adoption Wave
Thoughts The International MySQL Soap Opera
Thoughts Elephant Roads: PostgreSQL Patches and Variants
Thoughts Coding Simplicity
Thoughts Reaching Out to Middleware Users
Thoughts Professionalism at PGCon
Thoughts Old School
Thoughts What Have We Forgotten About Growing?
Thoughts Pet Peeves
Thoughts Quixotic?
Thoughts The Optimal Number of Database Performance Settings
Thoughts Processing Email
Thoughts Reading Email During Trips
Thoughts Postgres Email Activity
Thoughts Perl For Development Scripts
Thoughts Elephants Can Count Too
Thoughts The Kitchen Sink Has Arrived?
Thoughts What Do You Do?
Thoughts The MySQL Soap Opera
Thoughts Database House Of Cards
Thoughts Postgres Development Visualized
Thoughts Postgres Is Hot
Thoughts Coverity Security Scan
Thoughts Big Joke

Tip

Tip Template1 Me!
Tip Why Use Multiple Schemas?
Tip Take a Dip in the Pooler
Tip When to Use Multiple Clusters, Databases, or Schemas?
Tip Avoiding Logical Dump Pitfalls
Tip Multiple Databases and Global Objects
Tip Selecting All Columns and TOAST
Tip Don't Ignore shared_preload_libraries
Tip Three Ways to Install Postgres
Tip Why You Should Care About Libpq
Tip Limiting Postgres Connections
Tip Virtualizing Postgres
Tip Postgres Memory Surprises
Tip Revisiting Memory Reporting
Tip Toast Queries
Tip Toast-y Goodness
Tip What Is a GUC Variable?
Tip External Monitoring Tools
Tip Surrogate Keys Can Become Natural Keys
Tip Reliable Writes
Tip Why Is standard_conforming_strings Enabled in Postgres 9.1?
Tip Finding Xmax
Tip Database Reliability
Tip Postgres on Amazon's EC2
Tip New Replication Option
Tip VM Me
Tip SSDs For Your Database?
Tip Where Did My Error Come From?
Tip Lists and Recursion and Trees (Oh, my!)
Tip Ccache Usage