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Now that summer is over and we have officially decided never to schedule anything in August again, we need to share a bunch of upcoming community goodness!
Never lose sight of the goal
Overview
Usually we want to test before deploying changes to a production Postgresql cluster. Commonly the test itself is executed in a context that is not very similar to the production environment. How can you run a test that is realistic so there are no horrible surprises when you deploy on the production system? Read on! This document describes a procedure where changes can be tested on a system that …
If you are looking for all the skinny on Postgres v10, I have just the meetup for you. I will be giving my presentation: Postgres V10: An Amplified version of PostgreSQL tonight at a joint meeting of Vancouver Developers Network and Vancouver Postgres Meetup. Be there or be square.
In this presentation I go over all the major features in Postgres v10 including but not limited to:
After much deliberation with the CMD community team we have launched the Denver Postgres User Group! We hope that our community in Denver, Boulder, and Colorado Springs will join us at upcoming events and submit content. It has been a long time since we have had an active Denver group and Denver is a hot bed for Postgres external development. Our first meeting will be announced soon and should …
That is how this all started. A gentleman tweeted about a Postgres limitation that Oracle has not had since at least since Oracle 7.3.
As you can see in the tweet, Postgres by default will not defer a PRIMARY KEY check. Without the check being deferred the following will not work:
postgres=# select * from demo; id ---- 1 2 (2 rows) postgres=# …
For most workloads the Postgres Autovacuum daemon works just fine. You go about your day with 3 workers that wake up once a minute to make sure that everything is nice and tidy. If things are dirty enough (around 10%) then one of the workers gets in gear and cleans things up. Unfortunately, if you have an inverted load from the norm, Autovacuum may not be able to keep up …
A recent poll was conducted @amplifypostgres to determine where the Postgres community should have its interactive communication. Options included were Google Hangouts, Slack, Reddit or “Other”.
The results were not surprising, with Google Hangouts beating Slack with 157 votes cast. There were also notable mentions of IRC, and Gitter. A couple of long time Postgresql.Org members asked the inevitable, “What is wrong with IRC?” Of course there is nothing wrong with …
You may ask yourself, how did I get here?
The journey to this place in my professional career as the newly hired Director of Business Development for Command Prompt, Inc. is a long and winding one, and so i'd like to share a couple of stories to enlighten curious folks:
“Why Postgres?!”
Last September the fledgling consulting firm that I was handling sales and business development for was shuttering, and …
You should always be careful of what you ask for. A couple of months ago while I was feeling particularly brave, I submitted to present at the DataLayer Conference. The next thing I knew, I was speaking at the DataLayer Conference. The conference takes place in Austin on May 17th. Conferences like this one are an awesome channel for PostgreSQL advocacy. Of course I am partial to PgConf US …
We use Redmine here at CMD for all our project management needs. In fact, this Open Source solution is at the heart of our day-to-day operations. Over the time, we have made a number of contiributions to the project and extended, or modified, Redmine's behavior to suit our needs.
For example, one of the things we did was integrate Zabbix-based PostgreSQL monitoring system with Redmine. This allows us to keep track of …