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SAML stands for Security Assertion Markup Language. It's an XML-based markup language and also an open security protocol standard. The most important feature of this protocol is Web Browser Single Sign-On (SSO.) SSO allows users to login once and never be prompted for login/password later.
In this post we'll describe how to add SAML support to existing web application with the bare minimum of modifications to the …
Time line:
May 25th: Talk submission opens
July 31st: …
For those that are curious (and which for some reason don't follow the #pgcon tag at twitter), here's a picture of the attendees of Developer's Meeting.
Back row, from left to right: Robert Haas, Selena Deckelmann, Marko Kreen, KaiGai Kohei, Stephen Frost, Magnus Hagander , Robert Treat, Tom Lane, Heikki Linnakangas, Mark Wong, Josh Berkus, Kevin Grittner, Dimitri Fontaine, Koichi Suzuki, Andrew Dunstan, Fujii Masao, Jeff Davis, Greg Smith, Tatsuo …
The website is not quite updated yet …
Some time ago, a customer came to us with a strange vacuuming problem. Their regular vacuum job would die with a message such as this one:
vacuumdb: vacuuming of database "clint_app" failed: ERROR: failed to re-find parent key in index "work_items_pkey" for deletion target page 6100
Eventually, it turned out that their storage firmware had some glitch that caused things to go wrong in random ways, and corruption in various …
I got curious about a bloat problem on a customer's system today. The statistics as calculated by normal tools/queries say that one of the tables is 2x bloated. Another table is 6x bloated. And so on. For some reason I wanted to see what it looked like in a graphical way, so I threw together this simple query:
select s, coalesce(count, 0)
from (select block, count(*)
from (select split_part(tid, ',', …
I was speaking with an individual from 10Gen (#PgEast Gold Sponsor and creator …
One of our customers who is using Ruby on Rails with the PostgreSQL database backend notified us of a long-standing issue with the database driver: Lighthouse ticket #3721
The driver is doing something that at first glance looks like a smart thing, but apparently it's not that smart. What it does is it tries to detect the bit-string notation (binary vs. hexadecimal) based on the string content passed to it. …