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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 …
Last week I spoke at the Bellingham Young Professional Group on starting and running a business. It was a well attended presentation. I was nervous at first because although I do a lot of public speaking, I usually speak to technical people. This was a wholly different crowd and I was pulling from a different set of expertise. The crowd was largely under 30 and wanting to start a business …
Below is the video of the webinar I did recently on PostgreSQL and Oracle. This webinar went very well. This is the first time I had ever performed a webinar that I recall. It was an interesting experience.
PostgreSQL for Oracle Developers and DBA's
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There is a nice lie out there. A lot of people want to believe it. They think by believing this lie it will somehow increase something for them. In some ways that is true. If you want what you are doing to be about you. If you are a believer in Open Source, it isn't about you. It is about the community and bettering that community as a whole.
If …
From the title, that is the question. This is the last week of the PgConf US 2017 CFP (you can submit here: http://www.pgconf.us/2017/submit/) and I have no idea what to submit.
I am blessed that my talks are very well attended, the audience is engaged and we all have a good time. Many times laughing at me because I have a hard time staying on one specific topic (especially …
In this blog post I will detail how to install Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL in Linux containers on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
It can be desirable to isolate certain software from the rest of a system for a variety of reasons. These reasons can range, but one of the most common is security. There are a multitude of methods for isolation …
The snap packages for 9.3.15, 9.4.10, 9.5.5 and 9.6.1 are now available. To install them:
sudo snap install postgresql$version
Where $version is one of 93, 94, 95 or 96.
The snap packages for PostgreSQL are a community project being lead by Command Prompt. You can visit the repo at github.
To learn more about snap packages please visit the Ubuntu snapcraft developer FAQ.
A #postgresql user today asked:
noob question - trying to write a Dockerfile that runs postgres... how do I get the effect of a non-interactive `service postgresql initdb` call?
Anyone who uses PostgreSQL knows of the best client available: psql. This is the client that ships with PostgreSQL. Yes it is a command line client (which turns some people off) but that also means that it is the most efficient at everyday tasks for a DBA. What a lot of people don't know is that psql is rather configurable. Here is an example:
Problem 1: I want my …
This is a test table from an Oracle to Postgres migration. The table has had a dozen or so columns removed for the illustration of this test case. I did not design this table but the customer is fixing it (adding proper primary key, changing to boolean and integer where appropriate etc...).
Column | Type | Modifiers -------------------+-----------------------------+-------------------- costcenterid | numeric | not null costcenterno | character varying(100) …