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Seattle PostgreSQL Meetup This Thursday: New Location
I’m looking forward to the Seattle PostgreSQL User Group meetup this Thursday (June 20, 2019) at 5:30pm! We’re going to get an early sneak peek at what’s coming later this year in PostgreSQL’s next major release. The current velocity of development in this open source community is staggering and this is an exciting and valuable … Continue reading
PostgresConf 2019 Summary
PostgresConf 2019 in New York City is a wrap! Now that I’ve had a few days to recover a little brain capacity, I think I’m ready to attempt a summary. I love conferences for the learning opportunities… inside of sessions and also outside of them. Being the largest PostgreSQL-centered conference in the United States, PostgresConf … Continue reading
PostgresConf 2019 Training Days
It feels like PostgresConf in New York is in full swing, even though the main tracks haven’t even started yet! (Oh, and by the way, as of this morning I heard there are still day-passes available for those who haven’t yet registered for the conference… and then you can come hear a great session about … Continue reading
Column And Table Redefinition With Minimal Locking
TLDR: Note to future self… (1) Read this before you modify a table on a live PostgreSQL database. If you do it wrong then your app might totally hang. There is a right way to do it which avoids that. (2) Especially remember the lock_timeout step. Many blog posts around the ‘net are missing this … Continue reading
This Week in PostgreSQL – May 31
Since last October I’ve been periodically writing up summaries of interesting content I see on the internet related to PostgreSQL (generally blog posts). My original motivation was just to learn more about PostgreSQL – but I’ve started sharing them with a few colleagues and received positive feedback. Thought I’d try posting one of these digests … Continue reading
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