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InfoWorld – EnterpriseDB is touting enterprise-level capabilities of its Postgres Plus Standard Server 8.4 open source database, which was released this week. The company says the database, which is based on PostgreSQL database technology, offers enterprises cost benefits of open source, performance benefits of a community-developed product, and the reassurance of vendor support. Read more here: (InfoWorld)"> (InfoWorld)"> (InfoWorld)">EnterpriseDB cites enterprise capabilities in open source database (InfoWorld) Read Full Story
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There's a lot of talk about the lack of built-in replication for postgres. I have been using the "pg_comparator" method for slave updates. This is essentially similar to an "rsync" for database tables. It works extremely well and has a low configuration overhead. You can use it to scale a single table out to dozens of servers, even choosing which fields to replicate. It's also easy to install, configure and maintain - even code for. Personally, I like it better than the builtin solution that they are discussing on postgres's lists. I wish a diff-patch shipping solution was in the running. For a lot ... Read Full Story
Written by LewisC on
When it comes to data issues (too many rows, no data found, etc), in Oracle stored procedures, I am used to having exceptions raised that I then handle. PL/pgSQL does not raise exceptions for the same conditions in the same way. The Postgres docs are pretty complete though and through some reading this weekend, I discovered a new keyword. For example, assuming that I have this table (which is empty) in both Oracle and Postgres: CREATE TABLE empty_table ( empty_col integer ); In Oracle this procedure: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE no_data_found_test AS v_int_field INTEGER; BEGIN SELECT empty_col INTO v_int_field FROM empty_table; END; When run: ... Read Full Story
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LewisC's An Expert's Guide To Oracle Technology According to an article at Computerworld , Yahoo is running a 2 PB (not GB, not TB, PB - Petabyte) database that processes 24 billion events a day. Let's put that in perspective. 24 billion events is 24,000 million events; 24,000,000,000 events. 1 petabyte is 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. Yahoo has two of those. Actually, I should be basing this on 1k which is 1024 but when you're dealing with petabytes, I don't think we need to be picky. We're talking really, really big. Yahoo uses this database to analyze the browsing habits of it half a billion monthly ... Read Full Story
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I come from an Oracle background so I am used to a few rules when it comes to DDL. Don't perform DDL in a production database until you've done it in a test instance. DDL is permanent unless you have flashback or want to restore. That might sound like a limitation but I don't see it that way. You *SHOULD* test everything before running it in production. And flashback is much more powerful than simply having commit and rollback for DDL. Today I was trying out some changes to my code (that runs outside of the database) and needed to do a quick test ... Read Full Story
Last time I wrote code with psycopg2 was around 2006, but I was reacquainted with it over the past couple of weeks, and I wanted to make some notes on a couple of features that are not well documented, imho. Portions of this post have been snipped from mailing list threads I was involved in. Calling PostgreSQL Functions with psycopg2 So you need to call a function. Me too. I had to call a function called ‘myapp.new_user’. It expects a bunch of...  
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LYONS, N.Y., Dec. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Many MySQL(R) and PostgreSQL DBAs are frustrated by their inability to account for high server usage. The engineers at Software Workshop had similar feelings when trying to find 'usage hogs' among web hosting clients.  
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LinuxSecurity.com: Database security is the single biggest concern with today's Web-based applications. Without control, you risk exposing sensitive information about your company or, worse yet, your valuable customers. In this article, learn about security measures you can take to protect your PostgreSQL database.  
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The Linux OOM Killer heuristic can be summed up as: Run out of memory. Kill PostgreSQL. Look for processes that might be using too much memory, and kill them, hopefully freeing memory. Notice that step #2 is independent of factors like: Is PostgreSQL consuming a significant share of the memory resources? Will killing PostgreSQL alleviate any memory pressure at all? The reason for this is because linux, when under memory pressure, invokes...  
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Searching and calculating Median in databases was terrible. Still median isn't ANSI SQL aggregate function. There are two commons method how to calculate median of some column. First - very old, and very slow based on self join alchemy, second - new - based on analytic function. Now, I will be test some newer methods on one million rows large table:postgres=# create table milrows(a real);CREATE TABLETime: 7,975 mspostgres=# insert into milrows...  
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DeZign for Databases supports Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access, DB2, InterBase, PostgreSQL, Firebird, Sybase, DBISAM, Paradox, FoxPro, dBase, Clipper, Pervasive SQL, Informix. Pricing and Availability ------------------------ ...  
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Updated Postgres Plus includes enterprise featuresEnterpriseDB is touting enterprise level capabilities of its Postgres Plus Standard Server 8.4 open source database, which was released this week. The company says the database, which is based on PostgreSQL database technology, offers enterprises cost benefits of open source, performance benefits of a community developed product, and the reassurance of vendor support.  
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