Just released version 0.3.0 of our tool for handling WAL based replication in PostgreSQL - OmniPITR. Version jump is related to addition of another tool - omnipitr-synch. This tool is used to copy PostgreSQL data dir (including all tablespaces of course) ...
Today, I released 2 new versions (new features in 0.5, and then quick bugfix in 0.51) of Pg::Explain Perl library. This is the base of explain.depesz.com - the code that does heavy lifting of parsing plans, and providing them in uniform ...
Thanks to enormous work done by Łukasz 'metys' Lewandowski, explain.depesz.com page is no longer "desiged by depesz" (which is a code for "ugly as hell"), but is nice, and good looking. If you like it, please do send some thank you ...
On 18th of February, Alvaro Herrera committed patch: Convert Postgres arrays to Perl arrays on PL/perl input arguments More generally, arrays are turned in Perl array references, and row and composite types are turned into Perl hash references. This is done recursively, in ...
First of all - just today I committed patch for Pg::Explain - which is the workhorse behind explain.depesz.com. This patch fixes calculation of exclusive time for explain nodes, and the best thing about it is - I didn't write it. It's ...
OmniPITR project that I wrote about some time ago is going on. Just today I finished tests for omnipitr-backup-slave - part of OmniPITR which lets you make hot-backups of WAL-slave machine - without any additional load on master. As previously - please ...
Today, Mattias|farm on IRC asked how to create primary key using HASH index. After some talk, he said that in some books it said that for "=" (equality) hash indexes are better. So, I digged a bit deeper.
Thanks to the company I work for OmniTI I was working on pretty cool project. Name of the project is OmniPITR, and here is what it is, why, how, and where to get it.
Just thought I'll share it - maybe somebody else will use it. I'm using KDE 3.5, so the final "dcop ..." command, simply sets the file as current wallpaper. I also use 1680x1050 resolution - which you can probably guess from the ...
I just updated explain.depesz.com with bugfix, which changes the way Bitmap Index Scan and Bitmap Heap Scan are displayed. Apparently index and table names were not shown previously. Thanks go to Viktor Rosenfeld for spotting and reporting the bug.
