Every so often someone asks why sorting behaves irrational. Like here:
$ SELECT string FROM test ORDER BY string; string ---------- dean deer de luca depesz de vil dyslexia (6 ROWS)
Why aren't “de luca" and “de vil" together?
Continue reading Why is “depesz" between “de luca" and “de vil"?
Some (quite long) time ago, someone, somewhere (my memory is pretty fragile) asked a question. I don't have it exact, but the gist was: is it possible to give some users rights to create new users, without making them superusers, and forcing new users to have access only to one particular database.
After some discussion it was clear that the scenario was shared hosting with PostgreSQL, so the situation could look like this:
you are administrator of shared hosting service. One of services is PostgreSQL. You have client, named “depesz", and you want him to be able to create new users, but these users shouldn't be able to connect to any other database than depesz's db.
Is it doable?
And so, it happened. After todays refresh of my Pg, I got:
$ SELECT version(); version ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PostgreSQL 9.2devel ON x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, compiled BY gcc-4.5.real (Ubuntu/Linaro 4.5.2-8ubuntu4) 4.5.2, 64-bit (1 ROW)
Yes. We're in 9.2 development now. Looks like we got another really cool release coming soon.
Thanks a lot to all developers.
First of all, as of today, I added new feature, called anonymization.
It is for all of the people who are afraid that their plans contain information that they don't want to (or can't) share on the internet.
It works like this:
Continue reading explain.depesz.com – new feature and some new stats
Couple of important points:
The fix is important – in some cases, making backups off slave on 9.0 will not work.
By not work I mean that backups would be still done, but Pg wouldn't start from it. If started as slave, it would work OK, but you wouldn't be able to promote it to standalone.
New version of OmniPITR fixes that, as long as you're using -cm switch (and possibly some others like -h, -P, -U or -d – details in docs.
Version information is actually not really simple to get, it requires:
perl -I/opt/omnipitr/lib -le 'use OmniPITR::Program; print $OmniPITR::Program::VERSION'
But it works. It will be changed to normal –version option in near future.
Also, as you can perhaps see, we migrated to github.