An Overview of New Goodies Coming in Postgres 9.3. Versions of this talk have been delivered at BWPUG May 2013, PGCON 2013, PGConf EU 2013, and PGConf DE 2013.
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Top 10 Reasons I like Postgres Over SQL Server - DataChomp
While at Waza this year, I had a chance to talk to my friend Guillaume Roques. In addition to talking about SalesForce, we took advantage of our mutual .NET backgrounds to discuss Microsoft. We did the typically uncompromising praise of The Gu and how far Azure has come along in the last 18 months… and of course we had to talk databases. Below is my quick little list of reasons I gave him as to why I’m favoring Postgres over SQL Server from a technical/business aspect. SQL Server still to this day deploys pessimistic concurrency out of the box. Anyone not aware of this “feature” starts out very disadvantaged on performance. This person will soon get an internet history filled with locking/blocking/deadlocking links. Postgres defaults to optimistic concurrency via its MVCC feature and is a joy to work with.
Postgres-XC is an open source project to provide a write-scalable, synchronous multi-master, transparent PostgreSQL cluster solution. It is a collection if tightly coupled database components which can be installed in more than one hardware or virtual machines.
Heroku | Fork Your Application's Data (Not Just Your Code) with Heroku Postgres
Git and Github revolutionized software development by letting you fork your source repository with a single click. Wouldn't it be great to be able to do th
Building Multi-tenant Rails Apps with PostgreSQL Schemas - Jerod Santo
There are a few different ways to go about building a multi-tenant Rails application. One way that works really well for certain apps is to use PostgreSQL's 'schemas' feature to partition each tenant's data. This article lays out why you might want to build your multi-tenant app this way and how to go about it.
We are getting to the final stage of the first stable release of PL/v8. This should be a good release with a lot of improvement such like Subtransaction support…