Andrew Dunstan's PostgreSQL and Technical blog

I have pushed  Release 18 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client In addition to numerous minor tweaks and bug fixes, the following changes are m...

This book, published in December 2023 by packt , is the latest incarnation of a book originally principally authored by Simon Riggs, and bro...

I have pushed Release 17 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client. Release 17 has two main features: Modernize the way we do cross-version upgrad...

  Hot on the heels of Release 15 comes Release 16. This release deals with some issues that have been discovered with the check for update ...

Changes add a new script manage_alerts.pl that lets the user enable or disable alerts for an animal This is especially useful in the case...

This time for sure (h/t Bullwinkle) Yesterday I finally turned off my Windows XP instance for good. It's been running for quite a long...

 The output from running a buildfarm step is the output from running a command such as make check followed by any relevant log files that th...

 This is to announce release 14 of the PostgreSQL Buildfarm client. Significant changes: don't run TestUpgrade if TAP tests are present...

  I have just pushed Release 13.1 of the PostgreSQL BuildFarm client. This update to Release 13 fixes errors that occur from the new defaul...

I have pushed Release 13 of the PostgreSQL BuildFarm client. Change highlights: add tests for a few cases that were previously missin...

Recent discussion set me thinking about what would be involved in setting up standalone TAP tests for Postgres, to do, say, more code covera...

In keeping with modern git practice, I have renamed the default branch on both the client-code and server-code repositories to main . If y...