Andrew Dunstan's PostgreSQL and Technical blog

Any time a source code management system gets in your way it's not doing its job. It's really something you should have to think abo...

One of my oldest clients is switching to a new technology stack. After many years of using AOLServer, OpenACS and Postgres as their preferre...

The other day Peter Eisentraut made a small commit that was probably little noticed, but I think is very useful. He added a few lines to th...

The psql client has a nasty habit of being a bit over-aggressive about when it routes output through the pager. So I oten find myself typin...

I mentioned this the other day, and I now have an extension with a simple function to turn an array of key value pairs into a json object, m...

Today I've published a major revision to the Redis Foreign Data Wrapper code for use with PostgreSQL versions 9.2 and later. There are...

As I'm working on making the Redis Foreign Data Wrapper actually do something useful, it's occurred to me that one of the Json funct...

IVC , a great boutique software house that I have worked with for quite a few years, has been shifting to a new, more modern, software stack...

Last week Gurjeet Singh asked me about getting the MinGW64 compiler working. When I looked I noticed that they has not made an official buil...

As I was looking for ways yesterday to claw back some of the cost of switching to a recursive descent parser for json, I was interested to s...

Robert Haas wanted to know how much slower the recursive descent JSON parser would be than the explicit stack based one it's replacing. ...

Version 4.10 of the buildfarm client has been released. Following GitHub's abandonment of their download feature, releases will now be...