Thursday, January 26, 2017

PL/Perl and Large PostgreSQL Databases

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One of the topics discussed in the large database talk is the way we used PL/Perl to solve some data variety problems in terms of extractin...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

PostgreSQL at 10 TB and Above

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I have been invited to give a talk on PostgreSQL at 10TB and above in Malmo, Sweden.  The seminar is free to attend.  I expect to be talking...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

What Git got Right and Wrong

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Having been using various vcs solutions for a while, I think it is worth noting that my least favorite from a user experience perspective is...
Thursday, August 18, 2016

PostgreSQL vs Hadoop

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So one of the clients I do work with is moving a large database from PostgreSQL to Hadoop .  The reasons are sound -- volume and velocity a...
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Sunday, August 14, 2016

Forthcoming new scalable job queue extension

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So for those of you who know, I now spend most of my time doing more general PostgreSQL consulting and a fair bit of time still on LedgerSM...
Friday, August 5, 2016

use lib '.' considered harmful (exploits discussed)

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Which the discussion of CVE-2016-1238, a quick and easy fix for broken code that has been suggested is to add the following line to the top ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2016

PostgreSQL, PL/Perl, and CVE-2016-1238

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This post is about the dangers in writing user defined functions in untrusted languages, but it is also specifically about how to avoid CVE-...