Archive for the 'dba' Category

[RUS ]Массив? Или как лучше? / PostgreSQL : Форум на SQL.RU | Array? or how to do it better? – A way to deal with serializable objects in PostgreSQL

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

this is a discussion from russian database forum SQL.RU that describes 2 common ways of storing serializable objects in RDBMS.

PGQ Tutorial – PostgreSQL Wiki

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009

http://sql.ru/forum/actualthread.aspx?tid=665075 Examples how to use PgQ queue in postgres

A look at the MySQL forks [LWN.net]

Thursday, May 14th, 2009

describes recent forks, patch-sets and build of mysql. If you looking at this page deciding which fork of mysql will be better suited for your new project — maybe better to use PostgreSQL instead

What happened to Hot Standby?

Saturday, March 21st, 2009

Josh Berkus explaing why hot-standby replication did not make it into postgresql 8.4

Pitrtools – Trac /set of tools for setting up PITR on PostgreSQL/

Thursday, February 26th, 2009

PITRTools is a set of wrapper scripts that provide warm standby functionality to PostgreSQL. The software is essentially two scripts, cmd_archiver.py and cmd_standby.py. The project is under the BSD license.

SourceForge.net: BenchmarkSQL

Friday, February 20th, 2009

tool for testing database performance, jdbc-based, supports a lot of different DBs

Benchmarking Databases I. Volatile Storage. – Pon un sol en tu vida

Friday, February 20th, 2009

PostgreSQL, MySQL and Oracle are compared using reasonable hardware setup and TPC-C like test with BenchmarkSQL tool (JDBC ) . This post will probably disappear soon as the author clearly violates oracle license that does not permit publishing benchma…

[russian] Юзеры – Друзья. Какая связь? / Проектирование БД : Форум на SQL.RU || User – Friends relationship : Database design, forum SQL.ru

Friday, August 22nd, 2008

design pattern for friends/users, i.e. how to organize user-friend relationship. patters suggest that you need to make 2 tables, i.e freindship and friendship:user

BLOB, iBatis & PostgreSql 8.1 – dBforums [large objects vs bytea]

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

sane notes about storing binary data in Postgres. Basically bytea is ASCII representaion of bynary data wich requires decoding / escaping (read: slow) and large objects a kind of ok, but not trigger-based replication compartable

Benchmark: Dell/Perc 6, 8 disk RAID 10 [postgresql-performance mailing list]

Friday, June 27th, 2008

Dell 2950