PostgreSQL

Migrating the Oracle 12cR1 sample schemas to PostgreSQL Plus Advanced Server 9.4

This post takes a look on how to migrate the Oracle 12cR1 sample schemas to PPAS 9.4 (PostgreSQL Plus Advanced Server 9.4). I’ll not dig into how to install PPAS as this was described in detail(…)

Row level security is coming to PostgreSQL

Before PostgreSQL 9.5 (which is in alpha2 currently) you could grant access to individual columns of a table to users or roles. A little test script to demonstrate this: (postgres@[local]:5432) [postgres] > select version(); version -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PostgreSQL(…)

Representing ranges with one data type?

How many applications do you know that need to define a validity of a row? And how many of these do that by adding two columns: valid_from and valid_to or similar column names? Well, in PostgreSQL (you already suspect it(…)

Connecting your PostgreSQL instance to an Oracle database – The PostgreSQL 9.5 way

As you might know PostgreSQL 9.5 is currently in alpha 2. One of the new features will be the possibility to import foreign schemas. Having this it is no longer required to create all the foreign(…)

Connecting your PostgreSQL instance to an Oracle database

For integrating data from other systems PostgreSQL has the concept of foreign data wrappers. Many of these exist for different types of systems. In this post I’ll look into how you may connect PostgreSQL to Oracle. The(…)

Testing the just released PostgreSQL 9.5 Alpha in a docker container

On the 2cnd of July the PostgreSQL Global Development Group released an alpha version of the upcoming PostgreSQL 9.5. The same day, Josh Berkus, another of those PostgreSQL core team members released a docker image for(…)

Indexing for like/similarity operations

Indexing queries for like/similarity conditions is not that easy with the usual index types. The only option you have with btree indexes (especially if the wild-card is at the beginning of the filter) is to create a partial(…)

Quickly create a hundred databases and users

Do you need a hundred databases and users for training etc. in PostgreSQL? Just a few lines of code: [postgres8@oel7 data]$ cat create_databases.sh #!/bin/bash NUMOFDBS=100 for i in `seq ${NUMOFDBS}`; do psql -q -c "create user u${i}(…)

What is more efficient: arrays or single column values?

In PostgreSQL ( as well as in other rdbms ) you can define columns as arrays. What I wondered is: What is more efficient when it comes to space: Creating several columns or just creating once column as array? The(…)

SQL Interpolation with psql

The PostgreSQL psql utility provides some really nice features. One of these features is SQL interpolation which allows us to do interesting things, e.g. reading files and analyze the results directly in the database. This post(…)