| Postgres Weekly |
Issue 12
May 29, 2013
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Featured
| PostgreSQL At A Glance |
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Hopefully you're already a fan of Postgres and the many features it offers, though if you're less familiar with its history here's a great overview why you should know about it, its history, and a bit on how it works under the covers.
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| Spotlight on Postgres 9.3 |
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As Postgres 9.3 is just around the corner, with the first beta already available, there's increasing talk about what it will contain. Here's a great highlight from PgCon which includes foreign data wrappers, materialized views, lateral queries, and more.
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The rest
| The People of Postgres: Tom Lane |
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Tom Lane is a core contributor to Postgres and has helped shape much of the web being involved in creating tiff, jpeg, and png image format. He recently moved to Salesforce.com with a subtle announcement on the PostgreSQL developer meeting wiki. @selenamarie, a major contributor, highlights a bit more about him and what it means for Postgres.
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| K Nearest Neighbour search for PostgreSQL |
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KNN, K Nearest Neighbor, is one of many index types available in Postgres. Here's a bit of an older presentation that still does a great job of highlighting what it is and when you'd want to use it.
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| jstore |
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hStore, the key/value store within Postgres, has gotten a lot of attention over the past two years. As of Postgres 9.2 there's a JSON datatype as well. A talk this year at PgCon from those that largely contributed to hStore highlights how the benefits of both may be combined in the future.
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| Liberate |
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If you like the JSON datatype, but don't already have JSON here's a fun script to convert all of your data into JSON directly in Postgres.
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