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Issue 142 — February 3, 2016
Using PostgreSQL in R: A Quick How-To
R is a great language when it comes to analytics, and Postgres is great for storing your data. Fortunately, both of them can work well together and here’s your quick guide.
Nina Zumel
Postgres 9.5: Three Little Things
There have been some great posts about Postgres 9.5’s main features but there are some smaller items that make a difference - here’s three you may have missed.
Greg Sabino Mullane
Breaking News: New Enterprise-Ready EDB Postgres Advanced Server 9.5
Newly released EDB Postgres Advanced Server 9.5 features a range of enhancements for increased performance, scalability, security, and manageability to ensure success with Postgres for business critical workloads.
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Waiting for 9.6 – Support Parallel Joins
Postgres 9.5 is here, which means we can now look forward to Postgres 9.6. While it’s still early days, parallel joins will undoubtedly be one of the major highlights, and these could deliver some great performance improvements.
Hubert depesz Lubaczewski
Always Put 'stats_temp_directory' on a Memory-Based File System
The Postgres stats collector generates a lot of write activity so this will help with overall system IO performance.
The Build
ML-Based Prediction with PostgreSQL and PL/R in Four Rounds
Integrating with R seems to be the hot thing for Postgres right now. Here’s our second post for the week looking at Postgres and R, this time with more advanced machine learning tied to it.
Ergo
Fast Fuzzy Text Search In Phoenix With Ecto
A tutorial on introducing a very fast fuzzy text search in Postgres using Phoenix and Ecto.
CometaWorks   #code 
Binomial Options Pricing in SQL
How to set up a discrete binomial tree using the binomial options pricing model to value derivatives in SQL, and apply this in an example of pricing a 3-period call option.
Periscope   #tutorial 
How To Back Up, Restore, and Migrate PostgreSQL Databases with Barman on CentOS 7
Sadequl Hussain   #tutorial 
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