---
title: "This Week's PostgreSQL News (#33)"
publication: "Postgres Weekly"
issue: 33
published_at: "2013-10-23"
canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/33"
---

Postgres Weekly Issue 33 - October 23, 2013

[Archives](http://postgresweekly.com/issues) [Read this issue on the Web](http://postgresweekly.com/issues/33)**Postgres Weekly****Issue 33**
October 23, 2013Featured[Progress on Implementing Parallelism in Postgres](http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2013/10/parallelism-progress.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Parallelism has been desired within Postgres for a few years now. Fortunately one of the core contributors has been plugging away on it recently. Get an update directly from him here on progress._Robert Haas_[Rapid Schema Development with PostgreSQL](https://speakerdeck.com/andrewgodwin/rapid-schema-development-with-postgresql?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Postgres has had some flexibility with hstore (a key value column type) for some time, now its JSON is richer, and with PLV8 it has full JavaScript support. Andrew Godwin recently highlighted all this and how you can move faster with Postgres in many cases at Allyourbaseconf._Andrew Godwin_From our sponsor[Heroku Postgres - Fully managed Postgres on EC2](https://postgres.heroku.com/?utm_source=postgresweekly=email=emailbanner?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)There's a lot to worry about when building your application; ensuring your database is secured, backed up, available shouldn't have to be part of that. Let Heroku Postgres focus on keeping your database running so you can take advantage of all the awesome features within Postgres.

_Heroku Postgres is the worlds largest provider of Postgres as a Service, offering fully managed databases on top of EC2. Get started today for free and scale easily as your application needs to._[![\](http://s3.amazonaws.com/nlga/uploads/item/image/10726/thumb125_125x125-build-more-blue.png)](https://postgres.heroku.com/?utm_source=postgresweekly=email=emailbanner?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)The rest[PostgreSQL Autonomous Transactions](http://tapoueh.org/blog/2013/10/14-autonomous-transactions.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)In addition to parallelism, autonomous transactions are one of those features missing within Postgres. Fortunately you can get that functionality without too much extra effort with PL/Proxy_Dimitri Fontaine_[Using Custom Composite Types in PostgreSQL](http://okbob.blogspot.com/2013/10/using-custom-composite-types-in.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Composite types can offer you a bit more power within Postgres and can often be quite easy to work with. Here’s a specific look at using them specifically within PL/pgsql._Pavel Stehule_[post_json: A Document Database by Combining Features of Ruby, ActiveRecord and PostgreSQL with PLV8](https://github.com/webnuts/post_json?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)_Webnuts_[node-pg-query-stream: Query results from node-postgres as a readable (object) stream](https://github.com/brianc/node-pg-query-stream?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Query results from node-postgres as a readable (object) stream_Brian C_[E-Maj 1.1.0 released](http://www.postgresql.org/about/news/1486/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)If you need logging around various groups of tables for auditing and an ability to recover from them heres an extension to help with just that._PostgreSQL news_Curated by [Craig Kerstiens](http://craigkerstiens.com/) and published by [Cooper Press](https://cooperpress.com/).
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