| Postgres Weekly | Issue 44
January 29, 2014
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| | Writing PostGIS raster Map Algebra Callback Functions in PL/V8 | |
The promise as well as delivery of PL/V8 (the JavaScript engine that can be embedded directly in Postgres) continues to impress as in this case providing a speedup of some of the standard PostGIS functions by implementing them in JavaScript.
| | PostgresOnline |
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| Global sequences with postgres_fdw | |
Another use case for foreign data wrappers by taking advantage of them for centralizing your sequences across DBs, in addition to the often talked about cases of federating data.
| | Michael Paquier |
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| TO_DATE() / TO_TIMESTAMP() gotchas | |
While slightly focused on the differences between Oracle and PostgreSQL, there are some interesting differences between to_date and to_timestamp which emerged on the pgsql mailing list.
| | Ian Barwick |
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