---
title: "This Week's PostgreSQL News (#46)"
publication: "Postgres Weekly"
issue: 46
published_at: "2014-02-13"
canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/46"
---

Postgres Weekly Issue 46 - February 13, 2014

[Archives](http://postgresweekly.com/issues) [Read this issue on the Web](http://postgresweekly.com/issues/46)**Postgres Weekly****Issue 46**
February 13, 2014[Total Security in A PostgreSQL Database](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-postgresecurity/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Theres probably no place you should care about security more than when it comes to your data. Here’s a great thorough read about many of the things to consider from roles to which languages you run in your database._IBM developerWorks_[Some Basic PostgreSQL Orchestration from bash](http://okbob.blogspot.com/2013/12/some-basic-postgresql-orchestration.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)If you actively develop with Postgres locally here’s a few scripts that may make your life easier._Pavel Stehule_[Colorizing The psql Prompt — A Guide](http://i-dba.blogspot.de/2014/02/colorizing-psql-prompt-guide.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Building on an [earlier post on taking advantage of psql](http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2013/02/13/How-I-Work-With-Postgres/), this digs much deeper into how you can customize various colors within it. A must for anyone that customizes their shells._John Graber_[A Kickstarter for Improved PostgreSQL Support in Django](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mjtamlyn/improved-postgresql-support-in-django?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)If you’re a Django and Postgres user consider backing this Kickstarter by a Django core developer to build a PostgreSQL specific backend for Django, taking advantage of a lot of awesome features such as hstore and range types._Kickstarter_[Generate man and html with asciidoc in a Postgres extension](http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/generate-man-and-html-with-asciidoc-in-a-postgres-extension/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Here’s a pretty sweet example for those looking to write extensions where it can automatically build docs to make it even more friendly for end users._Michael Paquier_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)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)Curated by [Craig Kerstiens](http://craigkerstiens.com/) and published by [Cooper Press](https://cooperpress.com/).
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