| Postgres Weekly |
Issue 50
March 19, 2014
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| We've made it to issue 50 :-) A huge thanks goes to Craig Kerstiens, as always, for continuing to curate Postgres Weekly. |
| PostgreSQL Now Has Logical Decoding |
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While Postgres won’t have full logical replication for 9.4, a commit that snuck in which adds logical decoding lays a lot of the groundwork for it. Here’s a quick read from a Postgres committer on why this is extremely important for the future of Postgres.
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| Robert Haas |
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| Postgres full-text search is Good Enough! |
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Postgres has had full text search for some time now, but there’s still plenty of other tools. Here’s an awesomely extensive post that digs into the basics as well as a few more complicated things (eventually building a complete search system) but still without the need for an external system for full text search.
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| Rach Belaid |
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| Heroku Postgres - Fully managed Postgres on EC2 |
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| A JSON field type for Django |
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JSON and document databases have continued to grow in popularity, often being a point of contention for relational DBs. At the same time Postgres has had JSON for a few years now, but it’s not always been user friendly. Though, here’s a great package and example for working with it in Django.
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| Hansel Dunlop |
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| Write scalability for UPDATE operations |
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In the past few releases write scalability and performance improvements have been pretty noticeable within Postgres. Now not quite as large but still solid improvements are making their way in for Updates.
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| Robert Haas |
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