---
title: "This Week's PostgreSQL News (#50)"
publication: "Postgres Weekly"
issue: 50
published_at: "2014-03-19"
canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/50"
---

Postgres Weekly Issue 50 - March 19, 2014

[Archives](http://postgresweekly.com/issues) [Read this issue on the Web](http://postgresweekly.com/issues/50)**Postgres Weekly****Issue 50**
March 19, 2014We've made it to issue 50 :-) A huge thanks goes to [Craig Kerstiens](https://twitter.com/craigkerstiens), as always, for continuing to curate Postgres Weekly.[PostgreSQL Now Has Logical Decoding](http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2014/03/postgresql-now-has-logical-decoding.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)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._Robert Haas_[Postgres 9.3.4 Due to Be Released Tomorrow (March 20)](http://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/static/release-9-3-4.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)_postgresql.org_[Postgres full-text search is Good Enough!](http://blog.lostpropertyhq.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enough/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)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._Rach Belaid_[Postgres 9.4 feature highlight: Physical slots for replication](http://michael.otacoo.com/postgresql-2/postgres-9-4-feature-highlight-replication-slots/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Yet another one of the features that helps lay the groundwork for logical replication in Postgres did happen to land in 9.4. It can still have some benefits without the full logical rep and here’s a great dive into how._Michael Paquier_[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 and scale easily as your application needs to._Sponsored_[![\](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)[Check out the latest issue of DB Weekly, our general database newsletter](http://dbweekly.com/issues/5?euid=*|UNIQID|*?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)DB Weekly is now 5 issues old and going great. Check out [issue 5](http://dbweekly.com/issues/5?euid=*|UNIQID|*) to see if you like it, and if you do, it's a single click to extend your subscription from here._Cooper Press_[A JSON field type for Django](https://metric.io/blog/2014/07/json-field-type-django?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)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._Hansel Dunlop_[Write scalability for UPDATE operations](http://rhaas.blogspot.com/2014/03/write-scalability-for-update-operations.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)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._Robert Haas_[plv8-bedrock: PostgreSQL/plv8 CommonJS, migrations, unit tests.](https://github.com/mgutz/plv8-bedrock?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Want commonJS, NPM packages, and everything else JS in your database? Here’s a solution that lets you package up all those things and shove them directly into your DB that has PL/V8 enabled._Mario Gutierrez_Curated by [Craig Kerstiens](http://craigkerstiens.com/) and published by [Cooper Press](https://cooperpress.com/).
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