---
title: "This Week's PostgreSQL News (#69)"
publication: "Postgres Weekly"
issue: 69
published_at: "2014-08-20"
canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/69"
---

Postgres Weekly Issue 69 - August 20, 2014

[Archives](http://postgresweekly.com/issues) [Read this issue on the Web](http://postgresweekly.com/issues/69)**Postgres Weekly****Issue 69**
August 20, 2014[My Wish List for Postgres 9.5](http://www.craigkerstiens.com/2014/08/15/my-postgres-wishlist-for-9.5/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)While Postgres 9.4 is still not quite here yet, work is very much under way for the next release which we’ll see about a year from now (9.5). Here’s my personal wish list of what I’m hoping to see in 9.5._Craig Kerstiens_[Using Postgres as a Document Store](http://gists.fritzy.io/2014/08/14/postgres-as-a-keystore?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Want to go full document store with Postgres and not just add a little flexibility here and there? Here’s a look at some modern approaches to it (though just wait for it to improve with 9.4 and JSONB)._Nathan Fritz_[Introducing POWA - A New PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer](http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/1408454316.1952.38.camel@laptop-virginie?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Last week we say [pg:diagnose](https://github.com/heroku/pgdiagnose) open sourced to help with monitoring performance of Postgres. This week we have another tool as a full web app that will monitor and analyze your performance._Virginie Jourdan_[A Docker PostgreSQL Workflow](http://davidamick.wordpress.com/2014/07/19/docker-postgresql-workflow/?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)If you’re experimenting with Docker for deployment or anything else and have Postgres in you’re stack then you’ll want to take a look at this walkthrough._Snarly Sod Boxer_[Another Wish List for Postgres 9.5](http://blog.databasepatterns.com/2014/08/my-wish-list-for-postgres-95.html?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)As a follow-up to my initial list of what I’m hoping to see a few piled on to their hopes for 9.5. Here’s another great list that hits on several things that would make Postgres much better for all._Database Patterns_[count_distinct improvements](http://blog.pgaddict.com/posts/count-distinct-improvements?utm_source=postgresweekly&utm_medium=email)Count distinct while accurate hasn’t always been one of Postgres’ strong suits. There’s been a few methods for approximating, but with mixed accuracy. Fortunately improvements to it are on the way._pgaddict_Curated by [Craig Kerstiens](http://craigkerstiens.com/) and published by [Cooper Press](https://cooperpress.com/).
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