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Friday, July 25. 2008

Customer Feedback about PostgreSQL Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 16:39

Customer Feedback about PostgreSQL

During the course of last year, I did have opportunities to talk to
various Sun Customers about PostgreSQL. One of the thing I want to list
out the common problems that I heard from them which may not be really
trends but at least the one that I was "hit" from customers while doing my job. [Read More]

Friday, July 25. 2008

PostgreSQL/OpenSolaris Success Story Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 00:34

PostgreSQL/OpenSolaris Success Story

A new success story about a Sun Customer using PostgreSQL and OpenSolaris has been published. [Read More]

Monday, July 21. 2008

Is PostgreSQL dead at Sun? Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 11:00

Is PostgreSQL dead at Sun?

Ever since Sun Microsystems acquired MySQL, the most common question that I had to answer was "Is PostgreSQL dead at Sun?". [Read More]

Monday, July 21. 2008

Peter Eisentraut joins Sun Microsystems Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 00:21

Peter Eisentraut joins Sun Microsystems

Just read the news on Sun's On The Record blog entry that Peter Eisentraut is joining Sun Microsystems. [Read More]

Thursday, July 3. 2008

wal_buffers and PostgreSQL 8.3.3 Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 00:11

wal_buffers and PostgreSQL 8.3.3

Recently Felix Malinkevich joined the ISV-E Open Source Team at Sun as an Intern working on PostgreSQL [Read More]

Wednesday, June 11. 2008

PostgreSQL Monitor - A demo Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 12:01

PostgreSQL Monitor - A demo

Netbeans 6.1
was released recently which includes PostgreSQL JDBC driver. It had
been a while since I had done programming as a developer, so I decided
to take it for a test drive to refresh my programming skills with it. [Read More]

Monday, May 26. 2008

Problems with PostgreSQL on ... Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 05:27

Problems with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems with Multi-Terabyte Data

Title: Problems with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems with Multi-Terabyte Data

Friday, May 16. 2008

PGCon 2008 next week in Ottawa, Canada Posted by Jignesh K. Shah at 22:51

PGCon 2008 next week in Ottawa, Canada

It is that time of the year when many PostgreSQL fans gather in Ottawa,
Canada for PGCon 2008 next week. This will be my first visit to PGCon
in Ottawa. Earlier this year I had presented two sessions "PostgreSQL
and Benchmarks" and "Best Practices of PostgreSQL on Solaris" at
PostgreSQL Conference 2008 East in Maryland. Thanks to that visit, this
time I might recognize many people by face this time around.
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