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Join us on October 14th at 10 am Pacific Time when I will present our latest webinar entitled "Scaling PostgreSQL on Amazon Web Services." PostgreSQL is often used in Amazon Web Services (AWS) deployments as a versatile data store. However, PostgreSQL...

Square's Ryan Lowe, production engineer, and John Cesario, platform engineer, spoke to us recently about PGConf Silicon Valley which is November 17-18 at the South San Francisco Conference Center. 

Square creates technology that helps sellers of all...

One of the upcoming features in PostgreSQL 9.5 is foreign table inheritance, which offers a suite of new possibilities for users of foreign data wrappers. An exciting possibility is that you will be able to create a single table in which recent data...

On October 8th at 17:30 the second Dutch PostgreSQL meetup will be held in Amsterdam. Please join us for some very interesting talks.

Andres Freund, a PostgreSQL committer and developer working at Citus Data, will speak about major scalability improvements...

Matthew Kelly, TripAdvisor's in-house PostgreSQL guru, spoke to us recently about PGConf Silicon Valley which is November 17-18 at the South San Francisco Conference Center. Early Bird pricing ends October 4th.

Matthew's talk at PGConf Silicon Valley...

I am pleased to announce that the full schedule of speakers and events for the first annual PGConf Silicon Valley conference is now available on the new conference website. Breakout session tracks include DevOps, New Features, PostGIS, Tales from the...

Update: As of Citus 5.0, Citus is now open source, and all pg_shard functionality is included directly in the Citus extension to Postgres. We encourage you to take a look at Citus instead. You can download Citus open source packages for single-machine...

Kenny Gorman, Chief Technologist; Data for Rackspace, spoke to us recently about PGConf Silicon Valley. Kenny's talk at PGConf Silicon Valley 2015 is Cloud PostgreSQL Automation Management with Ansible. The Ansible automation framework makes it very...

We received a number of interesting questions during this week's webinar entitled "Columnar Store for PostgreSQL Using cstore_fdw". We wanted to elaborate on a few of them.

"Is it possible/practical to move cstore-tables between servers such as on...

pg_shard is a PostgreSQL extension that scales out real-time read and writes. This document talks about an earlier version of pg_shard that used Postgres' foreign data wrappers (FDWs) for sharding and scaling. We failed, learned, and succeeded in our...