Around the time that Xzilla wrote about the book, Packt contacted me and asked for a review.
Since I generally don't really read technical books, I declined the offer, but Sandy from Packt was very persistent, and asked if I could inform about book giveaway contest.
The book is definitely PostgreSQL related, and Xzilla suggested to check it out, so here it goes:
Continue reading Win a book contest – PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to
I tend to write about new features in new versions of PostgreSQL, but this patch actually fixes one of the things that annoy me a lot, so here it goes:
On 26th of January, Simon Riggs committed:
Log Message: ----------- Fix longstanding gripe that we check for 0000000001.history at start of archive recovery, even when we know it is never present.
If you've ever tried to roll your own restore_command script ( like pg_standby ) then you know that to the algorithm that's presented in docs You always had to add special case for file “0000000001.history" – which was never there, but somehow PostgreSQL always asked for it – despite the fact that it could never arrive.
Now, thanks to this small patch we will no longer need to add this “if" in any script. It's small, and it's not a new feature, but I am SO happy to see it.
On 2nd of February Andrew Dunstan committed his patch (with editing by Tom Lane) that:
Log Message: ----------- Provide for parallel restoration from a custom format archive. Each data and post-data step is run in a separate worker child (a thread on Windows, a child process elsewhere) up to the concurrent number specified by the new pg_restore command-line --multi-thread | -m switch.
Continue reading Waiting for 8.4 – parallel restoration of dumps