PostGIS Day synopsis
Yesterday was PostGIS day or as some may call it, Post GIS day and a couple of interesting things happened this day:PostgreSQL 9.4 RC1 came out.There were parties and unconferences, many summarized on...
View ArticleOracle FDW 1.1.0 with SDO_Geometry PostGIS spatial support
Oracle FDW is a foreign data wrapper PostgreSQL extension that allows you to read and write to Oracle database tables from a PostgreSQL database. You can get it via the PGXN network or the main website...
View ArticleOGR foreign data wrapper on Windows first taste
This christmas I received something very special from Paul Ramsey and Even Roualt as detailed in Foreign Data Wrappers for PostGIS. It's been something I've been patiently waiting for for 4 years. I...
View ArticleForeign Data Wrappers for PostgreSQL 9.4 Windows
As stated in last article, I've packaged FDW binaries for PostgreSQL 9.4 windows 32-bit and 64-bit and added in the ogr_fdw one. These we've tested with the standard EDB VS built PostgreSQL windows...
View ArticlePLV8 binaries for PostgreSQL 9.4 windows both 32-bit and 64-bit
I'm still in the middle of building packages for our clients for the packages that aren't normally distributed for windows to make upgrading to PostgreSQL 9.4 smooth. One of those is PL/V8 which we use...
View ArticleUsing SSL https connections with www_fdw on windows
One of the foreign data wrappers I included in the PostgreSQL 9.3 Windows FDW bag and PostgreSQL 9.4 Windows FDW bag is the www_fdw extension used for querying web services. Someone asked that since I...
View ArticleQuerying MS Access and other ODBC data sources with OGR_FDW
If you have the OGR_FDW we discussed in OGR FDW Windows first taste built with ODBC support, then you can access most any ODBC datasource from PostgreSQL. This is especially useful for Windows users....
View ArticleLATERAL WITH ORDINALITY - numbering sets
One of the neat little features that arrived at PostgreSQL 9.4 is the WITH ORDINALITY ANSI-SQL construct. What this construct does is to tack an additional column called ordinality as an additional...
View ArticleAdding properties to existing JSON object with PLV8
Lately I've been experimenting with building semi-schemaless apps. These are apps where much of the data may never be used for reporting aside from story telling and also that as time goes by some of...
View ArticlePostgreSQL OGR FDW update and PostGIS 2.2 news
PostGIS 2.2 is planned to reach feature freeze June 30th 2015 so we can make the September PostgreSQL 9.5 curtain call with confidence. Great KNN enhancements for PostgreSQL 9.5 only users. I've been...
View ArticleImport Foreign Schema hack with OGR_FDW and reading LibreOffice calc workbooks
PostgreSQL 9.4 and below doesn't support importing whole set of tables from a FOREIGN server, but PostgreSQL 9.5 does with the upcoming Import Foreign Schema. To use will require FDW wrapper designers...
View ArticlePostGIS 2.2 Windows users hold off on installing latest PostgreSQL patch release
Someone reported recently on PostGIS mailing list, that they were unable to install PostGIS 2.2.1 bundle or PostGIS 2.2.2 binaries on a clean PostgreSQL 9.5.2 install. Someone also complained about...
View Articleregexp_split_to_table and string_to_array unnest performance
Whenever you need to split a text into multiple records breaking by some delimeter, there are two common options that PostgreSQL provides. The first isregpexp_split_to_table and then next popular is...
View ArticlePostgreSQL JSQuery extension Windows binaries
PostgreSQL JSQuery extension Windows binariesThe JSQuery extension is a PostgreSQL extension developed by Postgres Professional. You can get the source code and instructions for use...
View Articlehttp extension for windows 64 and 32-bit
For those folks on windows who want to do http gets and posts directly from your PostgreSQL server, we've made binaries for the http extension v1.2.2 release for PostgreSQL 10, 9.6, 9.5, and 9.4...
View ArticleUnpivoting data using JSON functions
Most of our use-cases for the built-in json support in PostgreSQL is not to implement schemaless design storage, but instead to remold data. Remolding can take the form of restructuring data into json...
View ArticlePostGIS 2.5.1 Bundle for Windows
PostGIS 2.5.1 was released on November 18th 2018 and I finished off packaging the PostGIS 2.5.1 windows builds and installers targeted for PostgreSQL EDB distribution this weekend and pushing them up...
View ArticleOGR foreign data wrapper on Windows first taste
This christmas I received something very special from Paul Ramsey and Even Roualt as detailed in Foreign Data Wrappers for PostGIS. It's been something I've been patiently waiting for for 4 years. I...
View ArticleForeign Data Wrappers for PostgreSQL 9.4 Windows
As stated in last article, I've packaged FDW binaries for PostgreSQL 9.4 windows 32-bit and 64-bit and added in the ogr_fdw one. These we've tested with the standard EDB VS built PostgreSQL windows...
View ArticlePLV8 binaries for PostgreSQL 9.4 windows both 32-bit and 64-bit
I'm still in the middle of building packages for our clients for the packages that aren't normally distributed for windows to make upgrading to PostgreSQL 9.4 smooth. One of those is PL/V8 which we use...
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