emacs-snapshot
If you want to live on the bleeding edge, it's easy enough to get a non existing release of GNU Emacs under debian sid, thanks to http://emacs.orebokech.com/. The problem is that Emacs Muse is broken...
View Articleprefix extension reaches 1.0 (rc1)
At long last, after millions and millions of queries just here at work and some more in other places, the prefix project is reaching 1.0 milestone. The release candidate is getting uploaded into debian...
View Articleprefix 1.0~rc2-1
I've been having problem with building both postgresql-8.3-prefix and postgresql-8.4-prefix debian packages from the same source package, and fixing the packaging issue forced me into modifying the...
View Articleprefix 1.0~rc2 in debian testing
At long last, here it is. With binary versions both for postgresal-8.3 and postgresal-8.4! Unfortunately my other packaging efforts are still waiting on the NEW queue, but I hope to soon see hstore-new...
View Articlehstore-new & preprepare reach debian too
It seems like debian developers are back from annual conference and holiday, so they have had a look at the NEW queue and processed the packages in there. Two of them were mines and waiting to get in...
View Articleprefix 1.0.0
So there it is, at long last, the final 1.0.0 release of prefix! It's on its way into the debian repository (targetting sid, in testing in 10 days) and available on pgfoundry to. In order to make it...
View ArticleYet Another PostgreSQL tool hits debian
So there it is, this newer contribution of mine that I presented at PGDay is now in debian NEW queue. pg_staging will empower you with respect to what you do about those nightly backups ( pg_dump -Fc...
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Emacs and PostgreSQL
Those are my two all times favorite Open Source Software. Or Free Software in the GNU sense of the world, as both the BSD and the GPL are labeled free there. Even if I prefer the The Debian Free...
View Articleel-get
I've been using emacs for a long time, and a long time it took me to consider learning Emacs Lisp. Before that, I didn't trust my level of understanding enough to be comfortable in managing my setup...
View Articledebian packaging PostgreSQL extensions
In trying to help an extension debian packaging effort, I've once again proposed to handle it. That's because I now begin to know how to do it, as you can see in my package overview page at debian QA...
View Articleel-get 1.1, with 174 recipes
Yes, you read it well, el-get currently features 174 recipes, and is now reaching the 1.1 release. The reason for this release is mainly that I have two big chunks of code to review and the current...
View ArticleExtensions in 9.1
If you've not been following closely you might have missed out on extensions integration. Well, Tom spent some time on the patches I've been preparing for the last 4 months. And not only did he commit...
View ArticleSome notes about Skytools3
I've been working on skytools3 packaging lately. I've been pushing quite a lot of work into it, in order to have exactly what I needed out of the box, after some 3 years of production and experiences...
View ArticleEmacs Kicker
Following up on the very popular emacs-starter-kit, I'm now proposing the emacs-kicker. It's about the .emacs file you've seen in older posts here, which I maintain for some colleagues. After all, if...
View ArticleExtension module_pathname and .sql.in
While currently too busy at work to deliver much Open Source contributions, let's debunk an old habit of PostgreSQL extension authors. It's all down to copy pasting from contrib, and there's no reason...
View ArticleBack from Ottawa, preparing for Cambridge
While Magnus is all about PG Conf EU already, you have to realize we're just landed back from PG Con in Ottawa. My next stop in the annual conferences is CHAR 11, the Clustering, High Availability and...
View ArticleMulti-Version support for Extensions
We still have this problem to solve with extensions and their packaging. How to best organize things so that your extension is compatible with before 9.1 and 9.1 and following releases of PostgreSQL?...
View Articlepgfincore in debian
As of pretty recently, pgfincore is now in debian, as you can see on its postgresql-9.0-pgfincore page. The reason why it entered the debian archives is that it reached the 1.0 release! Rather than...
View ArticlePostgreSQL and debian
After talking about it for a very long time, work finally did begin! I'm talking about the apt.postgresql.org build system that will allow us, in the long run, to propose debian versions of binary...
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Live Upgrading PGQ
Some skytools related new today, it's been a while. For those who where at my FOSDEM's talk about Implementing High Availability you might have heard that I really like working with PGQ. A new version...
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Quicklisp and debian
Common Lisp users are very happy to use Quicklisp when it comes to downloading and maintaining dependencies between their own code and the librairies it is using. Sometimes I am pointed that when...
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