It has been said that: Lucky people get opportunities. Brave people create opportunities. And winners are those who convert their problems into opportunities. Partner Exchange at VMworld 2016 welcomed many partners who are winning with VMware and wanted to share their experience helping customers convert problems into opportunities. First, Fujitsu sat down with us to […]

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GPU-accelerated computing has fueled recent breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, scientific discovery and high performance computing. It now has a cloud computing pipeline to match. We’ve worked with Amazon Web Services to create their newest and most powerful GPU-accelerated cloud offering: the AWS EC2 P2 instance. Researchers and data scientists can use the instance, which is […]

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It was my wobbly willpower vs. a double-chocolate brownie, and the brownie was winning. My newest defense: the Lose It diet app’s deep learning calorie counter. Using a photo of the brownie, it warned me of the harrowing diet damage the brownie would inflict. I ate half. I am not a dieter. The idea of […]

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With droopy electronic eyes, two gangly arms and four spindly legs, MANTIS looks like it could be a sidekick in a science-fiction blockbuster. This robot isn’t from a universe far, far away, but from northern Germany. And it was on display this week in Amsterdam among a half-dozen walking, flying and crawling machines powered by […]

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PostgreSQL's repository for Debian and Ubuntu packages, apt.postgresql.org, has been extended to provide pre-built binary packages for a third architecture. ppc64el, the little-endian incarnation of IBM's POWER architecture, is joining the existing amd64 (64-bit x86 Intel) and i386 (32-bit x86 Intel) architectures.

The PostgreSQL 9.6 release is already included in the repository.

Just as on the existing architectures, all packages will be supported for all PostgreSQL major releases - which is currently all releases from 9.1 to 9.6. With only a few exceptions, all packages previously included in the repository have been compiled for ppc64el. [1]

Supported Debian distributions are Debian 8 (Jessie) and unstable (Sid); supported Ubuntu releases are 14.04 (Trusty) and 16.04 (Xenial).

This initiative has been led by 2ndQuadrant in cooperation with IBM Italy. Thanks must also be given to credativ for helping with the setup of the build infrastructure for the ppc64el architecture.

The ppc64el build host is provided by IBM Power Systems Linux Center - Montpellier.

Kind Regards, Marco / Debian PostgreSQL Maintainers

[1] pg-partman is not available for 9.6 yet; psqlodbc and libpqtypes are not available on Trusty.

The pgAdmin Development Team are pleased to announce the release of pgAdmin 4 version 1.0.

pgAdmin is the leading Open Source management and administration tool for PostgreSQL.

pgAdmin 4 is a complete rewrite of pgAdmin, built using Python and Javascript/jQuery. A desktop runtime written in C++ with Qt allows it to run standalone for individual users, or the web application code may be deployed directly on a webserver for use by one or more users through their web browser. The software has the look and feel of a desktop application whatever the runtime environment, and vastly improves on pgAdmin III with updated user interface elements, multi-user/web deployment options, dashboards and a more modern design.

The application was designed as a pluggable framework that can easily be extended with plugin modules to provide additional functionality to support other software in the PostgreSQL ecosystem, or functionality of forks of PostgreSQL.

For more information, screenshots, documentation and downloads, please see the website at:

https://www.pgadmin.org/

pgAdmin 4 is also bundled in the PostgreSQL 9.6 installers from EDB at:

http://www.enterprisedb.com/products-services-training/pgdownload

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank all those involved in the design, implementation, testing and documentation of pgAdmin 4, estimated at well over 10,000 hours of effort over the last year. For more information about the project, please see the blog post at:

http://pgsnake.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/pgadmin-4-elephant-nears-finish-line.html

Finally, I'd like to thank the management at EDB for supporting this project and allowing me to enlist the efforts of over 15 employees from multiple teams. Without their support pgAdmin 4 would not exist today.

Dave Page, pgAdmin Project Lead

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Our maiden GTC Europe — which this week flows over several floors in Amsterdam’s glass-walled Passenger Terminal to the North Sea — is showcasing startups using GPUs from across the Continent in the latest edition of our Emerging Companies Summit.

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PostgreSQL 9.6, the latest version of the world's leading open source database, was released today by the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. This release will allow users to both scale up and scale out high performance database workloads. New features include parallel query, synchronous replication improvements, phrase search, and improvements to performance and usability, as well as many more features.

Scale Up with Parallel Query

Version 9.6 adds support for parallelizing some query operations, enabling utilization of several or all of the cores on a server to return query results faster. This release includes parallel sequential (table) scan, aggregation, and joins. Depending on details and available cores, parallelism can speed up big data queries by as much as 32 times faster.

"I migrated our entire genomics data platform - all 25 billion legacy MySQL rows of it - to a single Postgres database, leveraging the row compression abilities of the JSONB datatype, and the excellent GIN, BRIN, and B-tree indexing modes. Now with version 9.6, I expect to harness the parallel query functionality to allow even greater scalability for queries against our rather large tables," said Mike Sofen, Chief Database Architect, Synthetic Genomics.

Scale Out with Synchronous Replication and postgres_fdw

Two new options have been added to PostgreSQL's synchronous replication feature which allow it to be used to maintain consistent reads across database clusters. First, it now allows configuring groups of synchronous replicas. Second, the "remote_apply" mode creates a more consistent view of data across multiple nodes. These features support using built-in replication to maintain a set of "identical" nodes for load-balancing read workloads.

The PostgreSQL-to-PostgreSQL data federation driver, postgres_fdw, has new capabilities to execute work on remote servers. By "pushing down" sorts, joins, and batch data updates, users can distribute workload across multiple PostgreSQL servers. These features should soon be added to other FDW drivers.

"With the capabilities of remote JOIN, UPDATE and DELETE, Foreign Data Wrappers are now a complete solution for sharing data between other databases and PostgreSQL. For example, PostgreSQL can be used to handle data input going to two or more different kinds of databases," said Julyanto Sutandang, Director of Business Solutions at Equnix.

Better Text Search with Phrases

PostgreSQL's full text search feature now supports "phrase search." This lets users search for exact phrases, or for words within a specified proximity to each other, using fast GIN indexes. Combined with new features for fine-tuning text search options, PostgreSQL is the superior option for "hybrid search" which puts together relational, JSON, and full text searching.

Smoother, Faster, and Easier to Use

Thanks to feedback and testing by PostgreSQL users with high-volume production databases, the project has been able to improve many aspects of performance and usability in this release. Replication, aggregation, indexing, sorting, and stored procedures have all been made more efficient, and PostgreSQL now makes better use of resources with recent Linux kernels. Administration overhead for large tables and complex workloads was also reduced, especially through improvements to VACUUM.

Other Features

Version 9.6 has many other features added over the last year of development, among them:

• New system views and functions: pg_stat_wal_receiver, pg_visibility, pg_config, pg_blocking_pids, pg_notification_queue_usage
• Command progress reporting support
• Cascade support for installing extensions
• pg_basebackup concurrency and replication slot support
• Wait Event support
• View editing and crosstabs in psql
• User-defined expiration for old snapshots
• Index-only scans for partial indexes

Additionally, the project has changed and improved the API for binary hot backups. As such, developers of custom backup software for PostgreSQL should do additional testing around the new version. See the Release Notes for more detail.

Links

• Downloads
• Release Notes
• What's New in 9.6
• Press Kit