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  1. Implementing Multi-Table Full Text Search with Postgres in Rails

    Easily searching across an application’s data is a pervasive need. If you are...

    Derek Prior and Caleb Hearth
    August 16, 2013
    • Web
    • Postgres
    • Rails
  2. How to Create Postgres Indexes Concurrently in ActiveRecord Migrations

    By default, Postgres locks writes (but not reads) to a table while creating...

    Dan Croak
    July 30, 2013
    • Web
    • Postgres
    • Ruby
  3. The Perils of Uniqueness Validations

    Your Rails application probably makes use of uniqueness validations in...

    Derek Prior
    July 17, 2013
    • Web
    • Rails
    • Postgres
  4. Migrating Data from an Upgraded Postgres

    I recently upgraded Postgres on my development machine from 9.1.4 to 9.2.1. ...

    Josh Clayton
    October 16, 2012
    • Web
    • Postgres
  5. Trail Map

    How do I learn Ruby on Rails? Vim? Test-Driven Development? Someone asks...

    Dan Croak
    May 29, 2012
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  6. Global min_messages

    How to reduce postgres output noise.

    Dan Croak
    April 2, 2012
    • Web
    • Postgres
    • Rails
  7. The Durable Document Store You Didn't Know You Had, But Did

    As it turns out, PostgreSQL has a number of ways of storing loosely...

    Harold Giménez
    December 6, 2011
    • Web
    • Postgres
  8. See you at PostgreSQL West

    Come say hi if you are at postgresql west conference.

    Harold Giménez
    September 1, 2011
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  9. How To Back Up A Heroku Production Database To Staging

    Backup a production Heroku Postgres database to a staging environment.

    Dan Croak
    August 18, 2011
    • Web
    • Heroku
    • Postgres
  10. PostgreSQL Conf East

    This following week, PostgreSQL Conf East will take place in New York City....

    Harold Giménez
    March 15, 2011
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