I’ve written already a blog post “Building PostgreSQL with MSYS2 and MinGW under Windows” a year ago. But this time I want to show you two important things: cross compiling (x86, x64) using the same run-time; compiling with the latest OpenSSL support. That’s true nowadays you won’t find binaries or installations of PostgreSQL without OpenSSL […]

Years ago Years ago I wrote the post describing how to implement 1-to-1 relationship in PostgreSQL. The trick was simple and obvious: You put a unique constraint on a referenced column and you’re fine. But then one of the readers noticed, that this is the 1-to-(0..1) relationship, not a true 1-to-1. And he was absolutely […]

Pavel Stehule recently wrote the post “Don’t use SQL keywords as PLpgSQL variable names” describing the situation when internal stored routine variable names match PostgreSQL keywords. But the problem is not only in keywords. Consider: Output: OK, at least we have no hidden error like in Pavel’s case. Let’s try to fix it specifying an […]

Once I received a mail with question: Can you tell me why I can’t select the column `references`? =# \d v_table_relation View “public.v_table_relation” Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default ————+————————————-+———–+———-+——— schema | information_schema.sql_identifier | | | table | information_schema.sql_identifier | | | columns | information_schema.sql_identifier[] | | | references | jsonb[] | […]

Preface There are several ways of building PostgreSQL under Windows. Official manual stands using Visual Studio is the simplest one, wiki describes how to use mingw and mingw-w64. As for me, using new MSYS2 building platform for Windows is a bless. With its help not only PostgreSQL sources are built smoothly, but even extensions are […]