{"id":3778,"date":"2012-03-16T12:51:10","date_gmt":"2012-03-16T20:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/?p=3778"},"modified":"2012-03-26T02:50:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-26T10:50:52","slug":"gsoc-acceptance-hstore-in-heroku-inheritance-sharding-wikimedia-womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/16\/gsoc-acceptance-hstore-in-heroku-inheritance-sharding-wikimedia-womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"GSoC Acceptance, Hstore in Heroku, Inheritance &#038; Sharding, Wikimedia Women&#8217;s History Month Editathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Friday!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gsoc_postgres_in\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-melange.com\/gsoc\/accepted_orgs\/google\/gsoc2012\">PostgreSQL was accepted into the 2012 Google Summer of Code<\/a> program! 180 organizations were accepted, and as they fill out their contact information, they are becoming visible on the GSoC website.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.postgresql.org\/wiki\/GSoC_2012\">Students, please apply<\/a>! Mentors, please let us know you want to mentor! Josh Berkus and Thom Brown are our admins this year, and I&#8217;m helping out with communication. <\/p>\n<p>Heroku Postgres <a href=\"https:\/\/postgres.heroku.com\/blog\/past\/2012\/3\/14\/introducing_keyvalue_data_storage_in_heroku_postgres\/\">announced their first supported extension<\/a>: <code><a href=\"http:\/\/www.postgresql.org\/docs\/9.1\/static\/hstore.html\">hstore<\/a><\/code>. After the announcement, a few people pinged me with questions, so I&#8217;m going to work on a blog post this weekend having a look at <code>hstore<\/code> and <code>json<\/code> support<\/p>\n<p>I wrote a short blog post about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/14\/inheritance-and-sharding-with-postgres\/\">inheritance and sharding<\/a>. I&#8217;m advising people just to not do that, since inheritance doesn&#8217;t go so well with multi-node architectures. <\/p>\n<p>This is Women&#8217;s History Month, and there&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wikipedia:Meetup\/San_Francisco_WikiWomen%27s_Edit-a-Thon\">wiki edit-a-thon at the Wikimedia offices in San Francisco<\/a> from 1-5pm. I&#8217;ll be there!<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/postgresopen.org\">Postgres Open<\/a> site is being worked on. New logo and website refresh now visible. Expect awesomeness next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"gsoc_postgres_in\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/gsoc_postgres_in.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMy weekly review of news relevant to Postgres, open source community and me: GSoC Acceptance, Hstore in Heroku, Inheritance &#038; Sharding, Wikimedia Women&#8217;s History Month Editathon<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.google-melange.com\/gsoc\/accepted_orgs\/google\/gsoc2012\">PostgreSQL was accepted into the 2012 Google Summer of Code<\/a> program! 180 organizations were accepted, and as they fill out their contact information, they are becoming visible on the GSoC website.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wiki.postgresql.org\/wiki\/GSoC_2012\">Students, please apply<\/a>! Mentors, please let us know you want to mentor! Josh Berkus and Thom Brown are our admins this year, and I&#8217;m helping out with communication.  &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/2012\/03\/16\/gsoc-acceptance-hstore-in-heroku-inheritance-sharding-wikimedia-womens-history-month\/\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[97,9],"tags":[647],"class_list":["post-3778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postgres","category-postgresql","tag-postgres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3778"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3904,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3778\/revisions\/3904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chesnok.com\/daily\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}