Chris EllisPostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source.Chris EllisI'm the host of PGSQL Phriday blogging event for October 2023. I've always been much more into the practical side of engineering. Caring far more about what I can build with tools, rather than which tool I'm using. The challenge for Friday, October 6th 2023, publish a post on your blog telling a story about what you (or your team, client) built with PostgreSQL and how PostgreSQL helped you deliver. I'd love to read about the weird and varied things that people are using PostgreSQL for. If you think your usecase is boring, I'm sure it will be of use to someone. Plus you can always focus more on the story and how PostgreSQL helped to deliver a project, or could have, or didn't!c9b6f59e-d9af-480d-995f-3b5dfcdff052https://intrbiz.com/post/postgresql/pgsql-phriday-013-usecases-and-why-postgresqlThu, 28 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris EllisAn elephant LED badge I created for PGDay UK, based from the logo I designed for the event and building on from a few other badges I've desgined and built.cb170b33-f77e-42d6-9f4d-3f6da1a4512dhttps://intrbiz.com/electronics/led-pcb-art/pgdayuk-elephant-led-badgeWed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris EllispgVis is a PostgreSQL extension for building simple visualisation dashboards with SQL. pgVis aims to make it easy to express data visualisations directly from SQL queries. Letting you quickly visualise some data for adhoc reports in psql or to build and share reporting dashboards in your organisation via pgvis-server. Either way, pgVis is designed to be PostgreSQL centric and to fit with your existing database workflows.cac8e05b-7349-4494-90bb-14c17bdc0fcbhttps://intrbiz.com/post/postgresql/pgvis-simple-visualisations-for-postgresqlThu, 18 May 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris EllisA little elephant LED badge I created as a homage to PostgreSQL. Following on from the Cat badge that I previously designed, I wanted to create something PostgreSQL related, so based the design around an elephant.9a689544-30ee-46c9-9dbb-048d26e2e9ebhttps://intrbiz.com/electronics/led-pcb-art/elephant-led-badgeSun, 19 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris EllisA little LED cat badge I made which was inspired by an Art Deco fuzed class objet d'art I saw. A simple project which uses a PCB as the main art and has a ATTiny to control the LEDs.9a689544-30ee-46c9-9dbb-048d26e2e9ebhttps://intrbiz.com/electronics/led-pcb-art/cat-led-badgeWed, 22 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris EllisLowclus is a Raspberry Pi CM4 based hybrid cluster server that I've designed and prototyped. Central to the concept is that a cluster of smaller more power efficient servers can function and perform as well as a traditional solution and be more cost effective.1bab37e9-5796-4295-b82b-483635db9195https://intrbiz.com/electronics/lowclus/aboutTue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris Ellishttps://intrbiz.com/pages/contacthttps://intrbiz.com/pages/contactTue, 21 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris EllisThe extensibility of PostgreSQL is one of it's biggest advantages, making it capable of so many wide and varied usecases. Something that I've leveraged a lot on various projects, so much so that you probably don't need another database. Ryan mentions that it was extensions like PostGIS and hstore which brought him to PostgreSQL initially. For me it was TSearch2 (yeh, it was around 2008, it later got merged into core), then taking advantage of PostGIS, PL/Proxy, PGQ, JSONB and more over the years.03ff312d-dd8f-400a-8241-73a00139ea81https://intrbiz.com/post/postgresql/postgresql-not-always-relationalThu, 2 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMTChris EllispgSchemata is a super simple tool to build and manage both simple and complex PostgreSQL databases schemas in a way that is easy to use with existing SCM systems. It takes a simple approach to storing the schema in individual files enabling easy code review, coupled with a simple build tool to compile and deploy a PostgreSQL database schema.1406d924-6a61-4150-b544-1a8418066f96https://intrbiz.com/open-source/pgschemataTue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMTChris EllisI figured for PGSQL Phriday 002, that telling the story from when I looked after an energy insights database would be the most interesting way to talk about PostgreSQL backups. During the course of the project we used three differing backup tools and approaches, mainly driven by the ongoing exponential growth of the system. I also want to cover my biggest learning from that project. Which was something David Steele said at pgconf.eu: Make recovery part of your everyday processes.74c0933e-3bff-4aa2-a8a6-c6c007791f5fhttps://intrbiz.com/post/postgresql/a-postgresql-backup-journeyFri, 4 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMTTue, 14 Apr 2026 22:52:30 GMThttps://intrbiz.com/feed/Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:52:30 GMT60