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Learning PostgreSQL from AI and JSON exploration: Part 2

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 02:05:00 -0400

This is the second part of the series I started on Learning PostgreSQL from AI and JSON exploration: Part 1. For this 2nd part, I decided to try gpt-oss the 14GB model which was just released in the past week. My first impression, "When will this ai shut up about its thinking process?". Phi4 on the other hand gave a bit of a narrative about how it came up with answers but it did not write a novel about it and it also seemed more personable, using "My and you" instead of a distanced "User wants to". However gpt-os did become less chatty with a bit of coaxing. So anyway personality wise I prefer phi4. That is not to say that Gpt-oss doesn't have some wow factor. It created perfect SQL each time. I did not need to correct it. One of the other neat features of this model which I haven't had time to explore is ability to have it do browser searches and other agentic like stuff.

Again for this size model, speed of answering with my crappy graphics card and processor was not bad, but it was noticeably slower than Phi4. Given the impressive accuracy, I didn't mind too much and I suspect can be improved by tweaking some of its settings.

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http extension for windows updated to include PostgreSQL18 64-bit

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 23:03:00 -0400

Updated October 16th, 2025 64-bit package for PostgreSQL 18 http extension v1.7.0 release.

For those folks on windows who want to do http gets and posts directly from your PostgreSQL server, we've made binaries for the http extension for PostgreSQL Windows.

These are designed to work with PostgreSQL EDB windows distributions.

If you have PostGIS already installed, many of these files you will also already have since things like the libcurl and PCRE are also packaged with PostGIS.

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PG 17 new random functions

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 22:45:00 -0500

Have you ever wanted to get a random integer between 1 and 10 and been a little annoyed the slightly cryptic code you had to write in PostgreSQL? PostgreSQL 17 random functions make that simpler. Sometimes it's the small changes that bring the most joy.

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PostgreSQL 17 64-bit for Windows FDWs

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Mon, 23 Dec 2024 03:50:00 -0500

We are pleased to provide binaries for file_textarray_fdw and odbc_fdw for PostgreSQL 17 Windows 64-bit.

To use these, copy the files into your PostgreSQL 17 Windows 64-bit install folders in same named folders and then run CREATE EXTENSION as usual in the databases of your choice. More details in the packaged README.txt

These were compiled against PostgreSQL 17.2 using msys2 / mingw64 and tested against PostgreSQL 17.2 EDB windows distribution.

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PostgreSQL 16 64-bit for Windows FDWs

nospam@example.com (Leo Hsu and Regina Obe) — Sun, 03 Sep 2023 00:13:00 -0400

We are pleased to provide binaries for file_textarray_fdw and odbc_fdw for PostgreSQL 16 Windows 64-bit.

To use these, copy the files into your PostgreSQL 16 Windows 64-bit install folders in same named folders and then run CREATE EXTENSION as usual in the databases of your choice. More details in the packaged README.txt

These were compiled against PostgreSQL 16rc1, but should work fine against EDB PostgreSQL 16beta3.

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