Conferences
Prêt pour CHAR(11) ?
La semaine prochaine déjà se tient CHAR(11), la conférence spécialisée sur le Clustering, la Haute Disponibilité et la Réplication avec PostgreSQL. C’est en Europe, …
Getting more out of PostgreSQL
Notes on SQL technique, data modeling, and PostgreSQL internals — from the author of The Art of PostgreSQL. New articles are built on the free Lab so you can run every query yourself.
debian
Multi-Version support for Extensions
We still have this problem to solve with extensions and their packaging. How to best organize things so that your extension is compatible with before 9.1 and 9.1 and …
Emacs
Don't be afraid of 'cl
In this blog article, you’re shown a quite long function that loop through your buffers to find out if any of them is associated with a file whose full name …
Conferences
Back from Ottawa, preparing for Cambridge
While Magnus is all about PG Conf EU already, you have to realize we’re just landed back from PG Con in Ottawa. My next stop in the annual conferences is CHAR 11, …
Emacs
el-get 2.2
We’ve spotted a little too late for our own taste a discrepancy in the source tree: a work in progress patch landed in git just before to release el-get stable. So …
Emacs
el-get 2.1
Current el-get status is stable, ready for daily use and packed with extra features that make life easier. There are some more things we could do, as always, but they …
PostgreSQL
Preparing for PGCON
It’s this time of the year again, the main international PostgreSQL Conference is next week in Ottawa, Canada. If previous years are any indication, this will be …
Software Programming
Mailq modeline display
If you’ve not been following along, you might have missed it: it appears to me that even today, in 2011, mail systems work much better when setup the old way. …
PostgreSQL
Tables and Views dependencies
Let’s say you need to ALTER TABLE foo ALTER COLUMN bar TYPE bigint;, and PostgreSQL is helpfully telling you that no you can’t because such and such views …
Projects
Extension module_pathname and .sql.in
While currently too busy at work to deliver much Open Source contributions, let’s debunk an old habit of PostgreSQL extension authors. It’s all down to copy …
Emacs
Emacs and PostgreSQL, PL line numbering
A while ago I’ve been fixing and publishing pgsql-linum-format separately. That allows to number PL/whatever code lines when editing from Emacs, and it’s …
Projects
Emacs Kicker
Following up on the very popular emacs-starter-kit, I’m now proposing the emacs-kicker. It’s about the .emacs file you’ve seen in older posts here, …