Conferences
Back from FOSDEM
This year we were in the main building of the conference, and apparently the booth went very well, solding lots of PostgreSQL merchandise etc. I had the pleasure to once …
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.
Conferences
Going to FOSDEM
A quick blog entry to say that yes: And I will even do my Extension’s talk which had a success at pgday.eu. The talk will be updated to include the last …
Projects
Starting afresh with el-get
It so happens that a colleague of mine wanted to start using Emacs but couldn’t get to it. He insists on having proper color themes in all applications and some …
debian
el-get 1.1, with 174 recipes
Yes, you read it well, el-get currently features 174 recipes, and is now reaching the 1.1 release. The reason for this release is mainly that I have two big chunks of …
PostgreSQL
Dynamic Triggers in PLpgSQL
You certainly know that implementing dynamic triggers in PLpgSQL is impossible. But I had a very bad night, being up from as soon as 3:30 am today, so that when a …
PostgreSQL
pg_basebackup
Hannu just gave me a good idea in this email on -hackers, proposing that pg_basebackup should get the xlog files again and again in a loop for the whole duration of the …
Projects
Introducing Extensions
After reading Simon’s blog post, I can’t help but try to give some details about what it is exactly that I’m working on. As he said, there are several …
PostgreSQL
Extensions: writing a patch for PostgreSQL
These days, thanks to my community oriented job, I’m working full time on a PostgreSQL patch to terminate basic support for extending SQL. First thing I want to …
PostgreSQL
Date puzzle for starters
The PostgreSQL IRC channel is a good place to be, for all the very good help you can get there, because people are always wanting to remain helpful, because of the …
PostgreSQL
Resuming work on Extensions, first little step
Yeah I’m back on working on my part of the extension thing in PostgreSQL. First step is a little one, but as it has public consequences, I figured I’d talk …
Projects
el-get reaches 1.0
It’s been a week since the last commits in the el-get repository, and those were all about fixing and adding recipes, and about notifications. Nothing like core …
Emacs
Regexp performances and Finite Automata
The major reason why I dislike perl so much, and ruby too, and the thing I’d want different in the Emacs Lisp API so far is how they set developers mind into using …