Projects
el-get and dim-switch-window status update
Thanks to you readers of Planet Emacsen taking the time to try those pieces of emacs lisp found in my blog, and also the time to comment on them, some bugs have been …
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.
PostgreSQL
Editing constants in constraints
We’re using constants in some constraints here, for example in cases where several servers are replicating to the same federating one: each origin server has his …
Projects
debian packaging PostgreSQL extensions
In trying to help an extension debian packaging effort, I’ve once again proposed to handle it. That’s because I now begin to know how to do it, as you can see …
PostgreSQL
Querying the Catalog to plan an upgrade
Some user on IRC was reading the releases notes in order to plan for a minor upgrade of his 8.3.3 installation, and was puzzled about potential needs for rebuilding GIST …
debian
el-get
I’ve been using emacs for a long time, and a long time it took me to consider learning Emacs Lisp. Before that, I didn’t trust my level of understanding …
PostgreSQL
Database Virtual Machines
Today I’m being told once again about SQLite as an embedded database software. That one ain’t a database server but a software library that you can use …
PostgreSQL
Partitioning: relation size per “group”
This time, we are trying to figure out where is the bulk of the data on disk. The trick is that we’re using DDL partitioning, but we want a “nice” view of size per …
Projects
dim-switch-window.el: fixes
Thanks to amazing readers of planet emacsen, two annoyances of switch-window.el have already been fixed! The first is that handling of C-g isn’t exactly an option …
Projects
dim-switch-window.el
So it’s Sunday and I’m thinking I’ll get into el-get sometime later. Now is the time to present dim-switch-window.el which implements a visual C-x o. I …
Software Programming
ClusterSSH gets dsh support
If you don’t know about ClusterSSH, it’s a project that builds on M-x term and ssh to offer a nice and simple way to open remote terminals. It’s …
debian
Emacs and PostgreSQL
Those are my two all times favorite Open Source Software. Or Free Software in the GNU sense of the world, as both the BSD and the GPL are labeled free there. Even if I …
PostgreSQL
Background writers
There’s currently a thread on hackers about bg worker: overview and a series of 6 patches. Thanks a lot Markus! This is all about generalizing a concept already in …