Emacs
Escreen integration
After having used elscreen for a long time, I’m now a very happy user of escreen, which feels much better integrated and allows to have one ring of recently visited …
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.
Emacs
Follow-up on dim:mailrc-add-entry
The function didn’t allow for using more than one mailrc file, which isn’t a good idea, so I’ve just added that. Oh and for gnus integration what I need …
Emacs
Improving ~/.mailrc usage
So I’ve been adviced to use ~/.mailrc for keeping a basic address book in Emacs, for use within gnus for example. I had to resort to the manual to find out how to …
Projects
hstore-new & preprepare reach debian too
It seems like debian developers are back from annual conference and holiday, so they have had a look at the NEW queue and processed the packages in there. Two of them …
Software Programming
Some emacs nifties
First, here’s a way to insert at current position the last message printed into the minibuffer… well not exactly, in *Messages* buffer in fact. I was tired …
Projects
prefix 1.0~rc2 in debian testing
At long last, here it is. With binary versions both for postgresal-8.3 and postgresal-8.4! Unfortunately my other packaging efforts are still waiting on the NEW queue, …
Projects
prefix 1.0~rc2-1
I’ve been having problem with building both postgresql-8.3-prefix and postgresql-8.4-prefix debian packages from the same source package, and fixing the packaging …
Projects
prefix extension reaches 1.0 (rc1)
At long last, after millions and millions of queries just here at work and some more in other places, the prefix project is reaching 1.0 milestone. The release candidate …
PostgreSQL
PgCon 2009
I can’t really compare PgCon 2009 with previous years versions, last time I enjoyed the event it was in 2006, in Toronto. But still I found the experience to be a …
Projects
Prepared Statements and pgbouncer
On the performance mailing list, a recent thread drew my attention. It devired to be about using a connection pool software and prepared statements in order to increase …
PostgreSQL
Skytools 3.0 reaches alpha1
It’s time for Skytools news again! First, we did improve documentation of current stable branch with hosting high level presentations and tutorials on the …
Projects
Prefix GiST index now in 8.1
The prefix project is about matching a literal against prefixes in your table, the typical example being a telecom routing table. Thanks to the excellent work around …