Conferences
Emacs Conference
The Emacs Conference is happening, it’s real, and it will take place at the end of this month in London. Check it out, and register at Emacs Conference Event Brite. …
Posts
PostgreSQL
HyperLogLog Unions
In the article from yesterday we talked about PostgreSQL HyperLogLog with some details. The real magic of that extension has been skimmed over though, and needs another …
PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL HyperLogLog
If you’ve been following along at home the newer statistics developments, you might have heard about this new State of The Art Cardinality Estimation Algorithm …
Projects
Playing with pgloader
While making progress with both Event Triggers and Extension Templates, I needed to make a little break. My current keeping sane mental exercise seems to mainly involve …
Emacs
Marking whole word
I’ve discovered recently another Emacs facility that I since then use several times a day, and I wonder how I did without it before: C-M-SPC runs the command …
debian
Live Upgrading PGQ
Some skytools related new today, it’s been a while. For those who where at my FOSDEM’s talk about Implementing High Availability you might have heard that I …
Conferences
Another Great FOSDEM
This year’s FOSDEM has been a great edition, in particular the FOSDEM PGDAY 2013 was a great way to begin a 3 days marathon of talking about PostgreSQL with people …
Conferences
A Sunday at FOSDEM
The previous article FOSDEM 2013 said to be careful with the PostgreSQL devroom schedule because one of my talks there might get swapped with a slot on the FOSDEM PGDay …
Conferences
FOSDEM 2013
This year again I’m going to FOSDEM, and to the extra special PostgreSQL FOSDEM day. It will be the first time that I’m going to be at the event for the full …
Projects
pgloader: what's next?
pgloader is a tool to help loading data into PostgreSQL, adding some error management to the COPY command. COPY is the fast way of loading data into PostgreSQL and is …
Projects
Automated Setup for pgloader
Another day, another migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL… or at least that’s how it feels sometimes. This time again I’ve been using some quite old …
Software Programming
Lost in scope
Thanks to Mickael on twitter I got to read an article about loosing scope with some common programming languages. As the blog article Lost in scope references functional …