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Quicklisp and debian
Common Lisp users are very happy to use Quicklisp when it comes to downloading and maintaining dependencies between their own code and the librairies it is using.
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Software Programming
My First Slashdot Effect
Thanks to the Postgres Weekly issue #89 and a post to Hacker News front page (see Pgloader: A High-speed PostgreSQL Swiss Army Knife, Written in Lisp it well seems that I …
Software Programming
New release: pgloader 3.2
PostgreSQL comes with an awesome bulk copy protocol and tooling best known as the COPY and \copy commands. Being a transactional system, PostgreSQL COPY implementation …
Software Programming
Turn your PostgreSQL queries into Charts
Earlier this year we did compare compare Aggregating NBA data, PostgreSQL vs MongoDB then talked about PostgreSQL, Aggregates and histograms where we even produced a nice …
Projects
Why is pgloader so much faster?
pgloader loads data into PostgreSQL. The new version is stable enough nowadays that it’s soon to be released, the last piece of the 3.1.0 puzzle being full debian …
Projects
Import fixed width data with pgloader
A long time ago we talked about how to Import fixed width data with pgloader, following up on other stories still online at Postgres OnLine Journal and on David …
Projects
A Worthwile Micro Optimisation
In our previous article about Loading Geolocation Data, we did load some data into PostgreSQL and saw the quite noticable impact of a user transformation. As it happens, …
Projects
Loading Geolocation Data
As I’ve been mentionning in the past already, I’m currently rewriting pgloader from scratch in Common Lisp. In terms of technical debt that’s akin to …
Software Programming
Emacs Muse meets Common Lisp
This blog of mine is written in the very good Emacs Muse format, that I find much more friendly to writing articles than both org-mode and markdown-mode that I both use …
Software Programming
from Parsing to Compiling
Last week came with two bank holidays in a row, and I took the opportunity to design a command language for pgloader. While doing that, I unexpectedly stumbled accross a …
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. …
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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 …