Wednesday, March 8, 2023

Which is worse when working on production databases? Being drunk or tired?

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I have decided to do a series of mini-articles on human factors in database operations.   This is the first, and covers fatigue. In my talk ...
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Friday, March 3, 2023

The Coming Storm: Geopolitics and PostgreSQL in a Changing World

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 At PGConf India, I watched Bruce Momjian's excellent talk  Future Postgres Challenges .  This talk discusses technical, technological, ...
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Sunday, May 26, 2019

Table Inheritance: What's it Good For?

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Table inheritance is one of the most misunderstood -- and powerful -- features of PostgreSQL.  With it, certain kinds of hard problems becom...
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Friday, September 21, 2018

PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond Talk (PGConf Russia 2018)

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It came out a while ago but I haven't promoted it much yet. This is the recorded version of the PostgreSQL at 20TB and Beyond tal...
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Thoughts on the Code of Conduct Controversy

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My overall perspective here is that the PostgreSQL community needs a code of conduct, and one which allows the committee to act in some case...
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Wednesday, August 9, 2017

On Contempt Culture, a Reply to Aurynn Shaw

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I saw an interesting presentation recorded and delivered on LinkedIn on contempt culture by Aurynn Shaw, delivered this year at PyCon.  I ha...
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Monday, February 13, 2017

PostgreSQL at 10TB and Beyond Recorded Talk

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The PostgreSQL at 10 TB And Beyond talk has now been released on Youtube. Feel free to watch.  For the folks seeing this on Planet Perl Iro...