Today another great patch, committed by Tom Lane. This patch was written by Martin Pihlak (with some edits by Tom).
Waiting for 8.4 – pl/PgSQL RAISE
Today we have one new feature – extension of plpgsql's RAISE command.
Prepared statements gotcha
Friend from my previous employer told me that plans of execution of prepared statement, and the same statement run “as it" are different.
Well, I checked and this is what I found (it's not shocking, it's actually quite obvious, but You have to think about it for a while to “get it").
Waiting for 8.4 – psql vs. tabs + wrapped output
Today I will describe 2 new patches which modify psql:
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MySQL’s timestamp in PostgreSQL
MySQL has this nifty/annoying feature/bug of special data type “TIMESTAMP". It is like a DATETIME, but it gets automatically updated whenever you modify the row.
I'll try to add the same feature to PostgreSQL.
“ERROR: operator does not exist: integer = text” how to fix it?
PostgreSQL 8.3 brought us many great new features. Among them were concurrent autovacuum, enums, tsearch in core.
On of the changes though made a lot of people dislike 8.3. It was removal of implicit casts.
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Waiting for 8.4 – pg_conf_load_time, time-related generate_series and enum values in \dT+
3 new functionalities from 3 people:
Waiting for 8.4 – RETURN QUERY EXECUTE and cursor_tuple_fraction
Today another two new additions to PostgreSQL – as You can see may commit-fest seems to work pretty good 🙂
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Waiting for 8.4 – \o and \d+ in psql
Today, we have 2 new changes in psql. One of them is not actually new feature, but I decided to write about it anyway, because of its implications.
What does “success” mean to You?
Friend from my previous job asked this question: “What does success mean to You"?
One of the answers that I remember he got was:
“Get “brand recognition" of my name, and get a job with monthly salary of 40,000 PLN."
(I'm not sure if “brand recognition" is correct phrase – I mean that he wanted his name/person to be well known among people working in the same area as he is.
40,000 PLN – to give some perspective, is a bit over 10% of value of new Jaguar XK convertible (not XKR).
I would like to ask You, to tell me what does “success" mean to You. What would You have to achieve to feel successful.