PostgreSQL negative PID
PostgreSQL uses a simple trick to recognize if the server has started in single-user mode.
An example of PostgreSQL rules: updating pg_settings
Rules are a powerful mechanism by which PostgreSQL allows a statement to be transformed into another. And PostgreSQL itself does use rules in order to make your life easier.
Is it me writing in Python?
I never wrote a row of Python, until…
Emacs Org-mode and the not exported caption problem
Org-mode is an amazing tool I use every day for pretty much a lot of stuff. In these day I’ve written technical documents in org, but due to a fault of mine, every code snippet was without the appropriate caption. It took me a while to find out what I was missing…
pgxnclient and beta version
pgxnclient is a wonderful cpan like tool for the PGXN extension network. Unlickily, the client cannot handle PostgreSQL beta version, so I submitted a really small patch to fix the issue.
Luca Ferrari