PostgreSQL online course via BSD Magazine
I’m preparing another short course on PostgreSQL, this time online with written material.
plperl: which version of Perl?
plperl is a great extension for PostgreSQL that allows the execution of Perl 5 code within the database.
When your effort is publicly recognized (2)
I’ve already written about the importance of having a public recognition about everyone’s effort.
Improving the Perl 6 documentation
Today I hit the 200th commit on the Perl 6 Documentation project. Nothing special, but I’m glad to be part of such project.
Renaming a table in SQLite3 (and PostgreSQL)
Renaming a table is a very powerful feature of every database. SQLite3, as flexible as it is, has a feature to not cascade the renaming to foreign keys. Depending on how (and why) you use such feature, it can allow you for doing poweful things or ruin your database.
Luca Ferrari