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Archive for February, 2011

Pentabarf - exporting the schedule

Monday, February 28th, 2011

When exporting a Pentabarf schedule, your talks must be accepted and reconfirmed in order to appear on in the schedule. Not just accepted.
In this article, we assume your conference id = 7. Adjust to suit your situation.
This query gives you a list of the accepted talks:

SELECT event_id FROM event WHERE conference_id […]

NOTE TO SELF

Saturday, February 26th, 2011

Name based virtual hosts are quite possible with SSL if you use SNI.
A fairly recent version of OpenSSL is required for that, >= 0.9.8.

PGCon 2011 - schedule delayed

Monday, February 21st, 2011

On Saturday, I tweeted that the schedule for PGCon 2011 would be released. I was wrong. We are having a hard time choosing from amongst all the talks we have received. Choice is a fine problem to have, but we apologize for the delay.
All submitters have been emailed about this delay. […]

Copying to tape, missed something….

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

I recently wrote about copying jobs with a very good backup tool. My goal was to keep copies of the backups on both disk and tape. Since then, I started playing around with a little webpage to keep tabs on what’s in my tape libary. Today I noticed a little problem. I have backups from 75 days ago that are waiting to be copied to tape.

I’ll just let you think about why this happened. Yesterday, this queue held jobs that were about 16 hours old. How did this old job get into the queue?

Carved in stone

Wednesday, February 9th, 2011

This was said by me on IRC today:

You say ‘ignoring a large user base’ as if there is something wrong with that.

PostgreSQL has a long history of not catering to the masses. This is what makes it such a great tool.

Only well thought out and well conceived features go into PostgreSQL.

And someone else said: […]