February 2011

Pentabarf – exporting the schedule

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 = 7 AND event_state = ‘accepted’; This query refines the data so you get the accepted talks which will […]

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PGCon 2011 – schedule delayed

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. The Call For Papers timetable has this past Saturday as the deadline for us to notify the submitters. We apoligized to

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Copying to tape, missed something….

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?

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Carved in stone

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: those 3 statements should be carved to stone :) Done. Later, I added: Features get

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