hgimenez

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by hgimenez 3y ago
Always awesome to see folks moving Postgres forward. Congrats on the launch!
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An interview on what makes Postgres unique: extensions(craigkerstiens.com)
96 points by hgimenez 7y ago|14 comments
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by hgimenez 13y ago
(I work on Heroku Postgres) During the afformentioned "Sproc Hell", we were putting application logic in the database. Of course, this made perfect sense: it was secure because of bound params and strict typing, it was fast because it avoid
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by hgimenez 14y ago
Author of MoSQL, did you consider just using the MongoDB FTW instead? https://github.com/citusdata/mongo_fdw
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by hgimenez 14y ago
A little-known feature of Postgres' streaming replication is Synchronous Replication or 2-safe replication, available from version 9.1 onward. It allows you to specify that a given commit must be durable on a standby server prior to the ser
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by hgimenez 14y ago
Postgres, as of 9.0, has binary log streaming replication built in, truth. Slony ad other logical replication solutions out there are quite hard to set up and come with their gotchas. A rock solid one command (cli)/click (web) is a whole di
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by hgimenez 14y ago
Followers are automatically provisioned on a different AZ than their leaders.
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by hgimenez 14y ago
JSON is much more powerful than hstore. Not only can it store different JSON data types (boolean, numbers) but also you can store documents with multiple levels deep, which is not possible on the hstore type. Having said that, hstore is per
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by hgimenez 14y ago
recent awesome discovery: you can use Inconsolata in your google docs to paste in code samples and whatnot, available from the Add Fonts item in the font picker.
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by hgimenez 14y ago
No, neither of the starter tier plans (dev and basic) support PostGIS.
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by hgimenez 14y ago
> Also, I'd hope they will give a few months warning before flipping the switch completely, similar to how the hoptoad/airbrake switch went. Funny you should say that, as I was involved in the hotpoad/airbrake transition and am now invo
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by hgimenez 14y ago
highlight the file, then C-t
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by hgimenez 14y ago
Who's this Linux Torvalds fella?
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by hgimenez 14y ago
I really did not enjoy that.
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by hgimenez 15y ago
So awesome that this is on HN. I've been to this site and it was truly amazing and magical and all those things. Viva Venezuela, nojoda!
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by hgimenez 15y ago
I've had to develop a system like this before. We were a data centric, mostly SQL shop. The idea was that the BA, CEO, and other devs could all implement the system for different customers having slightly but sufficiently different business
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by hgimenez 15y ago
gandi.net and dnsimple.com
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by hgimenez 16y ago
Not sure what you mean by "safe" by default. Speed and performance have nothing to do with security, if that's what you mean. The reason that the default Postgres configuration does not perform well is that Postgres runs on a number of oper
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by hgimenez 16y ago
akephalos is also worth a look, as opposed to env.js. We've had much better support for things like jquery live() using (a slightly hacked) akephalos: http://robots.thoughtbot.com/post/1658763359/thoughtbot-and-...
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by hgimenez 16y ago
1. The Well Grounded Rubyist 2. Clean Code 3. Metaprogramming Ruby
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by hgimenez 17y ago
+1, vim hands down. Cross platform, powerful, lightweight, configurable, etc