COBOL with Postgres

Running fast queries against large analytics tables is one of the hallmark features of Crunchy Data Warehouse. In this video: - a Iceberg file is created from a flat file - data is queried and rolled up by day, taking 38ms - the same rollup is done with the same data in

I third that recommendation

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I gotta say I am _really_ digging Neovim (with the Lazyvim plugins).

TIL you can set up a "read replica" Citus cluster with citus.use_secondary_nodes=always on the standby coordinator, but there's no automatic routing for read-only traffic.  That needs to be done by the app.

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AWS Deleted all data despite redundancy, backup, dead man’s switch. This is why you need to keep all your data offline. Never trust hosting company for your backups. seuros.com/blog/aws-delet…

Good one

Great post by Elizabeth Garrett Christensen

Haven't needed to setup a Windows computer for a while. Microsoft now requires you to have an online account? And I have to install the "Microsoft 365 Copilot" app to login. Website is not enough and I need to download their website to my phone? Enishittification hard mode.

this is a great paper from snowflake, tl:dr; people (and tools) write very bad #SQL, my favorite which I did all the time is using joins on text field vldb.org/pvldb/vol18/p5…

Getting things going at #pgconfbr 2025

Nice to see more and more people are getting this. Postgres’ flexibility and breadth of use cases it makes simpler is amazing.

#pgconfbr another great one

Desafios de Rodar PostgreSQL em Ambientes Críticos no Kubernetes (Roberto Mello) #pgconfbr

Great AI talk by Bruce at #pgconfbr

Great news

If you use NPM in any capacity, you need to immediately perform a deep audit on your dependencies and probably revert to your previous lock file if you updated recently.

PostgreSQL 18 released with lots of improvements and new features. You know what to do! postgresql.org/about/news/pos…