On 8th of November, Tom Lane committed patch, which doesn't provide any new features, but removes one of the more annoying footguns in PostgreSQL: Prevent invoking I/O conversion casts via functional/attribute notation.   PG 8.4 added a built-in feature for casting pretty much ...

I had today a very weird situation. From my laptop, I ssh to another system, and from there to yet another. On this final system I noticed that vim starts relatively slow. i.e. this command: time vim -u /dev/null -c ":q" returned time in ...

I was lately writing some program for a client of mine, which used UPC codes matching. Since the codes are given in various ways, there was decision to pad the codes with leading zeros - up to 12 characters. The code has ...