And maybe not on the wall, but instead in your SQLz, eating your data.
But a bit more seriously. Ever since PostgreSQL 8.4 we have window functions, but still I see people which do not know it or are wary to use it.
That's why I decided to write a piece on window functions. How they work and what they can be used for.
Some people are afraid of triggers.
Reasons for this are not really understandable for me, but I guess it stems from the fact that these are usually application developers, and not database admins. Or they encountered some kind of problem with triggers, and now they tend to think that triggers are inherently evil.
But they are not.
As virtually anything, triggers have some benefits, and some drawbacks. With a bit of thinking you can use them to do really cool things. But first you have to understand what exactly trigger is, how it works, and when to use which kind.
Continue reading How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Triggers
Today there were some changes on explain.depesz.com – a bugfix, and functionality improvement.
Last year I got cake in shape of Jameson cake. This year, I was surprised by cake being an idea of my dream-car Mitsubishi EVO:
It was fully edible (including 100% chocolate tires, and spoiler), and very good.
To the potential nay-sayers: I know it's not really shape of Evo. But it had “three diamonds" on both front and back, clearly visible “Evo" signs, so it definitely counts 🙂