October 2009
10 posts
We get a lot of CSVs and have to do transforms on them before putting them into our database. Sometimes it’s a lot of JOINed data that takes a long time to finish, and I want to make sure I’m not going to lock the table beyond a production day window.
So I spend an extra 15 minutes writing some code into a PL/PgSQL function to track the rate of INSERTs in some looped-over SELECTs. I...
New Year
man this is weird. pretty soon we're going to be saying 'twenty-ten'
yeah
oh noes...people won't be able to wear those dorky 200_ glasses anymore. "shucks"
well, they still could if they have shark eyes