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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Wonder if PostgreSQL will run on this?

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Early three-monitor desktop setup, with 6 bit EBCDIC toggle switch input.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Prague by night. (Excuse the fingers, it was 7am in the morning body time after 15 hours of flights.)

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Maybe I should keep some of the log files for old times' sake

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I think I could probably get rid of some of these directories...

A listing of directories in the "postgres" user's directory, some dating back a decade or so.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

"Challenge accepted". www.linkedin.com/help/linkedi...

Unless you turn the switch off, Linkedin will feed your data to the Hallucination Slop Machine.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Hmm, this "typing out file management tasks" thing sounds like a nifty new innovation. Surprised it's never been tried before.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Damn, I had almost forgotten how much fun it is writing actual SQL queries...

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Similarly, FTP rsync access is also no longer available.

postgresql.org

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

In case anyone's wondering what's up with the PostgreSQL Git repository and "fatal: Could not read from remote repository" messages in the past couple of days, apparently the git:// protocol support has been deactivated (and might be withdrawn entirely), so you'll likely need to switch to https.

postgresql.org

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

LinkedIn users not keen on it harvesting their data and content for the hallucination machine might want to disable the below setting... www.linkedin.com/mypreference...

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

So that's how wireless LAN packets are delivered.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Never even occurred to me to check if "which" takes any options.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Good to see more PostgreSQL channels moving away from the social media site formerly known as Twitter. www.postgresql.eu/news/social-...

postgresql.eu

Social Media Channels - PostgreSQL Europe

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Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 31/01/2025

Programming languages: "We are just a way to operate computers in a way that makes sense to humans." Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"

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PgPedia @pgpedia.info · 27/01/2025

On this day in PostgreSQL, 25 years ago: "DISTINCT ON refactored and can accept multiple expressions" pgpedia.info/on-this-day-...

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2000-01-27: DISTINCT ON refactored and can accept multiple expressions

On January 27th, 2000, DISTINCT ON was refactored to accept multiple expressions

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Another one for the collection :)

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PgPedia @pgpedia.info · 19/01/2025

On this day in PostgreSQL, 25 years ago: handling of NULL constraint conditions fixed pgpedia.info/on-this-day-...

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2000-01-19: Fix handling of NULL constraint conditions

On January 19th, 2000, handling of NULL constraint conditions was improved

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Engaging in another round of Obsolete Tech Disposal. Incredibly, I have a purchaser for this ca. 2009-era motherboard.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Don't think I need that any more...

Screenshot of code diff output showing removal of markup specific to the late and unlamented Internet Explorer 6.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I always knew there was a reason why I don't have my web app execute user-provided referer strings in a shell session.

Screenshot showing dubious user agent referer string

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Jonathan Markwell @jot.is · 20/11/2024

I've wasted too much time trying to do things in No SQL document databases like Mongo. Would have been far better to default to PostgresSQL / SQLite. If one thing you build turns out to be better suited to something else you can change it later. More difficult to go the other way. Just use SQL.

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Fond memories of the time when XML databases were the next thing...

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Ian Barwick @ianbarwick.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Tap tap, is this thing still working?

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