Re: [GENERAL] Performance PLV8 vs PLPGSQL

2016-12-30 Thread Michael Sheaver
round postgres dependency issues. > > On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Michael Sheaver <mshea...@me.com > <mailto:mshea...@me.com>> wrote: > If you want an IDE, Jetbrains, the makers of great IDEs like IntelliJ, > PyCharm. and AppCode, among others, have recently co

Re: [GENERAL] Performance PLV8 vs PLPGSQL

2016-12-29 Thread Michael Sheaver
If you want an IDE, Jetbrains, the makers of great IDEs like IntelliJ, PyCharm. and AppCode, among others, have recently come out with what is arguably the BEST IDE for DBAs, DataGrip. It runs on most major platforms, and is so good that I have bitten the bullet and paid the yearly subscription

Re: [GENERAL] FreeBSD 10 => 11: Dump and reload your PostgreSQL database unless you like it broken

2016-12-07 Thread Michael Sheaver
I would like to echo the sentiment on collation and expand it to character sets in general. When issues with them come up, they do take an incredible amount of time and effort to resolve, and are one of my own biggest pain points when dealing with databases and datasets from other sources. Case

[GENERAL] "Fuzzy" Matches on Nicknames

2016-11-29 Thread Michael Sheaver
Greetings, I have two tables that are populated using large datasets from disparate external systems, and I am trying to match records by customer name between these two tables. I do not have any authoritative key, such as customerID or nationalID, by which I can match them up, and I have

Re: [GENERAL] Chante domain type - Postgres 9.2

2016-09-26 Thread Michael Sheaver
truth to the old adage that we must learn from our own mistakes. :) > On Sep 26, 2016, at 8:46 AM, Michael Sheaver <mshea...@me.com> wrote: > > I have done some research after converting my database from MySQL 5.6 to > PostgreSQL 9.6 (the best move I have ever made), and the

Re: [GENERAL] Chante domain type - Postgres 9.2

2016-09-26 Thread Michael Sheaver
I have done some research after converting my database from MySQL 5.6 to PostgreSQL 9.6 (the best move I have ever made), and the consensus I found can be summed up as: 1. Never, neve, never use VARCHAR or even CHAR 2. Always always, always use TEXT Unless, that is, you have some kind of edge

Re: [GENERAL] IDE for function/stored proc development.

2016-09-03 Thread Michael Sheaver
strategy to implement user requests. Gitkraken is simply awesome and my go-to GUI for VCS. An added benefit of this particular toolset is that they work equally well on Mac and Windows. Michael Sheaver mshea...@me.com > On Sep 3, 2016, at 9:28 AM, Mike Sofen <mso...@runbox.com> wrote:

[GENERAL] Build or Install pg_loader on Windows

2016-08-06 Thread Michael Sheaver
://stackoverflow.com/questions/38750898/build-or-install-pg-loader-on-windows <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38750898/build-or-install-pg-loader-on-windows> I didn't get a response there, so I do hope someone here might be able to help. Thanks, Michael Michael Sheaver