[GENERAL] Please say it isn't so

makes a query to it. Why should Postgres care which init system started it? I hope you can free Postgres of init-specific code, and if for some reason you can't do that, at least don't recommend init-specific code. Thanks, SteveT Steve Litt July 2017 featured book: Quit Joblessness: Start Your

Re: [GENERAL] browser interface to forums please?

and put in a password just to see if there's anything new? With mailing lists, the information comes to you, instead of making you go out to it. SteveT Steve Litt April 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques

Re: [GENERAL] browser interface to forums please?

pted me to write an essay, for which I'll provide the URL when it's finished. Bottom line though, don't mess with success. SteveT Steve Litt March 2017 featured book: Troubleshooting: Why Bother? http://www.troubleshooters.com/twb -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.o

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for an online mentor

On Thu, 8 Dec 2016 19:19:27 -0500 Metare Solve wrote: > Sorry, I got on so many lists yesterday. I'm really not that dense. > > I have absolutely no language programming skills and it is very very > frustrating. I can HTML and that's it. I desperately want to develop >

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for an online mentor

object > oriented, and functional languages. I think she could learn SQL concurrently with Python, as long as she completely understands that they don't do anything the same way as each other, and they're not even for the same purpose. SteveT Steve Litt November 2016 featured book: Quit Jobless

Re: [GENERAL] Let's Do the CoC Right

On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:27 + Geoff Winkless <pgsqlad...@geoff.dj> wrote: > On 23 January 2016 at 21:59, Steve Litt <sl...@troubleshooters.com> > wrote: > > I'm reminded of a person on a computer on a no-Internet-connection > > LAN saying that everyone needs e

Re: [GENERAL] Let's Do the CoC Right

sical or verbal > abuse, Yeah, if everyone else does. But a code of conduct is actually a good idea, because there are a lot of vicious, worthless clowns out there who like to issue gratuitous insults. > because it does not apply to this forum. False. SteveT Steve Litt

Re: [GENERAL] Let's Do the CoC Right

ux conference". Women are the minority at these conferences, yet many more hands reach out and grab them. We all need the necessary protection, which is not necessarily equal protection, because some of us are subjected to much more harassment. And I think we all need to walk a mile in othe

Re: [GENERAL] Let's Do the CoC Right

y), the CoC should ban negative statements about that crap. [1] I'm not faulting your example. Your example is relevant to the discussion. I'm faulting a hypothetical person who comes on the list and says that, apropos to nothing. SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of T

Re: [GENERAL] Let's Do the CoC Right

tries where homosexuality is punishable by death. Speaking up is a privilege often reserved for the in crowd and the revolutionary. SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 -- Sent via pgsql-general ma

Re: [GENERAL] CoC [Final]

orcement. On the other hand, "patterns of behaviour which the majority of the core team consider to be harassment" is crystal clear. What would happen if you just dropped "Disruption of the collaborative space"? If not, I'd suggest a much more definitive substitute for th

Re: [GENERAL] CoC [Final]

are agendas, it almost certainly will lead to selective enforcement. Be careful what you wish for :-) SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting http://www.troubleshooters.com/28 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make

Re: [GENERAL] WIP: CoC V5

w that opens an attack route." For some reason, a significant percentage of people just LOVE to get judgmental about the other guy's work product, rather than simply showing a better way. To me it's simple... Disallow "You " Disallow "Your code " Encourage "It would be b

Re: [GENERAL] Code of Conduct: Is it time?

u call it CoC or mailing list rules or anything else, some degree of it is needed, because the community allowing a wild west of personal insults fails to achieve its potential at best, and disintegrates at worst. SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

is the faster of the two, but ZFS makes up for that big time in maintainability if you provide it with enough memory. If you require locale-specific collations (native language specific sort ordering), check that it does what you expect. Curious: Why not consider OpenBSD also? SteveT Steve Litt

Re: [GENERAL] Need sql to pull data from terribly architected table

be a quick and easy way to convert this data to the type you prefer. HTH SteveT Steve Litt* http://www.troubleshooters.com/ * http://twitter.com/stevelitt Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Need sql to pull data from terribly architected table

On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:56:39 +1100, Chris Angelico said: On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com wrote: Also, with the organization they're using, one can make new columns on the fly. ... Anyway, the keypuncher is punching data, comes across a brand new type

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for Suggestion on Learning

product that runs on Linux that does what Access does? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http

Re: [GENERAL] Crosstab query on huge amount of values

On Monday 17 January 2011 07:21:11 you wrote: Am 17.01.2011 00:20, schrieb Steve Litt: On Sunday 16 January 2011 17:40:34 Julia Jacobson wrote: Hello everybody out there using PostgreSQL, A table with the results of students in different exams student | date_of_exam | grade

[GENERAL] Why can't I change a password

. Interestingly, earlier tonight I was changing passwords just fine. I don't know what happened. Obviously there's a chunk of information I'm missing. What diagnostic tests can I do to narrow this down? Thanks SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http

Re: [GENERAL] Why can't I change a password SOLVED

/16 Steve Litt sl...@troubleshooters.com Hi all, I've somehow messed up something. psql super psql's synopsis is psql [option...] [dbname [username]] Thus, the call psql super connects psql to a database super but since username unspecified it is connected with current Unix

Re: [GENERAL] Why can't I change a password SOLVED

: password authentication failed for user postgres FATAL: password authentication failed for user postgres slitt@mydesk:~$ Thanks Steve Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Why can't I change a password SOLVED

Superuser who doesn't have a Linux account (super, in this case). Thanks for the info! SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your

Re: [GENERAL] Crosstab query on huge amount of values

suggested is one way that it could work. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/stevelitt -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http