Waiting (Again)
Kinneret Lahad, sociologist researching time and singlehood, discusses the relationship escalator, waiting, moral superiority of family, and emotional autonomy.| Peter McGraw
On 20th of October 2025, Masahiko Sawada committed patch: Support COPY TO for partitioned tables. Previously, COPY TO command didn't support directly specifying partitioned tables so users had to use COPY (SELECT ...) TO variant. This commit adds direct COPY TO support for partitioned tables, improving both usability and performance. Performance tests show … Continue reading "Waiting for PostgreSQL 19 – Support COPY TO for partitioned tables."| select * from depesz;
On 29th of September 2025, Tom Lane committed patch: Add GROUP BY ALL. GROUP BY ALL is a form of GROUP BY that adds any TargetExpr that does not contain an aggregate or window function into the groupClause of the query, making it exactly equivalent to specifying those same expressions in an explicit GROUP … Continue reading "Waiting for PostgreSQL 19 – Add GROUP BY ALL."| select * from depesz;
On 9th of September 2025, Dean Rasheed committed patch:| select * from depesz;
Kinneret Lahad, sociologist researching time and singlehood, discusses the relationship escalator, waiting, moral superiority of family, and emotional autonomy.| Peter McGraw
On 29th of July 2025, David Rowley committed patch:| select * from depesz;
Are you brave enough not to please? Even when it comes to motherhood? As Mothers we carry a deep desire to comfort, help, and fix.| Embracing the Unexpected
On 8th of April 2025, Daniel Gustafsson committed patch:| select * from depesz;
On 4th of April 2025, Andrew Dunstan committed patch: Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore pg_dumpall acquires a new -F/--format option, with the same meanings as pg_dump. The default is p, meaning plain text. For any other value, a directory is created containing two files, globals.data and map.dat. The first contains SQL … Continue reading "Waiting for PostgreSQL 18 – Non text modes for pg_dumpall, correspondingly change pg_restore"| select * from depesz;
On 11st of December 2024, Masahiko Sawada committed patch: Add UUID version 7 generation function. This commit introduces the uuidv7() SQL function, which generates UUID version 7 as specified in RFC 9652. UUIDv7 combines a Unix timestamp in milliseconds and random bits, offering both uniqueness and sortability. In our implementation, the 12-bit sub-millisecond … Continue reading "Waiting for PostgreSQL 18 – Add UUID version 7 generation function."| select * from depesz;
Everybody’s busy. Everyone I meet says they are. With so much to do in our Western, post-industrial lives, it is easy to resent being made to wait. It can seem like a waste of time, during which we…| Geoff King
On 7th of February 2025, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:| select * from depesz;
On 14th of February 2025, Nathan Bossart committed patch:| select * from depesz;
On 11st of February 2025, Nathan Bossart committed patch:| select * from depesz;
On 22nd of January 2025, Tom Lane committed patch:| select * from depesz;
On 16th of January 2025, Dean Rasheed committed patch:| select * from depesz;
On 6th of January 2025, Nathan Bossart committed patch:| select * from depesz;
On 11st of December 2024, David Rowley committed patch:| select * from depesz;
Nasreddin got himself into some serious legal trouble–the reasons are lost to time. Before the king sentenced him to death, Nasreddin asked for a delay because he was the only person in the world who could teach a horse to sing. The king was skeptical, but gave Nasreddin a horse and a year to teach […]| anotherpanacea
On 18th of December 2024, Michael Paquier committed patch:| select * from depesz;
Columnist Dagmar Munn ponders the various things that people with ALS wait for, and shares a study with findings on what cultivates hope.| ALS News Today
Once upon a time, there was a season in the church year known as “Advent.” The word comes to us from the Latin for “coming.” The purpose of the season was to anticipate the coming of Christ to earth; it was a season that focused on waiting. As early as the fourth century AD, Christians […] The post Advent: The Difficult Discipline of Celebrating the Waiting appeared first on Timothy Paul Jones.| Timothy Paul Jones
On 16th of January 2024, Peter Eisentraut committed patch:| select * from depesz;
Queuing, or as we Americans call it, waiting in line, is everywhere in modern life. From grocery store registers to vacations at Disney to daily commutes by car, we spend minutes every day waiting our turn. Most discussions of queuing focus on the individual: How can you avoid waiting in line, or make the most […]| The Christian Rationalist
