Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
Joined Nov 2022
@grifferz wow, sigh, that article has to have been written by AI.
I do despair at the state our industry is getting into.
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@Floppy if you ever need any help with PostgreSQL, let me know, happy to help you out.
@dick_turpin no doubt you'll beat that corporate loyalty out of them quickly.
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🗣️ We’re looking for volunteers for the PGConf.EU 2025 Talk Selection Committee!
Interested? Email contact@pgconf.eu by 16 June with:
• Name
• Company affiliation (if any)
• Area of PostgreSQL interest/expertise
• Previous selection committee experience
We’d love to hear from you!
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Across the world, right now, billionaires, oligarchs, and corporations are using their wealth to silence dissent, undo decades of social and environmental progress, and manipulate the game in their favour.
It's #TimeToResist the billionaire takeover.
Join us! 👉 https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/time-to-resist/
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🎉 Join (@karenhjex@mastodon) Karen Jex at #PosetteConf Livestream 3️⃣ to learn about skills, tools and techniques for managing #Postgres at scale. ⚖️ 🐘
https://posetteconf.com
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👋 Join Chris Ellis (@intrbiz) at #PosetteConf Livestream 3 to learn how to have fun with UUIDs 🎈 ☀️
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This week on Tue/Wed/Thu Jun 10-12 is @posetteconf, a free & virtual developer conference with 4 livestreams, 42 talks about Postgres, & a live hallway track on Discord 📺
If you use #PostgreSQL 🐘 there's probably something here for you: https://posetteconf.com/2025/schedule/
🧵(1) A quick story on why #PosetteConf matters (and why virtual conferences matter) 👇
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This 4th year of the virtual @posetteconf will have:
💥 45 a-ma-zing speakers from 21 companies
📺 4 livestreams
✅ 42 #PostgreSQL talks
💬 Live virtual hallway track on Discord
The 2 keynotes are by brilliant speakers Bruce Momjian & Charles Feddersen
+ 18 talks about the Postgres core
+ 12 Postgres ecosystem talks
+ 10 talks about Azure Database for PostgreSQL
Hope to see you—or your Postgres database friends—at #PosetteConf
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@tomasv interesting post, did you consider running pgbench on another machine from the postgresql server, might be interesting as to how that shifted things, if you're thinking there is some benefit of the client and server processes being on the same core / core cluster.
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⏰ The countdown begins! 5️⃣ days until the 2025 version of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres begins. Have you saved the date? 🗓️
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Submission deadline for community projects on Tuesday before #PGConfEU is next week! Get your ideas and proposals in!
@veronica a partial unique index might do what you want, or get you close.
But it might be worth asking is the data model sensible.
@tomasv yeh, that was more my thought, it's a very simple protocol and gives lots of scope for injecting any specifics you wanted.
@tomasv if you used NBD you could sigkill the server or maybe modify it to simulate different types of the disk doing odd things.
@xahteiwi back in the day, I loved Trac for it's simplicity and ability to write reports in plain SQL. As someone who routinely has Jira imposed on me, I can honestly say I hate it with a passion.
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For most of the past decade, the Chromium animation team in Google's Waterloo office has gotten an earful from me about about how the we *had* to get to a point where scroll-based animations were not only possible, but reliably offloaded to the compositor.
And they did it, despite *constant* stop-energy from Apple (who still can't do <body> scrolling right 🙄). The results speak for themselves:
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Tonight we are cheating.
Bought this marinated at the store
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PostgreSQL, Linux, Java, and more. Lover of computers, electronics and Open Source. European. Lib Dem. Lead Technical Strategist nexteam.co.uk
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