[GENERAL] Please say it isn't so

2017-07-11 Thread Steve Litt
h language 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 Job

Re: [GENERAL] browser interface to forums please?

2017-04-05 Thread Steve Litt
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 -- Sent

Re: [GENERAL] browser interface to forums please?

2017-03-27 Thread Steve Litt
o 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.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for an online mentor

2016-12-09 Thread Steve Litt
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 > the skills but whenever I

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for an online mentor

2016-12-08 Thread Steve Litt
ented, 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: Qui

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

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
nology), 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

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

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
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 January 2016 featured book: Twenty E

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

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
On Sun, 24 Jan 2016 00:00:27 + Geoff Winkless wrote: > On 23 January 2016 at 21:59, Steve Litt > wrote: > > I'm reminded of a person on a computer on a no-Internet-connection > > LAN saying that everyone needs equal protection from firewalls. > > Ummm, no. Th

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

2016-01-23 Thread Steve Litt
ands 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 other peoples shoes before assuming others need only the meager amount of p

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

2016-01-22 Thread Steve Litt
ntries 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 mailing list (pgsq

Re: [GENERAL] CoC [Final]

2016-01-21 Thread Steve Litt
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 that phrase. SteveT Steve Litt January 2016 featured book:

Re: [GENERAL] CoC [Final]

2016-01-19 Thread Steve Litt
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 changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] WIP: CoC V5

2016-01-13 Thread Steve Litt
k 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 better if y

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

2016-01-11 Thread Steve Litt
ether you 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 Troubleshootin

Re: [GENERAL] Linux vs FreeBSD

2014-04-11 Thread Steve Litt
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 OpenBS

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

2012-10-24 Thread Steve Litt
On Thu, 25 Oct 2012 03:56:39 +1100, Chris Angelico said: > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:42 AM, Steve Litt > wrote: > > Also, with the organization they're using, one can make new > > "columns" on the fly. ... Anyway, the keypuncher is punching > > data, comes

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

2012-10-24 Thread Steve Litt
ments. I'll bet you dollars to donuts if you could speak to the original programmer, he'd show you a good reason for his data organization, and he'd also tell you he in no way anticipated that the data would ever be handled purely by SQL. Anyway, bottom line, a simple, procedura

Re: [GENERAL] Looking for Suggestion on Learning

2011-02-06 Thread Steve Litt
Postgres ODBC > or ADODB connectors. Is there an open source 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 (

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

2011-01-17 Thread Steve Litt
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 ex

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

2011-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
ow long it would take to create an index sorted first by student and then by exam? I'm sure there are easier ways of doing it, but what I suggested is one way that it could work. HTH SteveT Steve Litt Recession Relief Package http://www.recession-relief.US Twitter: http://www.twi

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

2011-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
eing able to supervise from a Postgres 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

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

2011-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
es -h localhost -p 5433 super Password for user postgres: psql: FATAL: 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

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

2011-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
> 2011/1/16 Steve Litt > > > 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 &g

[GENERAL] Why can't I change a password

2011-01-16 Thread Steve Litt
also happened when I was in as "postgres". 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 L