anarazel

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by anarazel 9y ago
The amount of damage Martin Fowler has done with his writing...
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by anarazel 9y ago
> So what is the use-case? They allow tracking.
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by anarazel 9y ago
Is that a likely problem for the kernel, actually? Given that there's no API stability, and the fact that syscalls are an explicit ABI anyway, I don't see how that'd matter for linux? (not that I'm arguing for C++ in lin
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by anarazel 9y ago
OTOH, google's ad-models have thoroughly broken models of financing reporting that wasn't as reliant on clickbait to even get seen. While surely not the sole culprit, the need to create engagedness at all cost has increased polari
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by anarazel 9y ago
I'm working on this. The summary at Phoronix isn't really accurate. The presentation linked is about a different effort to integrate JIT into postgres. > "JIT-compiling expressions for PostgreSQL has been found to be up t
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by anarazel 9y ago
There's no exploit here, superusers can do things, that's it.
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by anarazel 9y ago
No, postgres can't work without accessing files or having a working shell (latter kinda works in some limited configurations). And I don't think it's a reasonable idea to not have a superuser at all. But you can have it passw
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by anarazel 9y ago
> Well, for one thing, inserting into pg_catalog tables without DDLs should require privilege and be audited. It does require privileges. > Secondly, things like lo_export() should be disabled by default. It's superuser only.
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by anarazel 9y ago
In this case you probably should just be using postgres' apt repository, which'll carry new releases very promptly.
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by anarazel 9y ago
Yes, there is: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/logicaldecodi... I know a couple companies that feed elastic search via it. Don't think they've publicized the glue though.
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by anarazel 9y ago
There's press reports about the DEA warning about it. E.g.: http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-cocaine-cut-... That's what I remembered.
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by anarazel 9y ago
I think it's commonly used to cut other drugs (coke), so I don't think that argument would go far.
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by anarazel 9y ago
> It sounds like the rules and procedures being applied were vastly different than what Equifax's highly paid lawyer expected. Is their $1000-an-hour lawyer just incompetent, or is the pro tem judge here allowed to make up the rules
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by anarazel 9y ago
IANAL. It's not inconceivable they could make further trouble nevertheless: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/3d/1... The relevant part appears to be: "The Eloby court&#x2
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by anarazel 9y ago
> Are there other projects with numerous corporate contributors, then, which were threatened or destroyed by poor patches? My perception is that Postgres has a large number of corporate contributors, but they don't seem to be hurtin
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by anarazel 9y ago
No. Logical decoding, which is used by both pglogical and the now in-core logical replication, was added in 9.4. https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.6/static/logicaldecoding.h... See references to test_decoding
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by anarazel 9y ago
Note that RDS supports, before 10, streaming out logical changes. Support for that was added to postgres 9.4. I stand by my statement that it'll be problematic for Aurora to support this.
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by anarazel 9y ago
IMO tuning and indexing / constraints are two different things.
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by anarazel 9y ago
I don't know, but my guess is that they changed too much of the storage layer to keep it working. Logical decoding gets its data from postgres' write ahead log - which aurora supposedly largely replaced.
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by anarazel 9y ago
> That is such BS. I was gonna try (I have some publications and stuff) but that's about it. Now I feel like I am rotting away here. Don't get too disparaged by this example. It depends a lot on the individual reviewer. Yes, th
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by anarazel 9y ago
So? That's not a US only problem. Nor is it particularly related to illegal immigration. In a lot of areas of Germany you could do similar, except with a bit less uniformity about which language skill are needed.
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by anarazel 9y ago
> They also don't have millions of illegal immigrants with no federal labor protection driving wages down internally. Oh, bs. There's plenty plenty access to cheap labor (intra EU migration, external immigration, asylees with w
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by anarazel 9y ago
But there's plenty userland software that has code with different privilege levels running in it. E.g. databases.
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by anarazel 9y ago
First off, they aren't lifted to a stable orbit, that'd cost additional fuel (which'd need more fuel again). They're detached once the air is thin enough that the resistance doesn't cause problems. Secondly, it&#x27
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by anarazel 9y ago
> Can you explain to me what particular cases postgresql's decimal type cannot handle properly _and_ conveniently? I entirely agree that numeric is a good solution for this case. But to try to answer your question nevertheless: I&#x
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by anarazel 9y ago
16383 digits ought to be enough for everyone: "up to 131072 digits before the decimal point; up to 16383 digits after the decimal point" Non jokingly: I think precision wise that's really plenty enough for pretty much any hal
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by anarazel 9y ago
> Also, social services in Germany and many Scandinavian countries are not that far off and these countries do not have 50%+ unemployment. Especially in the case of Germany they're pretty far off. After loosing employment, iff you&#
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by anarazel 9y ago
LLVM IR usually is platform dependant. Especially so when generated by clang etc..
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by anarazel 9y ago
Hm. Cool work, but I'm not sure I really see a practical use case? Ideas welcome.
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by anarazel 9y ago
Yes, pre Church committee secret CIA research is really applicable to the topic at hand.

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