pg-gadfly

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1. 31.▲
   by pg-gadfly 6y ago

   The programmers brain easily gets stuck on a thought loop similar to the _categorical imperative_; in which if something is true, it must be applicable in _all_ circumstances. Human life however is not an infinite array of possibilities, bu
2. 32.▲
   by pg-gadfly 6y ago

   A bunch of less powerful servers with expansion cards over a network should be much easier to manage and horizontally scalable
3. 33.▲
   by pg-gadfly 6y ago

   Actually, electric cars can break using entirely their motors while gaining the energy back. They wear their breakpads reaaally slow.
4. 34.▲
   by pg-gadfly 6y ago

   If they're free, I could instantly have all of them (in theory). A token price sets an easily-perceivable rate-limit to how many things you can acquire
5. 35.▲
   by pg-gadfly 6y ago

   Since a vacuum operation uses processor cycles, it's impossible to say no. Their wiki is pretty amazing source for postgres's operation: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/routine-vacuuming.html
6. 36.▲
   by pg-gadfly 6y ago

   You don't generally ever need to manually trigger them, they happen automatically when needed