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Posts by Vik Fearing
MS-DOS 5 Shell
If you remember DOS Shell, don't forget to schedule that colonoscopy this year.
I would have to check for assignment, but casting that does right truncation should raise a warning, not an error.
(This is standard behavior I described, not any particular implementation’s behavior.)
Implementation-Dependent
But London is in GMT/BST, not UTC…
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Parma or parmy?
No, the mission is to get politicians who actually represent us.
If she wouldn’t change her position when she needed our votes, what makes you think she would have changed her position afterwards?
I wonder why they don’t make left handed motorcycles.
Imagine that, Donald Trump not obtaining required consent.
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That is clearly a bug in postgres. Probably too late to change it now, but it's worth reporting.
Huh, interesting. It appears that PostgreSQL decided to go against the SQL standard here
ISO/IEC 9075-2:2023(E) 6.34 <JSON value constructor> GR 4) b) i) says that empty tables should produce a JSON array with no elements (intuitively), not NULL.
Why this behaviour in PG?
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TIL: Oracle has custom aggregates
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I really enjoy when postgresql crashes for no reason and takes my entire instance down with it! It's so much fun!
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Right. Your statistics were stale. Interesting that autoanalyze didn’t run.
That's not true, but if your statistics are off, it might think the Seq San is better.
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