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2020-03-02

• 21:10 UTC (new) (history) 2020-03-02 PostgreSQL on Docker . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Lately, I’ve been experimenting with PostgreSQL a lot. It is of course convenient to be able to set up a temporary database to play around. I didn’t want to do it directly on my laptop. One solution was to use Virtualbox (with Vagrant). This is a nice way, and it is even apparently officially supported. (Go to the linked wiki page to learn about various possible reasons why you might want to run PostgreSQL in a VM.) However, I also wanted to try something different. I am completely new to Docker, and I figured that setting up PostgreSQL in Docker would be a good way to start introducing myself to this technology.

2020-02-24

• 19:44 UTC (new) (history) 2020-02-24 Some psql tips . . . . Marcin Borkowski – I have to admit that I’m more and more enamored by PostgreSQL. Since I often use its default client psql, I started searching the Internet for some features I’d like it to have – and I wasn’t disappointed.

2020-02-15

• 22:39 UTC (new) (history) 2020-02-15 PostgreSQL and null values in jsonb . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Some time ago I was writing some PostreSQL queries involving columns of type jsonb. For some reason I could not understand my query didn’t work as expected. I decided to dig a little bit deeper, and here is what I learned.

2020-02-10

• 19:14 UTC (new) (history) 2020-02-10 My first steps with Lua . . . . Marcin Borkowski – Well, the title of this post is a misnomer – I am already well past my first steps with Lua, since I’ve written a few (admittedly, very simple) Lua scripts. In the near future, though, I’d like to play around with Lua a tad more seriously. (I still do not have a lot of spare time for that, but we’ll see how it goes.) One thing I missed when I tried Lua last time (it could have been a year or so ago) was a feature found in Node.JS’s npm package manager.

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