Vik Fearing

The #SQL Standard does not mandate implementations, it anticipates them.

Apollo and Daphne, by Daniel Seiter, 1675-99, 📸 by @jeffreyphelps // @milwaukeebrewers.bsky.social

Italians secretly love pineapple on their pizza.

Tomorrow at PGConf.EU in Valencia, Petr Jelinek and I are giving our first talk together! 😊 “Postgres for Everything, Until It Isn't” When should you stick with Postgres, and when is it worth adding another engine? 🕚 11:15 · Audit 1 www.postgresql.eu/events/pgcon...

OH: "You know what I like the most?" I lol'd. 🍰💨 #IYKYK

OH: "It takes them longer than you would expect to do nothing at all." I can relate to that.

Mood. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS4i...

A chart going from 100 down to zero but labeled “relative” is just manipulative bullshit. Show real numbers or gtfo.

Black skies in Asia I am looking at the moon Oops, it’s the wing tip #haiku

Who killed all the tuples? They're all dead, man.

"SQLDoom ports the original 1993 Doom's game logic and renderer to SQL and runs it inside CedarDB." GitHub: https://github.com/cedardb/sqldoom

My hobby: Having Claude redesign popular websites through Stylus.

Domain 1 of the Open Alliance for #PostgreSQL Education DBA-1 certification explained! All 14 exam topics in one video: how Postgres gets installed, where it lives on disk, how it's configured and secured, and how it's run and upgraded youtu.be/iIyFH8HSZEA

The industry keeps asking for index hints in the SQL standard. Codd named indexing dependence as a defect to be cured, in 1970, in the paper that introduced the relational model. A hint puts it back. thegresqlpost.org/articles/a-h... #PostgreSQL #SQL #Databases #datasky

“Fuck, I have immortal longings in me.” — Cleopatra

Ms. Big

I just had a crazy thought, so I looked it up and of course it exists and has a name. I will have to check out those "in fiction" references. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogue_p...

@postgresql.org does a lot of revert engineering.

kids these days don't know 2g1c.

I don't know. It seems like Canada becoming the first "Associate Member" of the EU is kind of like the FIFA Peace Prize.

If you're on tour, and ALL of the anti-genocide musicians leave, you're on a pro-genocide tour.

Not reading this because a) it is obviously written by AI, and b) the first sentence here is just plain wrong.

I hate when I am so early to the station that my train isn’t even on the board yet.

What is Structured Query Language? Sounds interesting.

Haha. Oracle copying Postgres again. cc @samokhvalov.bsky.social

I accept your terms and conditions.

Hooray for Irving Finkel!

The people at this concert are either heavy metal or furries. It’s pretty cool.

What a country. How about "if you can't afford to pay your employees properly, you _can't_ afford to own a restaurant." Seriously, it's embarrassing.

My car does not have an off button and I frikken hate it. It’s the first thing on my list for a new car now.

"You" is already plural. Making it even more plural is just dumb. #yall #trending

I don't know why I did that.

The best thing about the USA becoming irrelevant on the world stage is that we don't have to put up with their stupid ass measurements anymore.

I was today years old when I suddenly realized (while thinking about something else) that "enchilada" just means "in chili sauce". #etymology

They call me mellow yellow.

News: PostgreSQL 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, 14.24 and 19 Beta 3 Released! https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-186-1711-1615-1519-1424-and-19-beta-3-released-3365/ #postgresql

Venn diagrams for teaching relational joins are plain wrong. I explain why in this new article. thegresqlpost.org/articles/joi...

If moths and other night critters want to get to my light so badly, why don't they just come out during the day?

What the heck? What kind of #SQL challenge site doesn't have an option for #PostgreSQL? Not even going to link it.

<insert joke here>

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Most of the arguments against SELECT * are based on insufficient normalization. #SQL

Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?

I wonder how well I would do in an #SQL interview. Ask me some questions.

Fun Fact: Roxanne does not have to put on the red light. 🚨

After lexing, #SQL is a case-sensitive language.

What are the best online resources for newly self-discovered trans women? Regarding basically everything (I am out of date on where to go for good info)