Vik Fearing

@xocolatl
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Member of the SQL Committee

Fan of MLB and WFTDA and pretty much no other sport.

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I follow hashtags more than I follow people. Tag your posts!

@Chaotica You can also use '1 week'.

@clonezone
Not quite. It treated the NULL as unknown and waited for the next branch of the set operation. You likely either had another NULL there, or a character string literal. It gives up there and goes to text instead of looking for the next arm of the setop.

#PostgreSQL

going to be referring to postgres as "spicy excel" from here on out

Fun fact, #PostgreSQL limits identifiers to 63 bytes. This is reasonable.

But it will accept creation of resources with identifiers longer than that and automatically truncate them with nothing more than a notice-level log message.

I sincerly hope the SQL standard mandates this because if not, it is a puzzling, bug-inducing choice.

@galdor

The SQL Standard mandates that identifiers accept at least 128 characters (not octets).

The #PostgreSQL decision to only allow 63 octets is an arguably reasonable choice. Its decision to silently truncate is absolutely abhorrent.

Come see Vik Fearing (@xocolatl) talk about "Window Functions Are Easier and More Powerful Than You Think" at Nordic PGDay in Copenhagen!

#postgresql #conference #copenhagen

https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/sessions/session/6042-window-functions-are-easier-and-more-powerful-than-you-think/

Nordic PGDay 2025

Window Functions Are Easier and More Powerful Than You Think

pgDay Paris 2025

Tuning community parameters: Hosting PostgreSQL events that perform

 In case you missed the info on other platforms, we're gonna have a #PostgreSQL #meetup in Paris next month on Thursday 13th March (the week before @pgDayParis) and I'll be there speaking about incremental backups (and a little bit about #pgBackRest 🤫)

https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-paris/events/305774177

Meetup PostgreSQL Paris au coeur des backups incrémentales, Thu, Mar 13, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Rejoignez-nous lors de notre prochaine rencontre du groupe d'utilisateurs PostgreSQL à Paris pour un atelier sur la maîtrise du développement SQL avec PostgreSQL. Que vous

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