I’ve given this talk three times: at RubyConfIndia, RubyConf Australia, and Balkan Ruby. (Don’t worry, non-Rubyists; there’s no Ruby in this post. The conference topics were just happenstance. Also I love the word “happenstance”.)
That’s how I would describe my experience with Postgres generally: more often pleasantly surprising than not. Its date/time/interval facilities are great.
I’m a time/date nerd so didn’t expect to read anything new, but was pleasantly surprised.
It’s clearly adapted from a talk though.
Although I have one nit for this pun-laden infodump - no mention of week numbering? I’m sorry, but that’s just … week-sauce.
Did it leave you yearning for more?
I find an intake of info like biannually quite satisfactory, but sometimes a biennial schedule is sufficient.
It even says so:
So it does… I read it over breakfast and spent way too much time constructing the we[e|a]k pun.
Much to hour disappointment.
I’m sure there is good content in this post, but I gave up looking for it after two minutes of scrolling through puns…
It’s the style of the page that drives me away. I’d appreciate it a lot if it would just pick a colour scheme.
And yeah, this is griping, but there’s some useful information buried in the showmanship here.
Firefox Reader Mode is your friend.
I had a lot of fun researching all this stuff when I was writing a book about working with time in PostgreSQL. It’s remarkably complicated.
PG handles time really well. I was always pleasantly surprised.
That’s how I would describe my experience with Postgres generally: more often pleasantly surprising than not. Its date/time/interval facilities are great.