The Python programming language is, I think, a fantastic tool. But there is two fucking thing that really makes me sad: packaging and dependency management. Today, my Linux distribution, Arch, decide that it was OK to migrate python 3.8. And it broke tons of shit on my machine. So I took a moment to re-install and harden stuff so that it doesn’t happen again. Pyenv To Have Multiple Version I use Pyenv with the plugin to handle virtualenv....
I see a lot project using timestamp data type in there databases. I tend to think that this is a bad idea. Dev Is Not Prod Your local setup may have a timezone which reflect your physical location. This may not be the case of your server(s), which could have a specific timezone, or, UTC time. Which is better by the way (more on than later). So you will experience bug and issues if you do not pay attention to it....
I recently migrate a PostgreSQL DB from an ubuntu server VM to Azure PostgreSQL. If you use this DBaaS before, you may have noticed you need to add @<my_instance_name> after your login. For exemple if you create a test_azure_db, your url for this PostgreSQL instance is test_azure_db.postgres.database.azure.com. And imagine the name of your user is remi, to login you need to do psql -h test_azure_db.postgres.database.azure.com -U remi@test_azure. I don’t know what sort of magic Azure is doing, but it gave me an idea....
Recently I though about (re)starting a blog, but didn’t find subject to fill it. Then I got a new job with tons of news subject to learn and I need a place to store it, maybe it will help some. Enjoy. Right Management in Postgresql @Fibrea we use postgresql a lot, it’s the heart of our system. Operating this DB day to day is quite challenging some time. So here is what I understand from my experience and reading on right management in postgresql....