Posts Filed in "PostgreSQL"

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May

Filed in Disqus, Django, PostgreSQL, Work with View Comments |

As many you of know I joined Disqus last month. This was a pretty big move for me, and definitely a great one. They have some amazing challenges, and the company has a great group of people willing to solve them. I’ve always been a big advocate of MySQL. Not because it’s the best relational [...]

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Apr

Filed in Code, MySQL, PHP, PostgreSQL with View Comments |

This afternoon I posted my PHP database library on Google code. It’s designed to be very lightweight, and uses the PHP4 MySQL functions as well as the PostgreSQL functions, but is built for PHP5. It uses sprintf formatting, and works must like the Python database cursor’s, to help alleviate injection concerns while you are writing [...]

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Apr

Filed in Django, PostgreSQL, iBegin with View Comments |

Last week I made the decision to begin the conversion from MySQL to PostgreSQL. Well, more of a benchmark conversion, but none the less. So we begin the installation.. I installed PostgreSQL server, version 8.2, painlessly both locally and on our staging server. I then installed psycopg2 via Python setuptools. Nice, quick and easy, right? [...]