I wrote an article on my company blog on using Postgres’ writable CTE feature to improve performance and write cleaner code. The article is available at:
http://omniti.com/seeds/writable-ctes-improve-performance
I’ve been told by a number of people I should expand it further to include updates and the implications there and then consider doing a talk on it at a Postgres conference. Â Hrm….
One of the side projects I work on outside of my job is a Japanese anime site called AniDB. It was put together by some German guys quite some time ago with Perl, PostgreSQL, and some old donated hardware/bandwidth from an ISP. They were kind/foolish enough to let me help out with the site about two years ago. Anidb has almost anything you could possibly need to know about Japanese anime series (much like imdb for movies). Including things like what characters know each other between the different series.
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