>postgres essentially dead
oh no, what are companies going to do now that a massive source of income (= steal from open sores) is gone? i though there was genuine money to gain from hosting postgres databases...
it's just a matter of time before the company he founded (which pays most postgres developers) goes down the plughole or switches it to some server-license bullshit.
the guy who single-handedly implemented and maintained all of the enterprise features of postgres just died, so yes. its not easy onboarding someone into a codebase as complex as a database. there are possibly years worth of obscure, institutional knowledge that only Simon Riggs had. this isnt a problem you can just throw more developers at. (well, you sort of can if you accept a 3-5 year delay in your devs being useful at all)
I've been here! It's at Imperial War Museum Duxford. They have an active airfield and one of the largest most well equipped aerospace museums ever.
They also have an American hanger with a bunch of cool planes and for some reason a steel beam from one of the world trade centres. Here is me touching it like from that Vietnam war memorial painting, trying to hold back my laughter too.
rip freetard. you have passed away, but every line of code you wrote will continue to live in these corporations and make them profit for a long time. multi-billion dollar corporations are grateful for your service.
every time prior to flying your airplane, you have to go through a check list of 134 items, and if you forget to do one then your plane will nose dive out of the sky and kill you in a horrendous fireball
however, if you do all of the things, then you will get to soar in your dumb little plane for a couple of hours and look at all the boring fields and stupid livestock or whatever is running around underneath you
all in all i don't really see the point in it. just go for a drive; if your engine fails then you won't fall to your death
ah so when they really meant it when they said it was during touch and go... man that sucks because if there's one plane where you can get away with some level of over confidence, it's the cirrus (especially since hobby pilots seem to die a lot from stalls). But he was ironically too low for the recovery system to work.. at least the parachute tried its best lol
the guy who single-handedly implemented and maintained all of the enterprise features of postgres just died, so yes. its not easy onboarding someone into a codebase as complex as a database. there are possibly years worth of obscure, institutional knowledge that only Simon Riggs had. this isnt a problem you can just throw more developers at. (well, you sort of can if you accept a 3-5 year delay in your devs being useful at all)
better to use something different now and see what will happen to postgresql in the future.
wanted to use postgresql for my final exam project but now I won't.
Not great for postgresql. maintenance is actually a serious issue, the average age of contributors is relatively old and fewer people learn C every year. It will take institutional capital to pay people to learn and maintain the codebase, and before we know it postgres will be closed source SAAS
yikes.
>postgres essentially dead
oh no, what are companies going to do now that a massive source of income (= steal from open sores) is gone? i though there was genuine money to gain from hosting postgres databases...
>postgres essentially dead
is it tho?
it's just a matter of time before the company he founded (which pays most postgres developers) goes down the plughole or switches it to some server-license bullshit.
the guy who single-handedly implemented and maintained all of the enterprise features of postgres just died, so yes. its not easy onboarding someone into a codebase as complex as a database. there are possibly years worth of obscure, institutional knowledge that only Simon Riggs had. this isnt a problem you can just throw more developers at. (well, you sort of can if you accept a 3-5 year delay in your devs being useful at all)
If he was that integral to the running of the company then qutie frankly it's poor delegation skills and bad management on his part.
Julian Assange (Postgres contributer) is still alive.
was it karma?
>flying as a hobby
w-what's the issue? It's something I'm considering getting into lmao
you can die
he probably got wienery and fricked up somehow. You can die from too much sitting at the computer as well
wait that place a few days ago? shit I thought it was a small one. RIP.
I've been here! It's at Imperial War Museum Duxford. They have an active airfield and one of the largest most well equipped aerospace museums ever.
They also have an American hanger with a bunch of cool planes and for some reason a steel beam from one of the world trade centres. Here is me touching it like from that Vietnam war memorial painting, trying to hold back my laughter too.
And here is me touching the wing of an actual SR-71 Blackbird.
dad aesthetic
lel
Looks like a fun place and you had fun
I did! 🙂
rip simon riggs
Kek based
what the frick is the point of that photo of tony blair
Not sure, probably to do with muh 'special relationship' between the UK and US that doesn't actually exist.
I'm 99% this whole thread is a repost of some thread from a few weeks ago
especially those posts
check the archives
>another string based database bites the dust
for me, it's rocksdb
I'm sorry, but it's highly amusing that someone who develops RDBMS dies from using a system with lack of redundancy.
>a system with lack of redundancy.
life?
What is it with rich wypipo and airplanes?
>flying on an american made plane
It was just a matter of time...
https://x.com/muratherdemm/status/1772709800788336934?s=20
why are brits allowed to flight planes?
rip freetard. you have passed away, but every line of code you wrote will continue to live in these corporations and make them profit for a long time. multi-billion dollar corporations are grateful for your service.
https://stackshare.io/postgresql
>Dies in a airplane crash
What are the chances? Could it be glowies behind this?
every time prior to flying your airplane, you have to go through a check list of 134 items, and if you forget to do one then your plane will nose dive out of the sky and kill you in a horrendous fireball
however, if you do all of the things, then you will get to soar in your dumb little plane for a couple of hours and look at all the boring fields and stupid livestock or whatever is running around underneath you
all in all i don't really see the point in it. just go for a drive; if your engine fails then you won't fall to your death
drop table;
glowBlack folk from oracle did this
death to troonySQL
>Have we started the fire?
I just use sqlite
damn doesn't that plane have a parachute?
Yes, you can see it eject the parachute, somewhat after-the-fact, in the video of the crash
ah so when they really meant it when they said it was during touch and go... man that sucks because if there's one plane where you can get away with some level of over confidence, it's the cirrus (especially since hobby pilots seem to die a lot from stalls). But he was ironically too low for the recovery system to work.. at least the parachute tried its best lol
Poor guy 🙁
Can't he just do a rollback?
There goes supabase, RIP.
RIP postgresql
Will it still be updated or do I need to move my dbs?
see
better to use something different now and see what will happen to postgresql in the future.
wanted to use postgresql for my final exam project but now I won't.
i know boeings are falling apart now too but it seems like never flying in anything smaller than a 747 is a great way to not die. rip postgre man
Not great for postgresql. maintenance is actually a serious issue, the average age of contributors is relatively old and fewer people learn C every year. It will take institutional capital to pay people to learn and maintain the codebase, and before we know it postgres will be closed source SAAS