i think the real takeaway is that postgres devs aren’t fucking around when it comes to performance
i think the real takeaway is that postgres devs aren’t fucking around when it comes to performance 18 comments
@jacqueline indeed that was a deep dive for a very little motivation! I'm impressed at the dedication. @jacqueline in a meeting in a few years: "So, why did we decide to go with PostgreSQL back then?" "Well, it's complicated!" @jacqueline I’m going to be thinking about this every time somebody asks “Is CI running a little slow today?” @pmidden @jacqueline they discovered that xz had a backdoor because it took 0.4 seconds longer to log into ssh
@pmidden @jacqueline the recent XZ backdoor was initially uncovered by a postgresql dev who noticed some benchmarks were running **sightly** slower than normal. @jacqueline There’s this book called “a cuckoo’s egg” by a guy named Clifford Stoll that you might like 🙃 @sandorspruit @jacqueline 75 cents difference - I’m reading this right now. For the umpteenth time. OMG if you ever did an strace and like each ms the LD_LIBRARY_PATH is walked only to find what it needs at the very end of it. @rml |
@jacqueline absolute facts lmao