Thursday, June 20, 2013

A literate client comments on Postgres

Some clients are more fun than others. Today, after I told one client of a long standing feature of Postgres that he was unaware of, he channelled his inner bard and sent me this email:

Steve:
How beauteous this software is!
O brave new database
That has such commands in't!

Andrew:
'Tis new to thee. 
 (To save you looking it up, he's adapting a well known passage in The Tempest).

Things like this make my day.
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  1. UnknownJune 20, 2013 at 4:02 PM

    What was the feature?

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  2. Andrew DunstanJune 20, 2013 at 4:45 PM

    NULLIF

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    1. AnonymousJune 21, 2013 at 1:30 AM

      But NULLIF is standard feature for all databases, isn't it? :)

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    2. Andrew DunstanJune 21, 2013 at 8:57 AM

      Yes, he sent that email in response to one of mine where I told him it was neither new nor unique to Postgres. That's in fact what makes his adaptation of the quote so apposite.

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