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Andreas Scherbaum
Personal blog · andreas.scherbaum.la/blogdataprogrammingsystems
Andreas Scherbaum writes ads' corner, a personal blog at andreas.scherbaum.la about data, programming and systems. Since 2011, 10 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL?”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Andreas Scherbaum's blog posts as sources and examples: a Wikipedia deletionism debate, a Mandrill outage, and a client-side blog comments approach. None of the comments judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2019-02-05
What Hacker News says?
Yes. Citation needed, eh? http://www.zeit.de/digital/internet/2009-10/wikipedia-streit... http://wapedia.mobi/en/Deletionists http://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/735-Wikipedia-im-L... http://www.onlinekosten.de/news/artikel/36674/0/Loeschwahn-W... http://blog.docx.org/2009/10/20/loeschwahn-bei-wikipedia/ Ah, you know what, you can google the rest... Ich glaube auch es ist schlecht möglich, dass man als Deutsch…
Comment linking /blog/archives/735-Wikipedia-im-Loeschwahn.html
on “Programming languages are being deleted from Wikipedia”Submitted PostgreSQL upgrades are hard as a story · 237 points
HN discussionSeems to possibly be the same issue as that discussed on another frontpage article: https://andreas.scherbaum.la/blog/archives/970-How-long-will... / https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19082944
Comment linking /blog/archives/970-How-long-will-a-64-bit-Transaction-ID-last-in-PostgreSQL.html
on “Mandrill has been down for over 30 hours with no explanation”Submitted How long will a 64 bit Transaction-ID last in PostgreSQL? as a story · 101 points
HN discussionIt really depends how 'carefully crafted' your queries are. If there are things like index hints, you can just strip them out. If you are using non-standard mysql specific syntax, that will be a bit of a pain, but it won't take more than a day or two to fix a few hundred queries. Where you are going to experience the most pain is that MySQL lets you write idiotic queries like this: SELECT id, last_name FROM some_tab…
Comment linking /blog/archives/657-PostgreSQL-9.0-Includes-the-new-MySQL-Emulation-Layer.html
on “Lesson: Oracle's driving MySQL to open core; don't sign contributor agreement”Submitted PostgreSQL Upgrades Are Hard as a story · 3 points
HN discussionYou can use Hugo to generate/update an rss feed of your blog. There are tools to post rss feed updates as posts on mastodon. As far as comments, I’ve seen it done, but as far as I know it’s a bunch of custom code. One example I found: https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2024-05-23_client-side-com...
Comment linking /post/2024-05-23_client-side-comments-with-mastodon-on-a-static-hugo-website/
on “Jeffgeerling.com has been Migrated to Hugo”Submitted Columns limit in PostgreSQL – how many columns fit into a table as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tour de (PostgreSQL) Data Types [pdf] as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted My PostgreSQL database is empty as a story · 1 points
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