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CommandPrompt Inc.
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CommandPrompt Inc. is the company blog at commandprompt.com, writing about data and programming. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 30 times, most often “Null characters in Postgres: workarounds aren’t good enough”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-27, and you can follow it by feed.
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- Null characters in Postgres: workarounds aren’t good enough2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-12-03
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You could always hire someone like command prompt to do it for you (i'm pretty sure they already have all this stuff pre-written). heh..actually..it's the first thing on their product list: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/hot_standby_drbd/ ... they also do clusters, etc.
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on “Why Use Postgres”Submitted Null characters in Postgres: workarounds aren’t good enough as a story · 90 points
HN discussion> I don't see a lot of harm from adding this syntax however as people are free to not use it and it relies on an existing strict convention. This is a good argument I will add to the list. Also interesting to read about un-enforced foreign keys. I haven't used MSSQL myself, the DB in which I heard it's possible, I've only been using PostgreSQL for the last 20 years, and before that MySQL. I think the problems you de…
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on “SQL language proposal: JOIN FOREIGN”Submitted The Fall of Open Source as a story · 38 points
HN discussionHi, pgmanage dev here. PgManage is being developed by CommandPrompt Inc. https://www.commandprompt.com/about/ Speaking of supply-chain attacks like the one happened with .XZ compressor - we are taking this matter seriously. I recommend to download PgManage builds from the Github releases page https://github.com/commandprompt/pgmanage/releases Cheers!
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on “PgManage: Modern, cross platform graphical database client”Submitted Snap packages for 9.3.15, 9.4.10, 9.5.5 and 9.6.1 available as a story · 7 points
HN discussionfor the consulting firm question http://www.enterprisedb.com/ and http://www.commandprompt.com/ are large contributors to postgres and have great mindshare in the community
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on “Why doesn't Quora use PostgreSQL”Submitted What MySQL (and really, Sun) can learn from PostgreSQL as a story · 7 points
HN discussionYou can just throw money at Postgres problems and make them go away. There are a number of very capable firms that do nothing but Postgresql support. And, they don't hold you captive w/ licensing. And if your needs are really that unique they can help you with building extensions to postgresql that support the capabilities you need. See http://www.commandprompt.com/support/ for an example, or http://pgexperts.com/se…
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on “Ask HN: When to use MySQL vs PgSQL?”Submitted PostgreSQL is King Last week was quite busy being a servant as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you want to tune your database to squeeze every single Mhz and MB on your machine then indeed you need to take the time to learn the parameters that PostgreSQL offers you, and it does offer you those parameters, it's an extra compared to MySQL. But you don't have to, you can pretty much limit yourself to a few configuration parameters that are very useful and would get you 80% of the way, and of course add some m…
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on “MyISAM, InnoDB, and PostgreSQL”Submitted PostgreSQL High Availability options as a story · 4 points
HN discussionIf you want a managed PostgreSQL instance CommandPrompt offers that as a service http://commandprompt.com/services/dedicatedhosting/ The issues with running a database in a shared environment are that you need dedicated hardware for performance, you do not want to be telling customers that you don't know why it takes 10 seconds to update inventory quantities only to discover it's someone else sucking up your disk ba…
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on “Great Business idea #2: Managed MySQL or PostgreSQL on SliceHost and EC2”Submitted Postgres is better than MySQL but not because of how long it took to fix a bug as a story · 3 points
HN discussionDid you read the linked presentation? http://www.commandprompt.com/files/mysql_learn.pdf
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on “What MySQL (and really, Sun) can learn from PostgreSQL”Submitted GNU and the FSF should be split up as a story · 3 points
HN discussionToo bad you're not willing to consider PostgreSQL. I would have suggested http://www.commandprompt.com
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on “Ask HN: Outsourced SQL Providers?”Submitted PostgreSQL and Financial Calculations – Part One as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Null Characaters: Work arounds aren't good enough (Postgres) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL v10: An Amplified version of PostgreSQL as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bridging the PostgreSQL Chasm as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL 7.4, 8.0 and 8.1 END OF LIFE as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Upgrading PostgreSQL and Citus for Enhanced Database Functionality as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PostgreSQL and Financial Calculations: Part Two as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thoughts on Forks and Open Source Licenses as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Is it time for a newbie-hacker mentor for PostgreSQL.Org? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Connection initiation is killing your web app as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Postgres: Upcoming community awesomeness as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Where is the Postgres community? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Practical PostgreSQL EBook as a story · 1 points
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