Nobody should be on Twitter anymore. It's only an instrument of malice these days. FWD: FWD:

Of course that's just when one there's a new HW generation announced but not yet shipping.

The mac mini I was using for postgres CI died. I suspect the PSU. Too old for warranty. And I don't (yet) have the right screwdrivers to open it open. I guess I could put it under a drillpress. :/.

(the context is Postgres CI).

Is there a way to get a license to run more than two macOS VMs on one host?.

Just gave a talk about improving postgres on NUMA systems:.

Would like to showcase some scalability problems + solution that I see with such queries, but right now it's mostly visible with queries I made up on my own. It's easy enough to make up workloads that show almost anything, so I'd rather use something designed by someone else.

Does anybody have a recommendation for a decent read-heavy/only "OLTP-ish" database benchmark where the queries aren't just single-table point or range selects?.

RT @PostgreSQL: News: PostgreSQL 17 Released!

@ADATATechnology my SX8200PNP seems to ignore FUA on writes. Is that a) expected b) also the case on newer drives?.

The background is that I'd like to switch to using O_DSYNC by default for postgres' WAL, but that it appears some drives react unfavorably.

Command to run and the collected results are at.

Any chance a few folks could run the following fio command on various SSDs and tell me the latency, drive model and filesystem?.

RT @ahl: What an Oxide and Friends last night! @bcantrill and I were joined by the one and only @AndresFreundTec to talk about his discove….

RT @bl4sty: the xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper. I was just able to trigger some harder to reach functionality of the b….

RT @AndresFreundTec: @binitamshah FWIW, I didn't actually start looking due to the 500ms - I started looking when I saw failing ssh logins….

RT @AminovDanielle: We have been reverse engineering the XZ Utils backdoor and are sharing some initial findings: we've identified multiple….

But I am certain that lots of experienced OSS devs can think of a few large and crucial projects where they fairly easily could have hidden something small in a larger change. Without a lot of prior contributions to the project.

I am a bit concerned by all the focus on small-ish projects with overwhelmed maintainers. There indeed are a lot of problems in that area.