Re: Pet Peeves?

Gregory Stark wrote:
> I'm putting together a talk on "PostgreSQL Pet Peeves" for discussion at
> FOSDEM 2009 this year. I have a pretty good idea what some them are of course,

* The capitalization that makes everyone (customers, execs, etc) I introduce
it to parse the name as Postgre-SQL.

* Last I checked, postgres keeps my laptop's hard drive spinning all the time
by doing some I/O even when "totally idle". For that matter, waking
up the CPUs a few times a second too.

* pgfoundry - which was once described on the mailinglists as
the "kiss of death" for projects. Yes, I understand why it is
what it is; but it's still a pet-peeve. I can't even put my finger
on what's annoying about it; but it is.

* Upgrades involving databases with extra modules like postgis.
$ sh utils/postgis_restore.pl lwpostgis.sql newdb olddb.dump -E=UNICODE

* Finding extensions I might want. For example:
- Surely someone wrote a good count(*)-replacement-trigger before.
Now where can I find one? Searching for "count" on pgfoundry
doesn't help me. Searching varlena genralbits find shows me
a simple one, but IIRC is lacking when it comes to concurrency.
Googling just gets me lots of "read the archives" postings in
the archives.