Linas Valiukas
Software Engineer at valiukas.dev
Linas has a bunch of varied, weird experience, including but not limited to building JavaScript-based public transport planners back in the day before "frontend" was even a thing, writing iOS keyboard apps optimized for typing when one's fingers are slippery from holding a pizza, and creating experimental spellcheckers for exotic hipster languages.
Five years ago, Linas has found himself in front of a massive PostgreSQL database, and has grown to love PostgreSQL's maturity and stability ever since.
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Dealing with Gigantic Tables
Coping strategies when you have 1+ TB of stuff in one place
One of the databases that I'm working on belongs to an academic project, and academia is notorious for their dislike of deleting data - in their eyes, every single byte has "future research potential" and so nothing is to be purged at any cost. Thus, research datasets have a tendency to grow to colossal sizes, and normal database management practices no longer apply - one has to put their own D...
Oct 15 2018