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PostgreSQL docs reloaded

If you regularly reference the online PostgreSQL docs, you may have noticed that they have just had a face-lift in time for the big 9.0 release. If not, take a look . This went through quite a few revisions with input from many folk in the Postgres community. As with all things, you won't please everyone, and this is no less true in the case of this redesign. But look at this as a pilot change, where we've come up with a first version with possible "bug-fixes" to follow. I've also provided similar changes for the French version , although there's only been feedback from one person for that. Regardless, they appear to have gone with it anyway. I'm no designer, and neither are the majority of the people who contributed their recommendations, but the original cause of me wanting to make some changes is so that the examples which appear throughout the docs would be distinct from the main body text. Previously they appeared to all merge into one which ma...

Why I refuse to use transporter technology

As you are aware , transporter technology has allowed us to deliver objects across great distances almost instantaneously . Not only does this mean we don't have to wait for items we've ordered to take a long journey across land and sea , but we also saves us a huge amount of money in postage costs . However , while people have started to use this to travel across the globe, I can't bring myself to do it . The reason is simple. I will be killed off forever . Here's my rationale ... When the Transmat sequence begins , it starts by converting your matter to energy and during this process , every molecule and electro-chemical reaction in your body is recorded with the exact position, electrical charge, temperature ... everything copied down into the network's distributed memory . This data is then sent to the rematerialisation hub nearest to your destination. The hub ...