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How to Install PostgreSQL on Manjaro

How to install PostgreSQL on Manjaro (really any Arch distro) is not straight forward. Worse yet, most of the information you find online about how to do it is outdated fifteen minutes after it is published. You have to be sure the versions match before following the instructions. You really need to do this one from the terminal. That will show you lots of stuff. If you just want to jump, run these two commands. … How to Install PostgreSQL on ManjaroRead more

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Interesting PostgreSQL Oddity

I was working on a tiny database to send out some emails with varying subjects. Decided to use PostgreSQL so I could have a real database as the back end. SQLite doesn’t share (on most platforms) so I couldn’t add data while the program was running. Being able to add stuff and check on progress while running is one of those design things you can’t kick when you’ve been in IT as long as me. … Interesting PostgreSQL OddityRead more

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CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 4

Keep in mind I have a minimal Ubuntu 20.04 LTS on this system and will be building PostgreSQL support into CopperSpice. The Building for Unix instructions assume a full installation and even then aren’t complete. By using a minimal install I can help even non-Ubuntu users because I will find everything that got missed. One of the first things I want to do is try converting my XpnsQt project from Qt to CopperSpice. This and … CopperSpice Experiments – Pt. 4Read more

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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 18

The Internet has no shortage of “how to cross compile Qt for Pi Web pages.” Most of them kind of were “right enough” at one point in time for a subset of people. Most of them don’t bother to tell you what the host system is. I suspect many of them used a 32-bit host system which masked most of the problems with their instructions. The instructions found here definitely fall into this category. How … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 18Read more

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How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 7

Originally I did a stupid thing. It was so stupid I made it the featured image for this post. I used the install/remove applications menu option to install postgresql and postgresql-contrib. Finding postgresql was like finding a needle in a haystack after using the search. The software manager for the Raspberry Pi doesn’t order by package name nor does it display that first. It displays the one-line human friendly description first and has a sort … How Far We’ve Come – Pt. 7Read more