Category Archives: Databases

Optimizing Django ORM / Postgres queries using left join

Posted on 2012-07-13 by lorg

For the latest project I’m working on, we’re using Django with Postgres. I was writing some code that had to find a list of objects that weren’t processed yet. The way they were stored in the DB is like so: … Continue reading →

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Bulk INSERTs FTW

Posted on 2009-07-17 by lorg

A short while ago, I had to research some API for a company I’m consulting for. This API yields very good quality data, but isn’t comfortable enough to process it for further research. The obvious solution was to dump this … Continue reading →

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A Simple Race-Condition

Posted on 2009-06-28 by lorg

Lately, I’ve mostly been working on my startup. It’s a web-application, and one of the first things I’ve written was a cache mechanism for some lengthy operations. Yesterday, I found a classic race-condition in that module. I won’t present the … Continue reading →

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Actual Data Always Needs To Be Explicit

Posted on 2009-04-10 by lorg

This might seem obvious, but it wasn’t to me it first. Now I consider it a database design rule of thumb, or even a patten. I’ll explain using an example. Consider an application where you also need automatic tagging of … Continue reading →

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Database Design Problem

Posted on 2009-02-22 by lorg

A few weeks ago, I had to work out a database design for my startup. I had a bit of a hard time deciding on a design direction, but after thinking about it, I settled on a design I was … Continue reading →

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