Re: New Zealand Postgis DBA job vacancy

[Martin Gainty <mgainty@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

most of us in the US choose to be *delightfully ignorant* of anything that doesnt fit into our 30 seconds (or less) lifestyle

metric system requires rudimentary math skills instead of entertainment so we collectively choose not to think of such things

I spent 3 months outside the US this year and was *forced* to use my brain to convert petrol containers from liters to US gallons

It was nice to be able to come back to the US to put your brain *in park* and let the big brains in the statehouses and Washington
tell us
-what to do and
-provide us the funding to do their bidding

at least until 1 Jan 2013!
 
so...why doesn't Postgres port to embedded systems?
Martin Gainty 
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Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2012 08:45:22 +1300
From: GavinFlower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: adrian.klaver@xxxxxxxxx
CC: mgainty@xxxxxxxxxxx; pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: New Zealand Postgis DBA job vacancy

On 27/12/12 08:33, Adrian Klaver wrote:

On 12/26/2012 11:20 AM, Gavin Flower wrote:

On 27/12/12 07:39, Adrian Klaver wrote:

On 12/26/2012 10:30 AM, Gavin Flower wrote:

Please do not top post!


In New Zealand we generally use petrol, or diesel, measured in litres -
though there are some cars powered by natural gas.  I think the USA is
one of the few places not using the metric system.

Actually we do, we just pretend we don't:)

Cheers,
Gavin

Actually, I learnt the metric system mostly from an American textbook on
Physics at high school in year 12 (then called 6th form for us).

In a round about way, I came to use Postgres to help deal with our split personality regarding the metric system. I was working at a greenhouse at the time and new rules came down from the Federal government dealing with the tagging of plant material for retail sale. One of the rules was that the tags must list the volume of the container the plant was sold in and that the volume should be in both imperial and metric units. This was just the tip of the iceberg, so I put together a database solution to track all the necessary information. After some false starts I settled on Postgres as the back end.

In New Zealand, we spend a lot more time putting down Australians than
Americans - but if anyone was to try and invade Australia, then the half
of New Zealanders not already living in Australia would rush to defend it.

Sort of the way we look at Canadians, especially since half of BC seems to be in town at the moment.

There is nothing wrong with prejudice, so long as it does not interfere with business & friendship!
(I would steer clear of my wife's husband, as he has a perverse sense of humour so he can't be trusted!)
 
I have a close friend who is working on embedded software for a green house controller.  He would love to use PostgreSQL, but they started using SQLite and pg does not appear to be suitable for embedded systems.


Cheers,
Gavin