Author name: Dan Langille

I've been playing with Open Source software, starting with FreeBSD, since New Zealand Post installed DSL on my street in 1998. From there, I started writing at The FreeBSD Diary, moving my work here after I discovered WordPress. Along the way, I started the BSDCan and PGCon conferences. I slowly moved from software development into full time systems administration and now work for very-well known company who has been a big force in the security industry.

Commit cache clearing

Following on from yesterdays Quarterly branches: what’s next? and Processing commits on branches with git, I’ve started in on clearing commits from cache. The code First step, create a table which looks like this: freshports.devgit=# \d cache_clearing_commits Table “public.cache_clearing_commits” Column | Type | Collation | Nullable | Default —————–+—————————–+———–+———-+——— commit_to_clear | text | | not […]

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FreshPorts will disable user login/updates on March 31 as part of transition to git

Hello, The changeover from subversion to git for the FreeBSD project enters it’s final stage about three hours from now (as I type this). At 3:01 UTC on Mar 31 2021, the repository will become read-only. The full schedule for that process is in the FreeBSD wiki. The first git commit is not expected until

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to_tsquery gives ‘ERROR: syntax error in tsquery’ when it contains a space

I had noticed a problem with my full text search solution when I was testing. If the input query contained a quote, an error resulted on the query. At the time, I attributed that to a poor input/text handling. Later, I realized I was wrong. On the website, this PHP code is used: Where $this->Query

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