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5 items on 21 Aug 2026
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Shaun Thomas: The Time Traveler's Primary Key

Every table needs a way to tell its rows apart, and auto-incrementing surrogate keys have been the go-to solution since practically the dawn of time. They're simple. They're fast. And perhaps most importantly, they're…

Source: Planet PostgreSQL
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Alexey Evlampiev: The Request Becomes a Transaction

The Request Becomes a Transaction# A transactional API has two halves: a network edge and a transactional operation. Keep the first at that edge; give the second to PostgreSQL, where its authority already lives — and…

Source: Planet PostgreSQL

Fuzzy String Matching in Django and PostgreSQL

Django and PostgreSQL can handle fuzzy name matching with Soundex, Daitch-Mokotoff, Levenshtein distance, and trigram similarity, each suited to different kinds of misspellings and phonetic variation. The article shows…

Source: Python Hub Digest