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Text Editor Data Structures

Text editors can be an interesting challenge to program. The types of problems that text editors need to solve can range from trivial to mind-bogglingly difficult. Recently, I have been on something of a spiritual journey to rework some internal data structures in an editor I have been building, specifically the most…

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SVG Images from Postgres

We are excited to announce a new set of functions to generate svgs from Postgres and PostGIS! This gives you really easy maps, images, or charts directly from your database. Once you start reading through these samples, you'll want to start playing with images from your database.

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When LIMIT 9 works but LIMIT 10 hangs

I got a Slack message from colleagues at a major partner. They’d updated their dev environment to support WebSockets, so that Neon’s serverless driver could be used there, but then they’d run into a weird issue. The nub of it was this: This hangs: This works Reproducibly, the query without an ORDER BY ran fine […]