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Sebastian Dressler

Sebastian Dressler

I am currently Solutions Architect at Swarm64. I like to play with PostgreSQL and applications around it. The more data, the better.

Rust `struct` conversion to and from C `void*`

Dec 26, 20207 min read

I thought it would be a good idea to write a PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper (FDW) in Rust with PGX. My top three reasons: Learn how to write an...

Rust `struct` conversion to and from C `void*`

Excel gone wild - fetch data from PostgreSQL via Python

Oct 22, 20204 min read

I am benchmarking quite a lot these days. My latest toy is a homemade HTAP workload based on TPC-C and TPC-H. Written in Python and PL/pgSQL. The...

Excel gone wild - fetch data from PostgreSQL via Python

Bash patterns I use #3: run something in variations.

Oct 10, 20201 min read

This is part three of the "Bash patterns" series. The second part covers argument parsing. True story: my CMO asks me to run this benchmark. But, this...

Bash patterns I use #3: run something in variations.

Bash patterns I use #2: argument parsing.

Oct 8, 20202 min read

This is the 2nd part of the "Bash patterns I use" series. The first pattern covered Limiting parallelism in Bash. In this part I'll show what I...

Bash patterns I use #2: argument parsing.

(PL/pg)SQL patterns I use

Oct 5, 20203 min read

This is supposed to be the addition to the other patterns post "Bash patterns I use" but for SQL and/or PL/pgSQL. Create partitions with a function...

(PL/pg)SQL patterns I use

Bash patterns I use

Oct 5, 20202 min read

This post will be a collection of some patterns I typically use when working with Bash. There's not much in here yet, as I just now got the idea to...

Bash patterns I use