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