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
