New Releases of PostgreSQL and Other Articles About Databases
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PostgreSQL 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20 Released!< h5>
The PostgreSQL Global Development Group has released an update to all supported versions of PostgreSQL, including 15.3, 14.8, 13.11, 12.15, and 11.20. This release fixes two security vulnerabilities and over 80 bugs reported over the last several months.
For the full list of changes, please review the release notes.
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It's not just cloud costs that are out of control
We're letting our yearly commitment to Datadog, a performance and monitoring tool, expire at the end of this month. Not because we don't like the service. It's actually really nice! But because the $88,000/year it was going to cost us to continue is just ridiculous. And it's emblematic of a larger issue: Enterprise SaaS pricing is getting silly.
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Doctrine - difference between bindValue() and setParameter() on prepared statements
This pissed me off and I couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong. So I'm blogging about my ignorance.
Imagine you're using Symfony and Doctrine to access a database. You are using prepared statements to prevent any SQL injection problems.
There are two main ways of doing this - and they disagree about how positional variables should be specified.