Correction: SIPS is the scriptable image processing system, SIP is system integrity protection.

Those criteria seem pretty good. All those companies should be broken up and required to make certain divestitures until they no longer to-big-to-fail, oligarchical, anti-competitive etc.

there have been a few attempts at adding TDE to postgresql. I think the cybertec patches are probably the most notable https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/postgresql/tree/15tde...

UMENU https://www.troubleshooters.com/umenu/index.htm

it might work but keep in mind schema changes in cockroachdb very different under the hood. for one they are not transactional and run in the background https://www.cockroachlabs.com/docs/stable/online-schema-chan...

See my other comment. Unfortunately Cockroach doesn't do much in terms of helping with zero-downtime schema migrations :/

P-star https://www.p-star.org/

can we chat over email? contact is hn username at gmail.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA3SBgcZwtE. Good talk by a core developer

This is another presentation from a core developer: https://momjian.us/main/writings/pgsql/optimizer.pdf

For me it was moving in with my fiance. I read out loud to her every night till she falls asleep.

Can you clarify if you mean "tailored" or if you are making Taylorism into a verb "taylored"? Since it appears so close in your comment to "mass manufacturing" I'm having difficulty distinguishing the meaning.