Manjaro pacman update errors
From time to time (particularly on laptops that do not get updated as often as they should) you may get errors about signatures that prevent manjaro from updating. To get around this try the following: sudo pacman -Syy archlinux-keyring manjaro-keyring sudo pacman-key –init sudo pacman-key –populate and now you should be able to update in […]
Vim plugins
The vim configuration file on a user basis is ~/.vimrc. If you don’t have this file then make it. I always like to start vim with numbering on so the first thing I put in this file is set number The global configuration file is /etc/vimrc. in here I like to uncomment the following […]
Using PQexecparams with a char** array
In short, if you are creating an array of arguments to pass to PQexecparams() (i.e. char**) then you need to leave enough space to null terminate the array. Many C programs use a while loop to iterate through an array until they find a null pointer i.e. while (*argv) { //foo ++argv; } As […]
Overloading functions when using time_t
One of the problems that we have when using postgresql is the management of time stamps. This is especially true when using PQexecparams() for reasons that I will not go in to in this post; suffice it to say that when building INSERT statements that use time stamps you may need to get creative. One […]
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