April 2025

Rusty gave airport a spring cleaning, adding ALTER support to keep those database schemas flexible and testing out some shiny new extension-ci-tools. Two commits, one mission: making sure the extension infrastructure stays as smooth as a runway on a clear day.

Rusty entered a commit-message Groundhog Day on airport, hammering "fix: add awscli" eight times in a row before finally breaking the spell with a vcpkg fix. Whether this was a deployment pipeline doing its best impression of a broken record or an existential meditation on the nature of AWS tooling, the result was nine commits of pure infrastructure determination.

Rusty spent the day locked in an epic battle with AWS credentials on airport, committing the same fix ten times in a row like a developer caught in a particularly stubborn CI/CD time loop. After adding awscli to the mix, he proceeded to hammer away at secret-passing issues with the persistence of someone who knows it should work and refuses to accept defeat.

Rusty spent the day in a committed relationship with vcpkg caching on airport, hitting the "fix: try out new vcpkg cache config" button five times like a developer debugging CI infrastructure in real-time. Sometimes the path to build optimization is paved with iterative experimentation—or as some call it, "learning by doing (and doing, and doing...)."

Rusty tiptoed through the airport-docs repository with a pair of "wip" commits, leaving breadcrumbs of progress but no grand reveal. Sometimes the best documentation is written in draft mode, where the real magic happens between the lines—or at least that's what we're telling ourselves today.

Rusty spent the day expanding type support in duckdb-query-tools, adding double and float handling (important enough to commit twice, apparently). He also tinkered with airport-docs in what he cryptically labeled "work in process," and chimed in on issue #271 in duckdb/community-extensions to discuss minimum version metadata—because even DuckDB extensions need a good versioning philosophy.

Rusty spent Monday wrestling with CI gremlins in airport, ultimately rewarding himself with full DuckDB function call serialization support for flight locations—a feature that sounds both technically impressive and vaguely magical. Meanwhile, cloudwatch-log-redirector got some dependency TLC with AWS version bumps, because even log redirectors need to stay fresh.

Rusty kept the gears turning on airport with a dependency bump—the maintenance equivalent of changing the oil before a road trip. Not every day needs fireworks; sometimes it's just about keeping the engine clean and dependencies fresh.

Rusty spent his Saturday wrangling Parquet files in the wild, teaching airport how to handle external file locations. A single commit that probably saved someone from a world of path-related pain—sometimes the best days are about fixing the little things that matter.

Rusty tidied up the dependency garden in evalexpr_rhai with a pair of cargo bump commits, because nothing says "Friday maintenance mode" quite like keeping the supply chain fresh. He also chimed in on issue #16 over at duckdb-iceberg, discussing Iceberg REST Catalog support and lending his DuckDB expertise to the community—because even on a light day, someone's gotta answer the tough questions.

Rusty squashed a bug in airport today, adding initials support to the ipc-stream and ipc-file endpoints—because apparently even data serialization formats deserve a proper introduction. A single, focused commit proves that sometimes quality trumps quantity.

Rusty turbocharged the airport DuckDB extension by enabling Flight endpoint parallelism—because sometimes you need multiple runways to handle all that data traffic. A single surgical commit that promises to make queries take off faster than before.

Rusty spent the day deep in the cockpit of airport, making 10 commits focused on housekeeping and architectural improvements. The work involved streamlining bind data structures, removing AirportTakeFlightScanData in favor of a cleaner approach, and polishing up global state management—the kind of refactoring that makes future Rusty grateful.

Rusty spent the day channeling his inner code janitor, methodically working through cppcheck warnings on airport with three cleanup commits. Sometimes the unglamorous work of addressing static analysis feedback is what keeps the codebase healthy—think of it as flossing for C++ code.

Rusty embarked on a cleanup crusade across 11 repos, hunting down an unused struct member in ArrowScanLocalState like a memory-conscious vigilante. The archaeological dig culminated in PR #17023 on duckdb/duckdb, while he also squeezed in some substantial refactoring on airport—reworking global/local state for scans and moving progress reporting to bind data. Nothing says "I care about code quality" quite like propagating the same fix across nearly a dozen community DuckDB projects.

Rusty spent the day spring cleaning airport, committing seven times with messages that all screamed "fix: cleanups" like a todo list gone mad. The real work lurked beneath the repetition: refactoring schema exam functions and migrating local and global init functions into place, proving that sometimes the messiest commit logs hide the most methodical refactoring.

Rusty channeled his inner Marie Kondo on airport, executing a trio of cleanup commits that spark joy (or at least sparked slightly more maintainable code). Sometimes the best progress is the kind that makes yesterday's work look a little less embarrassing.

Rusty embarked on a cleanup spree in airport, committing the same "fix: cleanups" message five times like a developer stuck in a time loop. He also surfaced two thorny issues around Arrow extension types and UUID handling in the Delta Lake ecosystem (issue #179 on duckdb-delta and issue #3363 on delta-rs), then chimed in on PR #16749 in the core duckdb repo to discuss table function metadata—keeping his finger on the pulse of the community.

Rusty entered a zen-like cleanup trance on airport, committing the same "fix: cleanups" message six times in a row—either achieving peak code tidiness through incremental perfection, or demonstrating that even developers celebrate April Fools' Day with commit message performance art. The repository emerged spotless, though the git log now reads like a minimalist haiku.