Postgres and Open Source Experts

I am an avid Ubuntu user. I like their philosophy. I like their code of conduct. I like what they are trying to do with Linux as a whole. I invite everyone to use Ubuntu. Unfortunately I have been unable to upgrade from Karmic. Why? Well, update-manager -d doesn't work because of some error with ubunut-minimal which (yes I researched it) was supposedly fixed, but it isn't. Yay!

I figured, …

Last week I delivered a PL/Perl talk at CodeCamp conference in Kyiv, Ukraine. The conference has been held at Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, which is one of the top technical schools in Ukraine, so there were both really smart students and seasoned engineers. I talked about Perl inside PostgreSQL, deciding to highlight interesting features of PL/Perl with examples, hopefully covering most of them. Some of the attendees used PostgreSQL in production …

The great folks of Linux Fest Nortwest are hosting a PostgreSQL Track again this year. I will be speaking twice. First on what has ended up being a very popular utility, PITRTools. My second talk will be on Dumb Simple PostgreSQL Performance, which has been very popular with user groups. I look forward to seeing everyone again.

So PgEast is over. You wouldn't know it yet by looking at the website, but it is. We maxed out at ~ 160 people. That is an almost 2x increase over last year at East. It is also a significant increase over West last October. This is an exciting time for this conference series.

The trainings were also successful, I had 19 (of a max 20) show for my Performance …

I called the our hotel representative today because I was confused about why we had a deadline of 03/11 on the room discount. I was trying to push them to extend the date because we had met our room quota and I was wondering why they were trying to shut down the discount. Apparently, not only have we met our room quota, but the hotel is reaching capacity!

If you …

As we continue the countdown to the largest community and user conference in PostgreSQL history I am reminded of all the great content we have had in the past. Today while I was reviewing the curriculum for the PostgreSQL Performance and Maintenance class, I came across this great talk by Bruce Momjian as a further example of the high quality information you will receive not only from the various trainings …

PostgreSQL Conference East, the largest PostgreSQL Conference for Users, Developers, Decision makers and anyone using PostgreSQL arranged for a hotel discount for attendees from the Radisson Warwick Hotel (the location of the conference).

The retail price of a double room is ~ 199.00. The discount rate is 132.00.

If you are attending PostgreSQL Conference East and you would like the discount you must register by the 11th of March. For …

As we inch closer to PostgreSQL Conference East, I have been reviewing some of the great talks given at PostgreSQL Conference West. One of those talks was Josh Berkus's great, "5 Steps to PostgreSQL Performance". Here it is below:

I blogged last week about a small list of content being up for the conference. I am now pleased to announce that 99% of the topics are up. I would say 100% but I keep getting new talks that look good and am trying to accommodate them as the schedule allows. When I review the talks, I see a lot of good content. Of particular interest to me is the …

When we moved PostgreSQL Conference East (register here)from a three day to a four day conference, I was concerned about our ability to pull it off. Primarily our conferences have been centered about the who's who of PostgreSQL. A nice mix of known contributors and avid users. A lot of the users, we would already knew as they contribute on the lists.
The migration to four days caused …