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 …

As everyone already knows, PostgreSQL Conference East is happening on March 25th through March 28th in Philadelphia. However, what is new is, early bird registration is now open and we have confirmed the three classes that will be taught on Sunday the 28th.

• PostgreSQL Administration by Bruce Momjian.
• PostgreSQL Performance and Maintenance by Joshua D. Drake (yes me)
• Point and Time Recovery and Hot Standby by Chander Ganesan.

The conference …

We announced the CFP for PostgreSQL Conference East back in December. Since that time, we have been working diligently to make this the best PostgreSQL Conference ever presented in the United States. The signing of Platinum partner EnterpriseDB and the subsequent change of venue has been an exciting foray into a new phase of the PostgreSQL Conference series.

However, what has really surprised me is the number of individual emails …

East 2010 is taking it up a notch! This year, along with Platinum Partner EnterpriseDB, we will be making an aggressive marketing campaign not only to community but also professionals, and decision makers. With this aggressive marketing campaign we have adjusted the conference to be four days, March 25th - 28th. We have also moved from Drexel University to the Radison Plaza, Warwick Hotel. This is to better allow for …

Call for papers.

December 14th, 2009, the PostgreSQL Conference U.S. team is pleased to announce the East 2010 venue and call for papers. This year the premiere East Coast PostgreSQL Conference will be returning to history Drexel University in Philadelphia. The event this year is being held at Drexel University in Philadelphia from March 26th through 28th. Following previously successful United States PostgreSQL conferences, we will be hosting a series …

Shout out to Mark Long and Lacey Powers for showing up to support a Pg dude in a foreign land. Preceding my talk on PostgreSQL Performance, Adam Lowry gave and interesting intro to a database connection pooling module he wrote for Django. Essentially they bolted SQLAlchemy's pooler into Django. He then gave some metrics, showing that through the connection pooler they dropped overall request time in half. It was a …

I have the unexpected pleasure of speaking at PDXDjango tonight on PostgreSQL performance. Their meetings are 90 minutes with about 60 minutes (in theory) for the main speaker. The talk I am giving is a quick introduction to PostgreSQL Performance. The description I gave to the group was:

• I am a Django developer not a DBA.
• I know nothing about PostgreSQL performance.
• What 10 things (it will be more) can …

I am back home and done recovering from Pg West 2009. I can now provide some closing thoughts. I think the conference as a whole went very well. This is the first time we did a zero swag conference and the majority of people didn't seem to mind. SWAG is probably the single largest contributor to time spent organizing a conference (in a single block). By not having swag has …

What an amazing Friday. Normally on Fridays, PgWest and East are sparsely populated. Usually running in the mid 50s. Today was a great day with 87 people attending and many more slated to attend on Saturday. Even some unexpected contributors showed up such as Robert Bernier. If you are reasonably close, and if you are thinking about coming; now is the time to make the commitment. If you are here …

Well I made it to Seattle. It was a bit of disaster to get here with my Wife flatly stating she was suing a well known Mexican restaurant for hot beans and bad signing from a well known pop star. I have a meeting today with the college to verify facilities. I then pick up the programs. Of course the "suites" at Spring Hill Suites are not really suites but …