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#PgEast Training Schedule is up

The training (not sessions) schedule is up for #PgEast trainings. You can get it right off the front page. We are running 7 sessions in parallel with a total of 9 trainings.

The hash code is: #PgEast (want 30% off?)

It is 21 days to PostgreSQL Conference East (#PgEast), which is set once again to break attendance records of all the western world conferences. Hosted in NYC, we have large number of sessions, over 60 speakers, a full day of trainings, an excellent NYCPug meeting at the event, and an excessive number of sponsors (nahh... we need 3x more, sponsors ROCK!). I am truly humbled at the amazing level of …

PgEast: Talks up and Registration open!

That's right folks, the PostgreSQL Conference East has listed 98% of its talks. We have a lot of great talks, mini-tutorials and trainings.

A simple agenda follows:

  • March 22nd is training day.
    Trainings range from 199.00 to 349.00 depending on half or full day.
  • March 23rd - 25th is the conference.
    The registration is 249.00

    In particular I am interested to see how Four Square is using MongoDB and …

PgEast: CFP closes, TODAY!

Alright folks, last call. It is beer thirty. CFP closes today. Let's get those talks in:

Submit Talk to PgEast

PgEast: 2011 CFP closes in 3 days!

Alright slackers, you know who you are. The constant presence at every conference. The speaker, that submits their talk at 11:59PM before the CFP closes, I am talking to YOU! In three days, the CFP for what is going to be the largest PostgreSQL Conference in the Western World to date (I say Western because JPUG kicks U.S. butt in attendance just at their user meetings alone), is going to …

MongoDB at PgEast.... say what?

I was surprised at first too but I have been talking to quite a few community members for MongoDB and due to the positive responses, PostgreSQL Conference East is going to be host to the excellent MongoDB community.

JD, Why would you do this? Why do we care? We are relational, they -- well I don't know what they are.

One of the goals of The PostgreSQL Conference Series is …

PostgreSQL vs MySQL @ Oracle NYC Head Quarters NYC (my brain just broke)

In my quest to insure an incredible turnout for PostgreSQL Conference, I contacted the MySQL meetup group in NYC. Of course my reasons were simple, I want MySQL people to show up and see the value of PostgreSQL. However, I learned a couple of new things.

PgEast: 2011, Second call for papers!

January 18th, 2011: Celebrating 15 years of PostgreSQL, early.

That's right folks, it is time for second call. Content is being submitted steadily. At PgWest last year, we received well over our capacity of content and we would like to keep that trend going.

The PostgreSQL Conference for Developers,End Users and Decision Makers, is being held at the Hotel Pennsylvania,in New York City from March 22nd through 25th 2011. Please …

PgEast 2011: NYC Call for papers

December 16th, 2010: Celebrating 15 years of PostgreSQL, early.

Following on the smashing success of PostgreSQL Conference West, PostgreSQL Conference West, The PostgreSQL Conference for Developers, End Users and Decision Makers, is being held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, in New York City from March 22nd through 25th 2011. Please join us in continuing to make this the largest PostgreSQL Conference series!

R.I.P. PostgreSQL (Mammoth) Replicator

In 2004, PostgreSQL Core Team member Josh Berkus wrote[1]:

"Slony-I is undoubtedly our most popular replication tool. It supports Master-Slave High Availability Replication. However, there are a number of other solutions, such as dbMirror, eRServer, pgPool, C-JDBC, and the proprietary Mammoth Replicator, all of which are in wide use because they solve different replication problems than Slony-I does. Replication is not a single solution for a single problem; it is …