# 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…

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](<http://www.postgresqlconference.org/>) is the expand the knowledge of the community and to extend a hand to secondary communities, inviting them learn, collaborate and drink with us. By inviting MongoDB, we are doing exactly that. It is my sincerest hope that we can get a lot of the MongoDB users to better understand our ways, as cranky and old-school as they may be and in return, we will learn some of their ways, perhaps making PostgreSQL even better. 

Consider, what if our upcoming SQL/MED support in 9.1 had a foreign data wrapper that was optimized for MongoDB? 

Remember folks, [CFP is still open](<https://www.postgresqlconference.org/talk_types>)

And of course, many thanks to the PostgreSQL Conference Sponsors: 

  * Command Prompt, Inc. (Us) 
  * [EnterpriseDB](<http://www.enterprisedb.com/>)
  * [Continuent](<http://www.continuent.com/>)
  * [2nd Quadrant](<http://www.2ndquadrant.com/>)
  * [SQL Manager](<http://www.sqlmanager.net/>)

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