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PgCon 2010 – PL/Parrot, Simulated Annealing, Exclusion Constraints, Postgres-XC

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

PgCon this year was full of bold ideas, delivered in the quiet manner typical of the Postgres community. Talks by Jonathan Leto, Jan Urbanski and Jeff Davis all presented new features and ideas that show there is so much room yet in Postgres as a project to contribute, and innovate. I was also delighted to [...]

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Lightning talks from PgCon 2010

Friday, May 21, 2010

Thanks again to all the folks that volunteered to give five minute talks during the Lightning talks session at PgCon!
Our lightning talks this year were:

PostgreSQL Developer Meeting in Five Minutes – Bruce Momjian
Slony 1 => 2.0 – Steve Singer
PostgreSQL and Twisted – Jan Urbanski
The FlyMine Project – Matthew Wakeling
Enhanced Tools for PostgreSQL – Tomonari [...]

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Need reviewers – preparing for the first commitfest for 9.1

Thursday, May 20, 2010

Now is the perfect time to get involved in Postgres development!
Starting June 15, we’re going to have a “reviewfest”, as a prelude to the first commitfest in July. We’ve already got 28 patches in the queue, and all need reviewers.
Think you’re not qualified to review patches? Think again!
From the Reviewing a Patch documentation:

If you [...]

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OpenSQLCamp was awesome!

Monday, November 16, 2009

Thanks to everyone who attended OpenSQLCamp this past weekend in Portland, OR! More than 100 people participated – developers, DBAs and hobbyists from all over the world. Database developers participated from PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Drizzle, TokuDB, LucidDB, MongoDB, Cassandra, CouchDB and many more.
The great thing about these events is the opportunity to [...]

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Perl Mongers, Open SQL Camp and JPUG 10th anniversary coming up

Sunday, November 8, 2009

I’ve got a busy couple of weeks in November:

November 11, 2009 – I’m presenting Bucardo (a sweet replication system for Postgres) at the Portland Perl Mongers group, 7pm at Free Geek.
November 13-14, 2009 – I’ll be helping run OpenSQL Camp with Eric Day here in Portland, OR. We’re having it at Souk, and [...]

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GSoC Mentor Summit and the new mentor’s manual

Saturday, October 24, 2009

I’ve been in San Jose since Wednesday, working on a book and preparing for today’s Google Summer of Code Mentor’s Summit. We’re here at Google’s campus, setting up the schedule and meeting new and old friends.
A group of us – me, Jen, Alex, Bart, Jonathan, Leslie and Olly – worked with Adam Hyde from Flossmanuals.net [...]

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Enterprising PgWest conference speaker makes an after-party wiki page!

Friday, October 9, 2009

Please see the page that PgWest Speaker Gabrielle Roth made to help organize a party for the evening of 10/17/09:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/After-Thing
If you’re interested in attending, add your name to the wiki page, and the party organizers will do their best to secure a good location.
thanks!

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Snow Leopard and PostgreSQL: installation help links

Sunday, October 4, 2009

A few reports of issues have been raised on the mailing lists around upgrading to Snow Leopard. There have been some good tutorials and hints posted on blogs that aren’t in the planet.postgresql.org roll, so here are a few things that might help you out:

Installing PostgreSQL on Snow Leopard 10.6
Snow Leopard wipes out the [...]

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User Group Idea: Present what you do for work

Monday, September 28, 2009

One consistently interesting topic for our PDXPUG meetings has essentially been show and tell. Presenters answer the question: what is it that I do for work?
We’ve had oceanography, GIS, relational algebra and even MySQL presentations that stem from this idea.
For the most part, those of us who do database work are so specialized that [...]

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User Group Idea: Patch Review Party

Friday, September 18, 2009

On Tuesday, I invited a group of people from PDXPUG over to my house for chili, beer and patch review. PostgreSQL has what we’re calling a ‘commitfest‘ every two months where we buckle down and try to review and commit (or reject) the patches submitted over the last few weeks. Webb and Gabrielle had the [...]

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