twittering on 2011-03-25

  • in to #pgeast early. breakfast sandwich. water. in Jeff Davis' talk on range types #pgeast #
  • had hilarious conversation with John Scoles (http://chesnok.com/u/Z) about his work studying narwals. #pgeast #
  • (apparently, the 'r' is rolled when you say narwal) #
  • Omg coffee #pgeast #
  • in "large customers want postgresql too" http://bit.ly/eFcgEU #pgeast #
  • requirement: the cobol post-processer generating a C module to run SQL has to run faster than it does on the mainframe #lulz #pgeast #
  • "when we can save $250k, that's enough for me. an extra couple million is nothing to these guys for licenses." #
  • "when we can save $250k, that's enough for me. an extra couple million is nothing to these guys for licenses." #pgeast #enterprisey #
  • "COBOL program never knows what happened to it." #pgeast #
  • experience contributing ECPG code for caching queries to #postgres "was fairly painless and was in the next release" #pgeast #
  • Magnus' first slide #pgeast #jdcon http://t.co/1AiX5Xi #
  • Reminder: COPY API is newly exposed in PostgreSQL 9.1 #pgeast #fdw #
  • postgres_fdw will be in 9.2, so keep using dblink for now #pgeast #fdw #
  • Second COBOL reference in a talk at #pgeast #drinkinggame #
  • Andrew's ongoing work on Foreign Data Wrappers for #postgres https://github.com/adunstan #fdw #
  • "must rescan return the same tuples as the first scan?" "only if you want it to return correct results." #pgeast #
  • "Private cloud is a dead end." "You lose out on all the economies of scale that are the benefits of the cloud." -Heroku #pgeast #
  • OH: "there's a target for beer here." regarding VMWare guy who can't talk about whether they'll ever offer a public cloud #
  • "i don't expect marketing fluff" -audience member #pgeast #ftw #cloudpanel #
  • Oh cool, yet another thing implemented as a PL in Postgres: http://bit.ly/fhh9hr #
  • in jon erdman's pgq and monitoring talk #pgeast #
  • Pretty much everyone is hiring at #PgEast #
  • OH: "we pay about 30k per terabyte." #
  • Just met dba at Donors Choose. Such a great organization and they use postgres! http://t.co/hJNoqlP #pgeast #
  • The guy in the sweatshirt just punched someone in the street http://t.co/kaRfgNA #
  • Made it! http://t.co/EmpCC21 #