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As of 5:00PM PST PostgreSQL Conference West 2010 became the largest PostgreSQL Conference in the series. The conference is also still growing as registrations continue to come in.

Not only do we have more attendees coming to West than we did East, we have more content than we did at East. It seems that with every 6 months comes a new milestone for the series. PgWest 2010 has 3 full …

I can't believe how far we have come from a single day, Saturday "PgDay" in 2007 to a full blown three day conference in the middle of the week. Twice a year, every year we have grown, adding content, reaching out to users, bringing the entire ecosystem together. The PgWest and PgEast conferences have grown to comprise the largest PostgreSQL conferences, anywhere.

Now that West is upon us in just …

PostgreSQL Conference West 2010 also known as PgWest, is having a party for attendees from 5:30pm to 8:30pm on November 3rd. Located on the 21st floor of the Sir Francis Drake Hotel, the 360-degree view from the Starlight Room is as breathtaking as any in the world, encompassing brilliant sunsets or rolling fog, city lights, and landmarks from Telegraph Hill to the Bay Bridge. Harry Denton's Starlight Room is the …

There has been a lot of talk lately about this idea of "NoSQL". A lot of database traditionalists have been very down on the idea that something else is a better way to extract and store data. I have been in SQL land for so long that I can't even form a credible opinion on the matter. I know that SQL (for the most part) is logical. It makes sense …

PostgreSQL Conference West is continuing to shape up as the largest PostgreSQL Conference, ever. We have a significant, solid and eclectic range of talks.

One of the talks that was just finalized today is, Deployment Best Practices. This is a great beginner talk. What I like about this talk is that is is from a tried and true, in the trenches company that has been using PostgreSQL since the …

PostgreSQL Conference West (PgWest) 2010, the premiere PostgreSQL Conference for developers, users and decision makers is pleased to welcome Sun Microsystems founder, Scott McNealy as Key Note Speaker.

Please join us November 2nd - 4th at the Sir Francis Drake Hotel in sunny San Francisco for three days of networking, education, geeks, food and fun!

Registration is now open. The Agenda is available. As are the full talk descriptions!

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Most people are aware that we use Drupal for the PostgreSQL Conference. We are loud advocates of the platform, because it works -- mostly. In terms of being able to run a conference it is flexible enough to make it quirks bearable. However the one place that Drupal is severely lacking is event/scheduling. What is available is either lacking, broken, or just not yet done. Because of this we …

While at PgEast or PgWest I normally don't attend talks. Usually I am running around checking on rooms, making sure cameras are working or just generally recovering from yet another round of social interaction with everyone that is there. Do not kid yourself, it is exhausting.

This year at West I am hoping to attend a couple of talks. There are a few that are particularly interesting to me. The …

The Utah Open Source Conference is coming up next week and I will be speaking on PostgreSQL. The presentation I was selected to give is my Dumb Simple PostgreSQL Performance talk.

This talk aims to solve the performance (and maintenance) problems most associated with a default install of PostgreSQL. The depth of the talk is limited and is designed specifically for people who are *not* database people, e.g; Web Developers …

I was sitting in #postgresql today (no not the twitter, the irc) talking to some of the community peeps and I came across this tidbit. MySQL casts integers to float before division[1]. Say what?

mysql> SELECT 3/5;
        -> 0.60

To be honest, I can't fault MySQL for this behavior. It falls in line with the MySQL mantra of make it easy, not "necessarily" correct. A division of 3/5 in a …