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PgWest 2010: Talk Descriptions are up

The talk descriptions for PgWest 2010 are now up. As you can see, there is a lot of content that will be presented over the three days. There is a great mix of developer and user (DBA) content. If you haven't done so already, now is the time to register.

PgWest, have you booked your room?

If you have not booked your room for PgWest, now is the time. There is a very real possibility that the cost of the hotel will go up in the next week. Now is not the time to be a traditional geek procrastinator.

Oracle MySQL increasing support pricing

Oracle MySQL recently started sending letters to their current clients about upcoming price changes[1]. It is certainly expected that Oracle would increase pricing, but I wonder by how much?

Oracle owns another fairly well known Open Source database, BerkeleyDB. The pricing for BerkeleyDB. suggests that MySQL may be in for a culture shock. MySQL appears to have removed their support pricing from its website (a move that should not provide …

Break out your credit card, support #PGXN

PGXN is the stuff. It is going to enable a whole new ecosystem of software for PostgreSQL complete with easy install, easy search, modular design and yeah unfortunately Perl.

That said, it is time to pony up. David Wheeler has put in some serious effort, well thought out, professionally designed and peer reviewed effort on delivering a new architecture for PostgreSQL software and modules. He needs our financial support.

Go …

Interviewed by Linux.com

So, I broke down at purchased my Linux Foundation membership. Shortly thereafter I was requested to be interviewed. Here it is.

PgWest 2010 Early Bird Registration Open!

We are still finalizing the three days of content but the first tutorials of the conference have been accepted and early bird registration is now open.

Tutorials:

Test Driven
Database Development
Building an Open Geospatial Analysis Technology Stack
Normalization Workshop
GUCs: a Three-Hour Tour
Django and PostgreSQL

Mini-tutorials:

PostgreSQL Backup and Recovery Methods
MVCC Unmasked
The PostgreSQL Query Planner
Writing C Functions and C User Defined Types on Windows Using …

Is your PgWest 2010 presentation submitted?

One of the aspects of the Open Source community I love is the agile, on demand nature of getting things done. If a feature is missing, you can just add it and you can add it on demand, as you need it. If a bug is present, you can fix it yourself or pay someone else like CMD to fix it for you.

Unlike other communities that are closed where …

PgWest 2010, CFP about to close!

Yes, we said it was the 5th that the CFP would be closing but then we belatedly realized that a good portion of the United States would be having a BBQ and drinking whatever their favorite beverage is over the weekend. Thus in true PostgreSQL fashion, PgWest is missing its CFP release date but only for a week! That means, submit your paper, now.

PgWest: 2010 Call for Papers (2nd call)

Yes, it is the second call. That means some of you haven't submitted after the first call. Of course, I haven't submitted mine either; so it is time for everyone to get on it. West is just around the corner and from all observations this West stands to be the largest PostgreSQL Conference, ever. (O.k. we might not over take Brazil).

Here is the announcement for everyone to review, enjoy …

An update on Replicator

This is my first post on Replicator, I'm going to start by describing the terminology we use, bringing some analogies from other replication systems.

Replicator is an asynchronous master-to-multiple-slaves replication system. It works by propagating binary changes from a single read-write node (called master) to one or more read-only nodes (called slaves) through an intermediary (forwarder) process. The data changes are stored in binary transaction files on a per-transaction basis. …

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PgWest 2010: Talk Descriptions are up

PgWest, have you booked your room?

Oracle MySQL increasing support pricing

Break out your credit card, support #PGXN

Interviewed by Linux.com

PgWest 2010 Early Bird Registration Open!

Is your PgWest 2010 presentation submitted?

PgWest 2010, CFP about to close!

PgWest: 2010 Call for Papers (2nd call)

An update on Replicator

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