Call for papers.

December 14th, 2009, the PostgreSQL Conference U.S. team is pleased to announce the East 2010 venue and call for papers. This year the premiere East Coast PostgreSQL Conference will be returning to history Drexel University in Philadelphia. The event this year is being held at Drexel University in Philadelphia from March 26th through 28th. Following previously successful United States PostgreSQL conferences, we will be hosting a series …

Shout out to Mark Long and Lacey Powers for showing up to support a Pg dude in a foreign land. Preceding my talk on PostgreSQL Performance, Adam Lowry gave and interesting intro to a database connection pooling module he wrote for Django. Essentially they bolted SQLAlchemy's pooler into Django. He then gave some metrics, showing that through the connection pooler they dropped overall request time in half. It was a …

I have the unexpected pleasure of speaking at PDXDjango tonight on PostgreSQL performance. Their meetings are 90 minutes with about 60 minutes (in theory) for the main speaker. The talk I am giving is a quick introduction to PostgreSQL Performance. The description I gave to the group was:

• I am a Django developer not a DBA.
• I know nothing about PostgreSQL performance.
• What 10 things (it will be more) can …

I am back home and done recovering from Pg West 2009. I can now provide some closing thoughts. I think the conference as a whole went very well. This is the first time we did a zero swag conference and the majority of people didn't seem to mind. SWAG is probably the single largest contributor to time spent organizing a conference (in a single block). By not having swag has …

What an amazing Friday. Normally on Fridays, PgWest and East are sparsely populated. Usually running in the mid 50s. Today was a great day with 87 people attending and many more slated to attend on Saturday. Even some unexpected contributors showed up such as Robert Bernier. If you are reasonably close, and if you are thinking about coming; now is the time to make the commitment. If you are here …

Well I made it to Seattle. It was a bit of disaster to get here with my Wife flatly stating she was suing a well known Mexican restaurant for hot beans and bad signing from a well known pop star. I have a meeting today with the college to verify facilities. I then pick up the programs. Of course the "suites" at Spring Hill Suites are not really suites but …

I was very happy about the progress of PostgreSQL Conference West this year. We secured facilities earlier than we ever had before thanks to heroic efforts by Lisa Sandoval of Seattle Central Community College. Communication about the conference has been flowing well. We have a great talk line up. Registrations are on par with last year, even with the economic downturn. And then I got hit with a heavy …

If there is one thing the Open Source community knows how to do, it is party. Well, and drink but those do not necessarily go together at all times. Luckily, the Open Source community is also good at re-inventing the wheel, improvisation and general hackery. With that in mind, it is time to announce the after party info for PostgreSQL Conference West. I am extremely enthusiastic with the idea that …

As mentioned over at the PgUS website, the PostgreSQL Conference West 2009 registration is now open.. I will be giving a talk on Replicator 1.8.1 (which was just updated to 8.3.8). I will also be giving a talk on PITRTools.

In order to make our talk slots available to all who would like to give a presentation at PostgreSQL Conference West 09, we have extended our talk deadline until September 5th. If you have already submitted a talk, you will be notified of your acceptance (or not) by September 1st. For those that submit talks after August 25th, you will be notified by September 7th. As always you can find …