Postgres and Open Source Experts

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 …

From the hackers:

Replicator 8.3-1.8.1 It is recommended to update your 8.3-1.8.0 installation. No changes required for replication databases or configuration files. Release notes: - Fixed a bug that lead to occasional crashes of the master's backend when performing updates to a table with dropped columns. - Fixed a couple of minor mcp_stat problems.

• Download it here.
• Project site

Reminder: We are in the midst of the PostgreSQL Conference West call for papers. The call for papers ends 08/20/09. If you wish to be considered to present you must submit a talk.