Postgres and Open Source Experts

The PostgreSQL community has a lot of conferences in the United States:

• PgUS United States PostgreSQL Conference 
• Citus Data PgConfSV
• PgUS SCALE PgDay (which as of 2016 is really a conference within a conference)
• PostgresOpen
• EDB PostgresVision

And that doesn't come even close to the number of various conferences in Europe.

As Bruce Momjian pointed out in his excellent blog this is a good thing. It is true that in …

I attended the fantastically presented PgConf US 2016 last week. An amazing conference, my training was well attended, my talk was at capacity, the 20th Anniversary Party was phenomenal and the conference raised money for an excellent cause. There were over 435 attendees, giving our brothers and sisters at PgConf EU something to work for during their conference in November.

While attending the hallway track, I was talking to …

Three weeks ago I was in Pasadena for SCALE 14. I had over 100 people in my room as I blistered the behind of PostgreSQL and how it handles backups. If you are interested in seeing my considered opinion I will also be training on the same topic at PgConf.US. I am also speaking on PostgreSQL Replication and finally, I was told that I am running the Lightning …

A lot of people probably don't know this but PostgreSQL does plan. It is true that we take all contributions and they are reviewed based on their merit but it is also true that the community tries very hard to have a road map of some sort. Those road maps are created by the more prolific contributors in the community.

In the past there was a yearly Developer Meeting. That …

It is really not fair to call it a mini-conf. The Scale 14x, PostgreSQL Day attendance was larger than every conference except PgConf.US (EDIT: in the United States/Canada). It is a great opportunity to integrate with a wider community that is diverse, technologically capable and at the front lines of production installations.

I spoke on Backups: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. I had over 100 attendees in …

I am sitting in a glorious (although not the conference) hotel, writing this article. It is 13:58, at least it is where I am from, the great Pacific Northwest. I must admit, I miss the trees although I hear there are lots of them if you leave the city. What is there to say about this great city that the European community picked for their latest conference?

First and probably …

I spoke at the Whatcom PUG meeting last night on PostgreSQL 9.5. This is my fourth time giving this talk. The previous locations were DCPUG, PhillyPUG, and NYCPUG last month. The talk was well received and this was Whatcom PUG's best turn out yet! We even had an Open Street Map developer visit from Vancouver B.C.

The presentation does discuss some of the more popular features of 9.5, but as …

This tip works very well for me because of my physical location (Bellingham, WA) but it would also work reasonably well for anyone flying from Denver->West Coast including places such as Houston. It does take a little bit of patience though.

A normal trip for myself would mean driving down to SEA which is 90 minutes to 2 hours. This year, I decided on whim to see what it …

In the beginning

There was Unix, Linux and Windows. They all run on hardware and that hardware all has bugs. What is the best way to work around hardware bugs? Backups.

You haven't had bad hardware, only bad developers? That's o.k., we have a solution to them too. It is called backups.

You haven't had bad hardware or bad developers, just bosses who still demand to have direct access to …

A new user of PostgreSQL recently discovered that PostgreSQL allows any PostgreSQL user to create objects and data by default.[1] I know you are saying, "What... PostgreSQL has some of the most advanced and flexible security in the industry!" and you are absolutely correct, we do. However, once you can connect to PostgreSQL, you have some interesting default capabilities. Consider the following example:

postgres@sqitch:/# psql -U postgres
psql (9.2.11)
Type …