Posted Thursday Oct 28th, 2010 01:19pm
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So it appears my blog yesterday stirred a couple of coals. I love it. In response to Josh Berkus's comment here, I offered up a poll. So here it is: Replication Poll. You don't have to log in to take it but of course if you do, it helps track validity of results. Bring it on folks.
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Posted Wednesday Oct 27th, 2010 04:41pm
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I was catching up on the max_wal_senders must die thread and I came across this very interesting post by fellow Josh Berkus.
In the post, Josh Berkus makes the assertion, "50% of PGX's active clients have either already converted to 9.0 replication or have scheduled a conversion with us".
I have no doubts of Josh's statement but it brings up an interesting point when arguing about features in PostgreSQL. Josh's response was in regards to a point made by Tom Lane that only a minority of our users are going to want replication. At this point people are going, "What? Of course we want replication!!!!" but you know what? You don't.
Yes, Command Prompt customers want replication. Yes, PostgreSQL Experts, EntepriseDB and OmniTI customers want replication. However, customers are *not* users. At least not in the community sense and the users in the community, the far majority of them do not need or want replication. A daily backup is more than enough for them.
I think we are going to see an increase in the disparity between customers and users as time goes on. I for example, do not see a real benefit to the 9.0 replication features. That is not to disparage the very hard work that the community members put in, just that we have already defined solutions to solve that problem, years ago. Solutions that work very well. I am more excited about things like SQL/med or PL/psm support.
Want to argue with Josh Berkus or I about this? Catch us at PostgreSQL Conference West next week.
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Posted Wednesday Oct 27th, 2010 01:47pm
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There are so many things to consider when working through the week. You never send a Press Release never on Monday or Friday. Scheduling meetings is always a bad idea on Monday. Thursdays always seem to be busy, probably because people want to be lazy on Friday. Monday you never know what is going to happen, you might get slammed or you might be waiting for the next email to come in hoping it is important.
I am now completely off the above topic because I just got this in my email:
Canonical shook the Linux world yesterday when it announced that the next version of Ubuntu -- "Natty Narwhal," or version 11.04 -- will no longer use the GNOME interface by default. Instead, Natty will feature Unity, the multitouch and 3D-enabled interface that made its debut earlier this month in the distribution's netbook edition of Maverick Meerkat, or Ubuntu 10.10.
I just started using Unity on my notebook. It is quite nice and quite a bit less clunky than default Gnome but... WOW!
Oh and Register for PostgreSQL Conference West
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Posted Tuesday Oct 26th, 2010 10:43am
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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 days, 53 speakers and 61 sessions. To top that off, PgEast 2011, is setting up to be 4 full days with an expectation of at least 30% more content and as much as 50% more attendees.
Have you registered for West yet?
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Posted Monday Oct 25th, 2010 12:48pm
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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 a short while, I am beginning to think about East. What can we do for East to make it even larger? Another 50% attendance would be a huge win. I do know that East will be a 4 day conference, with full day trainings the first day. I am considering pushing the tutorials to the last day, so the two days in the middle would be sessions. Anyway, now is the time to register for West if you haven't yet.
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Posted Thursday Oct 21st, 2010 02:02pm
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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 perfect setting for a total DBA Geek Party!
We have also added a full day training on the 5th. The training, is a repeat of the very successful Mastering PostgreSQL Administration held at PostgreSQL Conference East 2010. It being taught by PostgreSQL.org Core team member, Bruce Momjian. You can register for the class at Platinum Sponsor EnterpriseDB's website.
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Posted Wednesday Oct 20th, 2010 01:35pm
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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 for the paradigm in which it is used.
I also know that programmers who don't really know anything about databases have been trying to "fix" them for decades only to eventually come back to earth and realize our way is the best way (thus why all your decent ORMs now support natural keys). Redis has a lot of momentum. I look forward to seeing what they have to offer.
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Posted Friday Oct 15th, 2010 01:35pm
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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 6.x days. That company is SourceForge, the Big Papa of Open Source and Free Software project hosting.
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Posted Thursday Oct 14th, 2010 11:09am
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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!
And of course, thank you to our sponsors:
Posted Tuesday Oct 12th, 2010 04:23pm
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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 have always used Google Calendar to do our scheduling. We have also always gotten grief for it. So this year I tried to put a pretty face on top of Google Calendar.
The change lead to the removal of all of my vital organs except my heart. The community informed me that I was able to keep my heart because they wanted me to feel the sorrow and anguish they felt when they saw the changes I made.
Anyway, thanks to Magnus and a full day of hacking and bashing by myself, we now have a much better front end to the schedule. Now, if you all wouldn't be too shy to register that would be great. Thanks!
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Posted Monday Oct 11th, 2010 02:57pm
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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 first is: PostgreSQL and Node.JS. Granted I am biased because it is one of my team members speaking but this is a truly interesting thing that she is working on. The ability to write postgresql driven Javascript applications using node.js is 100% buzzword compliant and useful.
Of course this also coincides with the recent Alpha release of the driver which can be forked or pulled from its github home..
If you are up for it, you could also talk to Aurynn in person about the project either on irc in #postgresql or at PostgreSQL Conference West 2010.
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Posted Friday Oct 1st, 2010 09:34am
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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 and System Administrators.
The week after I will be headed to Boston to attend OpenSQL Camp 2010 where I will be giving the same talk. Hope to see some community there!
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