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MongoDB at PgEast.... say what?

I was surprised at first too but I have been talking to quite a few community members for MongoDB and due to the positive responses, PostgreSQL Conference East is going to be host to the excellent MongoDB community.

JD, Why would you do this? Why do we care? We are relational, they -- well I don't know what they are.

One of the goals of The PostgreSQL Conference …

PostgreSQL vs MySQL @ Oracle NYC Head Quarters NYC (my brain just broke)

In my quest to insure an incredible turnout for PostgreSQL Conference, I contacted the MySQL meetup group in NYC. Of course my reasons were simple, I want MySQL people to show up and see the value of PostgreSQL. However, I learned a couple of new things.

PgEast: 2011, Second call for papers!

January 18th, 2011: Celebrating 15 years of PostgreSQL, early.

That's right folks, it is time for second call. Content is being submitted steadily. At PgWest last year, we received well over our capacity of content and we would like to keep that trend going.

The PostgreSQL Conference for Developers,End Users and Decision Makers, is being held at the Hotel Pennsylvania,in New York City from March 22nd through 25th 2011. Please …

PgEast 2011: NYC Call for papers

December 16th, 2010: Celebrating 15 years of PostgreSQL, early.

Following on the smashing success of PostgreSQL Conference West, PostgreSQL Conference West, The PostgreSQL Conference for Developers, End Users and Decision Makers, is being held at the Hotel Pennsylvania, in New York City from March 22nd through 25th 2011. Please join us in continuing to make this the largest PostgreSQL Conference series!

R.I.P. PostgreSQL (Mammoth) Replicator

In 2004, PostgreSQL Core Team member Josh Berkus wrote[1]:

"Slony-I is undoubtedly our most popular replication tool. It supports Master-Slave High Availability Replication. However, there are a number of other solutions, such as dbMirror, eRServer, pgPool, C-JDBC, and the proprietary Mammoth Replicator, all of which are in wide use because they solve different replication problems than Slony-I does. Replication is not a single solution for a single problem; it is …

Looking for an Intermediate Sysadmin + Junior DBA

Command Prompt, Inc. is looking for an intermediate systems administrator and junior PostgreSQL administrator.

Command Prompt has provided PostgreSQL support, development, and hosting since 1997. We are looking for another person to join our stellar group of PostgreSQL systems experts.

We seek someone who has a deep knowledge of at least one UNIX-like system, and who knows how to manage heterogeneous systems well. You can demonstrate strong skills in basic …

Replication Poll results

Back before PostgreSQL Conference West, there was a poll. That poll was replication. Here are the results. There were 367 respondents. Have fun with it!

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Qresponses
1In what waydo you use PostgreSQL?
Development Only72
As a hobby (or personaldevelopment)106
Professionally325
2What versionof PostgreSQL are you running?
8.3117

MySQL: The Elephant in the room (Facebook?), oh and me.

Rob Wultsch gave an interesting talk at PostgreSQL Conference West, about MySQL and why it doesn't suck. Yes, this was a talk we accepted at a PostgreSQL Conference. It was a good talk but some of the room was a little testy afterward.

Outside of Rob's points which I found valid (you can see it in the video) the one thing that bugged me is the aggressiveness of Facebook. It …

You still don't need no stinking replication! (Replication Poll)

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.

Users versus Customers - YOU DON'T NEED NO STINKING REPLICATION

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 …