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David Fetter: PostgreSQL Conference Japan...and onward
Finally, the people doing all kinds of clustering in PostgreSQL have met and sketched out the issues.
Expect great things to come from this...
And that was before the official conference even got started.
Thanks to all the
Mark Wong: November 2009 Meeting Recap and December Reminder
The intro question of the night was "what is your favorite cupcake flavor?" The majority of answers were chocolate with blue frosting and sprinkles, which Dan Colish brought that night. Dan tried to distract us by talking about materialized views
PostgreSQL Weekly News: PostgreSQL Weekly News November 22nd 2009
A report from the Brazilian PostgreSQL conference in Portuguese is at:
http://pgcon.postgresql.org.br/2009/asl/pgcconbr-2009_prest_contas.pdf
Josh Berkus: The Three Database Clustering Users
The PostgreSQL community and the database industry have a bewildering profusion of clustering product and projects, utilizing a plethora of technologies and optimized for a diversity of different requirements. Clusters are single-master
Selena Deckelmann: Cluster Developer Meeting recap
UPDATE: See bottom of post.
We held a PostgreSQL cluster developer meeting on Thursday, November 19, 2009 in Tokyo. About 25 people were in attendance, and seven projects presented status updates. Projects represented included
Josh Berkus: Collaborating on Clustering
For the last several years, PostgreSQL has suffered from having numerous, incomplete, unpolished, and poorly-publicized clustering and replication tools. It's time to fix that.
Andrew Dunstan: Oh, the irony
H/T Crad for this one
Joshua D. Drake: PDXDjango roundup: I finally got my Martini
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
US PostgreSQL Association: PgUS Community Member Update 11/09:
JD wrote:
So what is going on and what has happened over the last year?
First and foremost, I should mention that PgUS is about to have an election for 3 board seats. The current nominees are:
Michael Brewer
Joshua
Joshua D. Drake: Speaking at PDXDjango Tonight on PostgreSQL Performance
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.