PG East was an unqualified success, as others have already
blogged
about. This conference might signal a change in the style for dedicated Postgres conferences. Postgres-specific conferences started only
a few years ago, mostly at universities. I was one of the early proponents of having conferences at universities after seeing the success
of FOSDEM. I felt the low admission cost made possible with inexpensive university facilities was
critical in attracting the mostly-volunteer Postgres developers to the conference.

I am ready to rethink that suggestion having attended PG East. The conference cost only USD $125, and many things were definitely easier
having the event in a hotel:

• Informal conversations
• Attracting business users to the show
• Group excursions
• Laptop and bag storage

Continue Reading »

My slides from PG East are now online, and I will be giving a
webcast of that presentation in late April. The presentation covers the new
Postgres 9.0 features of hot standby and streaming replication: how they work, how to configure them, and their current limitations. The
presentation also includes a live demonstration of setting up these features.

I am speaking at New York PostgreSQL Meetup Group on April 20th about Postgres
replication solutions. This will be a much larger group than
previous New York City Postgres meetings; 13 people have already registered.

I have completed the Postgres 9.0 release notes and you can view them
online. There will, of course, be many adjustments to the release
notes before 9.0 final.

I have started preparing the release notes for Postgres 9.0. I went into
great detail last year about how the release notes are created, so I
will not bore you with the mind-numbing details this time. I should be ready with the first draft in a week or two.

Update: I have completed stage #3. 2010-03-16 03:33:20 GMT

Continue Reading »

The upcoming PG East Conference is in my home town, Philadelphia. The
conference promises to be a new generation of Postgres conferences, and I want to highlight some of the changes that attendees can expect.

First, as I mentioned before, the
hotel venue for this conference is much nicer than typical Postgres conferences. Also, it is
located in an area of Philadelphia that is packed with great restaurants and shops.

Continue Reading »

Many people are waiting for Postgres 9.0, so here is a status report about the release. Two weeks ago we completed the last 9.0
CommitFest and released
9.0 Alpha 4. We are now working on a 9.0
open items list. There are relatively few open items compared to
previous major releases because there are now more developers focused on closing open items.

Once we deal with all the items on that list, and any new items that appear, we can release the first 9.0 beta. Technically, we could
release a beta before dealing with all open items as long as we are sure that none of the existing open items will require cluster
reinitialization (initdb).

View Comments