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Last Friday was the first PGDay Denver, a regional one day Postgres conference, put on by Kevin Kempter and the folks who run the Denver Postgres User Group. We had between 50 and 75 people, which is pretty good turnout for a first time event. I gave two talks, my "Essential PostgreSQL.conf" talk (slides here) and my "Advanced WAL File Management with OmniPITR" talk (slides here). It was my first time in Denver (outside of the airport at least), and I have to say that the city is very well laid out for conference goers. The one tricky part was getting from the airport to downtown, but once you are downtown, their are plenty of good places to eat/drink, plenty of hotels, and the conference center itself is massive. After a couple nights on the town, I was honestly left surprised that I hadn't been to a conference here before (maybe OSCon should swing through some year?) and hoping I'll get the chance to go back. In any case, thanks to the PGDay Denver folks for putting together a nice event, and hopefully we'll see others follow their lead with more PGDay's in their part of the country.

A reminder that tomorrow, Wednesday (the 11th) is the BWPUG meeting for
May. This month Greg Smith will be stopping by to give a preview of
his upcoming PGCon Tutorial, "Postgres Performance PItfalls".
PostgreSQL is a database system that can deliver excellent performance
for a wide variety of applications. But it's easy to run into an issue
that keeps you from seeing its full potential. There are a few basic
PostgreSQL configuration and use misunderstandings that cause most of
the early performance issues administrators and developers encounter.

When: May 11th, ~6:30PM.
Where: 7070 Samuel Morse Dr, Columbia, MD, 21042.
Host: OmniTI

As always we will have time for networking and we can do some more
open Q & A, and we'll likely hit one of the local restaurants after
the meet.

BWPUG Meetup Page
BWPUG Mailing List

A reminder that today, Wednesday (the 13th) is the BWPUG meeting for
April. This month we're going to forgo a formal speaker and in favor of an "Open Mic Night". Got questions about Postgres? Need help on a problem? Recently done something awesome? Did you learn anything from PGEast? Come swap stories with fellow Meetup members and/or get help if you need it.


When: April 13th, ~6:30PM.
Where: 7070 Samuel Morse Dr, Columbia, MD, 21042.
Host: OmniTI

As always we will have time for networking and we can do some more
open Q & A, and we'll likely hit one of the local restaurants after
the meet.

Don't forget to check out our Meetup page, please feel free to sign up and/or RSVP.

I think I'm just about dug out from last weeks NYC trip for PGEast. I have to say I had a good time at the conference, although I was kept busy enough not to be able to get to see nearly as many presentations as I would have liked. One thing I did walk away with was a renewed appreciation for the projects we get to work on at OmniTI. I angled most of my talks toward PostgreSQL 9.0, going in thinking that a majority of people would have probably made the move already. Apparently that isn't the case, which in retrospect seems obvious; a majority of our customers still run some 8.x version of Postgres, as we work to vet applications and find the right windows to make their upgrades happen. Still, we are fortunate to have some clients who are very aggressive when it comes to server versioning, and we're lucky enough to get to run a healthy amount of Postgres 9, in some cases with fairly complex distributed server arrangements.

In any case, as per the title of this post, slides for my talks are now up on slide share, feel free to peruse, and if you have any questions please let me know.

Howdy folks,

A reminder that this Wednesday (the 10th) is the BWPUG meeting for November.
This month's topic will be "Achieving PCI compliance with Postgres". PCI-DSS standard
was developed by credit card companies to help protect cardholders from identity theft
and enhance cardholder security. While the standard has a history going back almost
10 years, there are still many questions and challenges faced for people trying
to stay compliant, especially within the open source arena.

When: November 10th, ~6:30PM.
Where: 7070 Samuel Morse Dr, Columbia, MD, 21042.
Host: OmniTI

As always we will have time for networking and we can do some more
open Q & A, and we'll likely hit one of the local restaurants after
the meet.

A reminder that tommorrow night, BWPUG will be gathering for its September meeting. This months we're rounding up the gang to discuss "PostgreSQL Security via SE-Postgres", including the current TODO's, and what to focus on now that 9.0 is just around the corner and 9.1 development will be starting in earnest. We expect to have a good crowd on hand, including some potential out-of-towners, so we hope to see you there.

When: Septmber 8th, ~6:30PM.
Where: 7070 Samuel Morse Dr, Columbia, MD, 21042.
Host: OmniTI

As always we have time for networking and likely hit one of the local
restaurants after the meeting, hope to see you there.

I'm very happy to announce that the Postgres project has been selected to participate in this years Google Summer of Code program. Over the next couple weeks we'll be looking to solidify our mentor base; if you work on Postgres and would be willing to mentor a student, please send me a note so we can get you signed up. If you are a student and you're interested in working on Postgres, now is the time to get your proposal together. Student applications will open up on March 29th, so we'd like to have our mentors in place for review, and hopefully had students discussing with the Postgres devs their proposals as much as needed. If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me, or track me down on irc.

Handy links for Postgres GSoC:

• Our ideas page for GSoC


• Our loose attempt at organization


• Our Postgres page on the GSoC site


• Users Guide to GSoC

Thanks everyone, I'm looking forward to another interesting year with GSoC, and hoping you'll join in.


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