Chasing Nuts

PGCon has been a great event so far and is only half over!  Two days of tutorials wrapped up yesterday and I learned a lot about GUCs, Materialized Views that Really Work,  and Database Anti-Patterns. 

Last night the fun really kicked up with Yahoo! hosting a night of drinks, food and a Wii give away.  I learned that Yahoo is not only a PostgreSQL shop but has a two petabyte PosgresSQL database, I think PostgreSQL may be ready for the enterprise

Today the hour long sessions start and there are many great presentations I am looking forward to attending.  Today is also the day I will be speaking  and look forward to talking about the EMOL project, another PostgreSQL success story. 

I took a little time today and upgraded my WordPress install to version 2.3.3. Though some mistakes are just too much fun to make only once I managed to upgrade the site without taking it down this time.

On another note I will be talking about my favorite database PostgreSQL tomorrow at MUG. I plan to talk about the histroy of the project and then get into all the super hot new features. After that I will also shamelessly plug Penguicon.

For those regular listeners of FLOSS weekly this may not be a new flash but Josh Berkus had a great chat with Leo Leport about PostgreSQL recently. I really do enjoy the program and sure with that is really was weekly or I would even take bimonthly. Unfortunitally FLOOS Weekly has had a hard time getting to just the once a month some times.

On another PostgreSQL note PGCon is an annual conference for users and developers of PostgreSQL and I am going to make plans to attend this year.  I am working on a Proposals to talk about some of the work I am helping my friends over at EMOL (Electronic Medical Office Logistics). I think I may title it: Patients, Physicians, Prescriptions, PostgeSQL, and Petabytes.