Archive for the ‘PostgreSQL’ Category

iSCSI SAN Suggestions

Friday, March 6th, 2009

We are facing an immediate need to refresh and expand some of our iSCSI storage we are running our PostgreSQL instance on. I am open to just about anything but I wondered if this group would have any suggestions. One item that is a bit unique to our situation is I am not in the need of staggering performance as I am in the need for very cost effective large mounts of storage. For more details on what I am doing: http://www.slideshare.net/AaronThul/this-is-your-postgresql-on-drugs

At the moment I am looking at Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage Systems or a Dell Equallogic. Would anyone like to suggest other options? Has anyone had any problems with those vendors? Anyone like to share a glowing review or success story?

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PGCon is going great!

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

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. 

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I did it right this time

Monday, February 11th, 2008

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.

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Josh Berkus on PostgreSQL

Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007

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.

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