The other night I was having dinner with a bunch of folks, and I think it was Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django dude and Postgres user) who noted that the Postgres community's governance model was this crazy mix of distributed peer-to-peer style chaos, that on it's surface wouldn't seem functional, but somehow seems to work really well for our project (my paraphrazation). It's hard to argue. We don't have...

I couldnt get time to write anything on the blog for like a couple of months because of being very much occupied with work. I did some testing lately on EDB replicator as I had a requirement where I wanted to replicate some data out of Oracle in to a PostgreSQL database server while they were in the process of porting the application code from Oracle to PostgreSQL. Here is my experience with using...

It has been a little quiet on the PgUS front of late but that doesn't mean work isn't happening. We have a new feature on the website that allows anyone to view resolutions that have been brought before the board. You can view those that have passed, failed or all at once. We have also received back what we hope is the last revision of the bylaws from our attorney. Lastly we have also determined ou...

Here's my slide deck from People for Geeks. Will be uploading to slideshare soon! The talk is about leading user groups and steps for managing volunteers, and how to have fun!...

Today Brian Aker and Monty Widenius announced a fork of MySQL....