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PostgreSQL @ FrOSCamp 2010 in Zurich

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 08:54:00 +0200

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

There's a new FOSS conference taking place at the ETH in Zurich, called FrOSCamp. It's a two day conference but unlike many others it's on friday and saturday, september 17th/18th. FUDCon, the Fedora conference, is running parallel to FrOSCamp. Same time, same location.

The PostgreSQL guys from Switzerland and myself submitted a project booth and several talks and workshops. Four talks and workshops as well as the booth got accepted. You can attend:

PostGIS/PostgreSQL for interactive maps (talk, speaker: Stefan Keller)
Replication with PostgreSQL 9.0 (workshop, speaker: Andreas Scherbaum)
PostgreSQL administration and optimization (talk, speaker: Stephan Wagner)
What's new in PostgreSQL 9.0? (talk, speaker: Andreas Scherbaum)

Here is the full schedule.

Come and visit us in Zurich!

FrOSCon 2010 - PostgreSQL devroom - Call for papers

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 00:47:17 +0200

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

Like last year the German PostgreSQL User Group is attending FrOSCon 2010, which is taking place in St. Augustin near Cologne in Germany at august 21st/22nd, 2010. We again managed to have a devroom for one day and are looking for some cool talks - of course somewhat PostgreSQL related.

Please submit your talk by email: froscon@pgug.de until end of july.

A track for lightning talks is planned, in addition we are looking for helpers for the PostgreSQL booth for both days.

About this new MySQL Emulation Layer in PostgreSQL 9.0

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:19:18 +0200

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

This blog post of mine about the new MySQL Emulation Layer in PostgreSQL 9.0 was (more of less obvious) an april joke. Most readers have guessed right.

On the other hand the idea, that this joke is based, is very real: during the last conferences and exhibitions which I have attended, a lot visitors asked us (the PostgreSQL booth staff) about the future of MySQL.

Guess what - we don't know! Please ask Larry ;-)

The next question was usually about porting a MySQL database to PostgreSQL. Many companies selling products with MySQL inside are irritated - and frustrated: "Can i still buy a MySQL license in a year or two?" - "And if yes: how many bucks will Oracle request for this?". "Will Oracle still offer support or will they try to convience everyone to use Oracle database?" At this point many companies start to look for some other database - and PostgreSQL is there, happy to help.

I would like to thank David Fetter at this point, he did the proofreading for my post.

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PostgreSQL 9.0: Includes the new MySQL Emulation Layer

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 00:01:00 +0200

Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum

PostgreSQL 9.0.0, released today, contains the MySQL Emulation Layer.

To enable this feature, set the mysql_compatible option GUC to "on".

postgres=# SELECT * FROM pg_settings WHERE name = 'mysql_compatible';
-[ RECORD 1 ]----------------------------------------------------------------
name         | mysql_compatible
setting       | ON
unit            |
category     | Version AND Platform Compatibility / Other Platforms AND Clients
short_desc | Enable MySQL Emulation Layer
extra_desc |
context       | backend
vartype      | bool
source        | DEFAULT
min_val      |
max_val     |

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