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PostgreSQL @ FOSDEM 2010

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 23:55:00 +0100

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The Open Source people have met again, like every year, in Brussels for the biggest open source event in europe - FOSDEM. The European PostgreSQL User Group was present with a booth and a devroom, plus a lot "community".

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PostgreSQL stand at Chemnitz Linux Days 2010

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:14:00 +0100

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The German PostgreSQL User Group has a stand at Chemnitz Linux Days 2010.

CLT is a two day event and takes place in Chemnitz, Germany, at 13th and 14th march 2010.

Come and visit us!

PostgreSQL stand at Cebit 2010

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 22:53:51 +0100

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The German PostgreSQL User Group has applied for a stand at Cebit 2010. Now we got the confirmation that PostgreSQL will have a stand in hall 2 in the "Project Lounge".

Cebit 2010 takes place in Hannover, Germany, from march 02 to 06, in the exhibition center.

Come and visit us!

PGDay.EU 2009 in Paris (and the 200 meters issue)

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:53:43 +0100

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PGDay.EU 2009 in Paris is over. It was a very thrilling conference with many impressions and interesting talks. But in sequence.

We (my wife, my son plus me) had met Andreas Kretschmer and his family on the Düsseldorf airport and headed together to Paris. In the evening Andreas and i reached the Dalibo office (on the way we could gaze in wonder about the impressive theft protection for the cars) just to find out that everyone is already in the restaurant ;-)

On thursday we helped preparing the conference, David already blogged about his experience with nerds and logistics. Oh, and if a french is telling you "in 200 meters" - never ever trust him. Multiply the number by 5 or 6, that's probably the correct distance. It's like "10 italian minutes" last year in Prato ;-) By the way, the shortest path to the restaurant (near the hotel) is not a short walk. No, it's a round trip using the Metro, followed by a longer walk including several "200 meters" units. That's the experience we gained on the way to the restaurant where everyone was meeting this evening.

Friday started with hecticness: every visitor was to register, name tags was to cut out and assemble (yes, David, i will start even more in advance with the name tags next year ;-) ), find the fitting shirt for every visitor, and the rooms was to be prepared too. The conference itself started with an opening session by Magnus and Jean-Paul, followed by Simon's very promising talk, where he showed a short overview over the last 20 years and gave a view forward on his ideas for the next 20 years. I spent the forenoon on booth duty on the PGEU stand, until we got (about noon) the two long-missing parcels with elephants. I sent two boxes with elephants (using DHL) to Paris two weeks ago. On thursday, the online tracking told us: "delivery failed", which gleu solved by calling DHL and the France postal service several times on thursday afternoon. "Just in time" one might think, but actually i prefer two or three days in advance. The 20 elephants found a new home in less than one hour.

The day ended (more exactly: the evening started) with a party, sponsored by EnterpriseDB, in the Les funables restaurant, near the venue, operated by Ivanne et Sidonie. That's the same company which did the catering for the conference and i have to admit i never attended a conference which such a good food. I should not forget to tell about the cute kids shirts, weared by Andreas' daugther and our son (well, actually, someone have a good picture with the kids+shirt on it for me?) For anyone who asked: the shirts are made in a good copy-shop in my hometown (same shop which prints my training documents). And yes, we try to have some of the shirts for FOSDEM.

On saturday we also had the developer room, which hosted interesting technical talks, in addition to the french and english track. The closing session in the amphie theathre started with the group picture, followed by an auction for the two big blue plush elephants. Sean from EnterpriseDB gave both elephants a new home, thanks a lot for this.

The lightning talks were very exhilarative. I remember (among others) Davids talk about Lolcats and how to do a lightning talk, as well as Gaviks talk - who wasn't there. The talk was - in general amusement - given by Gregory (powerpoint karaoke anyone?). Last but not least there was the Thank You to everyone who helped making the PGDay such a great success, followed by the invitation to the netherlands next year (probably in Amsterdam, probably in october).

I would like to take the chance and thank everyone (in unsorted order) who helped and made this conference possible:

the members of PostgreSQL.fr, especially Damien and Guillaume

the members of PostgreSQL.eu and all associated countries

Ivanne et Sidonie

all sponsors

ParisTech Telecom

all speakers

anyone who helped and whom i missed here

The slides will be available on the PostgreSQL wiki. We would like to ask you giving us feedback (what was good, what could be done better). The feedback site is online.

Making life easy for new (and old) PWN translators

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:40:40 +0200

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I released version 3.0 of the pwn-translation script. Although the version number is already 3.0, this is the first public available version.

What does it do? You feed one of David Fetter's PostgreSQL weekly news mails into the script and it generates a new mail with all known text parts translated into your native language. This should make life very easy for new - and already existing - pwn translators.

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PostgreSQL 8.4: Column Permissions

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 19:00:00 +0200

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Up to PostgreSQL 8.3 it was only possible to grant (and revoke) permissions on the entire table. If column level permissions were needed, a workaround like a view solved (more or less) the problem: create the view with the required (allowed) columns, revoke all permissions from the underlaying table, grant permissions to the view.

This - of course - is uneloquent, error prone and does not scale well. For different users requiring access to different columns, a big number of views is needed.

PostgreSQL 8.4 solves the problem with a shiny new feature: column level permissions.

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Call for Papers for the PostgreSQL-Devroom at FrOSCon 2009

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:27:59 +0200

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The PostgreSQL Project will have a dev-room at FrOSCon on sunday, august 23, 2009. Talks wanted!

The theme should be PostgreSQL-related, please submit the talk(s) by using the FrOSCon Pentabarf:

https://pentabarf.froscon.org/submission/froscon2009/

Procedure:

Create account (if not yet done) and follow the confirmation link in the email

Create a new event

Choose track "PostgreSQL"

All submitters will receive a confirmation timely, if the talk is accepted. Who wants to submit a talk about databases in general - or a talk about another database - may choose the "OpenSQL Camp" track.

FOSDEM 2009 is over

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:09:21 +0100

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FOSDEM 2009 is over and it was a great success!

PostgreSQL shared a developer room together with the *BSD groups and we also had a booth where many visitors passed by and stopped for asking questions or buing some of our merchandising stuff.

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Schedule for developer room and social event - FOSDEM 2009 in Brussels

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:15:56 +0100

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FOSDEM 2009 takes place in Brussels, Belgium next weekend. I hope everyone prepared his talk and booked tickets for the plane ;-)

This post informs you about the schedule for our developer room, the location of the booth and the details about our own social event.

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PostgreSQL and the Perl Workshop 2009 in Frankfurt (Main)

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 14:24:53 +0100

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There will be a workshop "optimize PostgreSQL, combine Perl and PostgreSQL" at the Perl Workshop 2009 on february 25 in Frankfurt/Main in Germany.

More details (in german) are available at: http://www.perl-workshop.de/talks/151/view

The full timetable (also mostly in german) for the workshop is available at: http://www.perl-workshop.de/en/2009/zeitplan.html

Speed up your Serendipity blog running on PostgreSQL

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 21:57:40 +0100

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In the last days i monitored the PostgreSQL logfile on my webserver to find slow queries in the Serendipity blog software. I was hunting another bug in the "events" module so i decided it's woth the additional work and maybe i can tweak some settings to speed up the response time a bit.

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FOSDEM 2009 Call for Papers

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:59:53 +0100

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FOSDEM 2009 will take place february 7-8 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.
Like last year we expect to have a booth and a devroom, the latter one together with the BSD groups.

More infos along with the schedule can be found at:
https://www.bsdwiki.de/FOSDEM_2009

Talks:

Also like last year we will have a series of talks and we are now accepting submissions. If you are a developer, DBA, a vendor or just a user who knows about a cool topic now it is your time to share with the community. If you are unsure if your topic fills an entire talk we also offer lightning talks.

Please submit your talk(s) to fosdem@postgresql.eu, include the topic and the length of the talk. You may choose between:

- 60 minutes talk (~45 minutes talk + 15 minutes discussion)
- 30 minutes talk (~20 minutes talk + 10 minutes discussion)
- lightning talk (5 minutes, cut short)

Booth:

We also need people for booth duty! Many visitors stop by our booth and ask interesting questions. We also sell cool merchandising stuff. If you want to help please let us know: fosdem@postgresql.eu

Hotel:

Just like 2008 we will try to book rooms for everyone in one hotel. If you need a place to sleep please drop us a mail timely at fosdem@postgresql.eu and include the number of individuals, the room type (single, double) and the date of arrival and leave.

A sunday in Tuscany

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:21:51 +0200

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As requested here are the pictures from sunday after PGDay.

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PGDay.org - second day

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:41:54 +0200

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Continuing our two-day event "PGDay" we have seen more interesting talks and devroom sessions on the second day.

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Party in the evening

nospam@example.com (Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum) — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 01:15:42 +0200

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Friday in the evening we had a party which was sponsored by EnterpriseDB. Thank's a lot!

Today in the closing note Gabriele told us that we drank only half of the free beer and we had to continue the party after PGDay was officially closed.

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