Re: Status: OSCON organization - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

Hi all;

I am considering doing a talk (not a tutorial) on how the advanced features
of PostgreSQL allow for extremely powerful business databases.  An abstract
follows:
Many application developers working with relational database systems are
used to using the database as a simple data store. However PostgreSQL allows
for far more sophisticated "active," or self-managing databases to be
developed. Many business applications can benefit from using an active
database. This paper explored how views, rules, triggers, and functions can
be used in order to create an active database. The Open Reservation
Management System database (http://sourceforge.net/projects/openres, not yet
stable) will be used as an example, as will the HERMES CRM database system
(http://hermesweb.sourceforge.net).

Best Wishes,
Chris Travers
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew Sullivan" <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>
To: <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Cc: <ajs@crankycanuck.ca>; <janwieck@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 1:43 AM
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Status: OSCON organization


> On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 09:59:44AM -0800, elein wrote:
> > I think it is important for you or Jan to do
> > a replication tutorial.
>
> I'm not sure that Jan can do a tutorial on the actual replication
> system -- he's never had to administer it (fortunately for him), just
> fix some bugs in it (unfortunately for him).  I think if he does a
> talk on this, it'll have to be on his currently-in-progress system
> instead.  (I do think, however, that people at OSCON are way more
> likely to want to talk to Jan than to talk to me.  I'm a miserably
> bad programmer, so I'm not really in a position to talk about what
> we're doing next except in the broadest terms.)
>
> > A talk (as opposed to a tutorial) on
> > admin stuff would also be very pertinent
> > since the feedback I am collecting
> > indicates that people do not think
> > that PostgreSQL is as easy to administer
> > as it is.
>
> Yes; I was actually wondering what to talk about for 45 minutes.  The
> wonder about Postgres is that it mostly runs itself when everything
> is going along nicely.
>
> > Can you let me know when you know for
> > sure what tutorial and talks you are
> > going to propose?
>
> I can propse both of these, then, if you like, assuming someone
> better isn't volunteering.  (There are many better, I'm sure, and
> I'll happily step out of the way for others.)
>
> A
>
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