Re: Status: OSCON organization

When is OSCON?  If you can propose the replication one, I *might* be able
to get Chris down to do the actual talk, since he has had experience on
both sides ... depends on when it is ...


On Thu, 22 Jan 2004, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

> 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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