| Paul Jungwirth on 17 Jan 2012 17:23:57 -0800 |
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| Re: [PLUG] Weigh in: what PostgreSQL talk would you like to hear? |
I'd be interested in tuning Postgres, or in a talk about HA Postgres along the lines Kyle mentioned. Paul On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 5:01 PM, Kyle R. Burton <kyle.burton@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't speak up much, but there are topics here that are of interest > to me. ÂTo be selfish, I'd love to hear about PostgreSQL in HA and > High Performance configurations. ÂI know about streaming replication > (and am using it) but I'm not comfortable with my knowledge of > automated fail-over, partitioning strategies, backups, and the various > postgres contrib services (pgpool, pgbouncer, etc) and how to apply > them. > > I'd love to hear more about PG in those kinds of configuration. > > > Kyle > > On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Russ Thompson <vigornj@gmail.com> wrote: >> Paul, >> >> This is a great idea and thanks for getting it going. ÂI haven't used >> Postgres in probably 9-10 years, even then, I wasn't very hands on mostly >> experimentation. ÂIn the meantime, I've picked up a great deal of mySQL >> knowledge and since Oracle'sÂacquisitionÂhave been considering Postgres >> again. >> >> I'd like to really hear about some of the key differences between mySQL and >> Postgres, in regards to management, performance etc. ÂAlong with difficulty >> of migrating would be very helpful. >> >> Regards, >> Russ Thompson >> >> >> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:29 PM, Rich Freeman <r-plug@thefreemanclan.net> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Paul L. Snyder <plsnyder@drexel.edu> >>> wrote: >>> > Âhttp://momjian.us/main/presentations/project.html >>> > Please weigh in with which presentation (or presentations) you would >>> > most >>> > like to see, along with which chapter you'd like to see it at. ÂNote >>> > that >>> > Bruce has given presentations to PLUG in the past, so we want to avoid >>> > repeats at the same chapter. >>> >>> Not sure if this one has been done, but the Get-To-Know talk seems >>> interesting in the project page. >>> >>> I understand databases, and generally use MySQL on linux, mostly >>> because that is what all the upstream projects tend to target. ÂI've >>> heard lots of argument that Postgres is better, but I'd like to know >>> whether it is worth switching, and what to expect. >>> >>> Rich >>> >>> ___________________________________________________________________________ >>> Philadelphia Linux Users Group     -- >>> Âhttp://www.phillylinux.org >>> Announcements - >>> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >>> General Discussion Â-- >>> http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> >> >> >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group     --    Âhttp://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion Â--  http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >> > > > > -- > Twitter: @kyleburton > Blog: http://asymmetrical-view.com/ > Fun: http://snapclean.me/ > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group     --    Âhttp://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion Â--  http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- _________________________________ Pulchritudo splendor veritatis. ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug