Re: Successful booth at Chemnitz (Germany)

Susanne Ebrecht <miracee(at)miracee(dot)de> schrieb:

> Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum wrote:
> >We had a lot of visitors (from companies and private visitors) and many
> >good questions. In contrast to Brussels every third question was about
> >the difference to Mysql, after this, the difference to Oracle. Other
> >
> uiii, difference to oracle is interresting. That shows, that oracle user
> are interrested in postgresql.

I can confirm this, some people talks about migration from O?? to PG,
with success ;-)
For instance, a person from the german foreign office: he reported us,
that his office is using PG on _all_ foreign departments. Perhaps, we
have a new story for http://www.postgresql.org/about/casestudies/ ;-)
(I hope he get the license to report us official...)

> >topics are replication (master/master, master/slave), having PG running
> >on Windows, what new features the next version will bring and many
> >questions for documents about optimization and parameter tuning. The
> >German Usergroup will create some flyers for the most asked topics,
> >maybe we can create them together and just translate them for all
> >countries.
> >
> That is normal. No questions to gis, gist, partitioning and such a stuff?

Yes, there are also some questions about partitioning and so on.
Many, many questions about replication...

> I'll hope you have shown my article about optimization :)

Hehe, yes: performance tuning was a big thema, but not a real problem:
nobody was disappointed about performance, only questions about proper
configuration. Not a realy problem, but i think, this point we should
more describe. (GUC-variables for instance)

(Someone ask me, if it is possible to create a trigger that fires only
on changes on a desired column. He had an application with many updates,
but only 5% change this column and because all updates fires the trigger
he has some performance trouble). My answer was: use an own function for
this case of updates instead a trigger.)

> >But beside this questions many visitors told us that they are already
> >using PostgreSQL and that they are happy using it.
> >
> That is great.

Yes!

> >A word about the merchandising: we only had white shirts, but was asked
> >some more times about the black ones and the shirts with the big
> >elephant on it. And of course, the 5 blue plush elephants we had are
> >gone after a very short time.

... and some people was disappointed later =:-(

So, enough for today. I hope, you can understand my poor english...
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