Re: Status: OSCON organization

Sounds interesting.. you might also want to look at the gforge project
which uses a lot of those types of features. I was thinking of doing
something similar (though probably a tutorial) on using views and
pllangs to save your self from excessive recoding of client
applications. I planned to base it on some real life examples but not
any one specific apps.

Incidentally, I don't think it hurts to have multiple people doing
submissions on similar topics, since theres no guarantee that any
particular talk/tutorial will actually get picked.

Robert Treat

On Fri, 2004-01-23 at 06:04, Chris Travers wrote:
> 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(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>
> To: <pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
> Cc: <ajs(at)crankycanuck(dot)ca>; <janwieck(at)yahoo(dot)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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> > --Roger Brinner
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