Re: New Zealand Postgis DBA job vacancy

Please do not top post!

See my reply below....

On 27/12/12 03:48, Martin Gainty wrote:
> Gavin
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> BTW: Americans dont walk anywhere ..we drive our 2 gallons to the mile
> Hummers everywhere we go
> (so Im hoping that gas is cheap there)
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> I dont know anything about New Zealand but can one live on South
> Island and work on North Island
> and or vice-versa?
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> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 20:17:23 +1300
> From: GavinFlower(at)archidevsys(dot)co(dot)nz
> To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
> Subject: Re: [GENERAL] New Zealand Postgis DBA job vacancy
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> On 25/12/12 09:46, pcreso(at)pcreso(dot)com <mailto:pcreso(at)pcreso(dot)com> wrote:
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> Mat be of interest to someone here...
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> http://careers.eroad.co.nz/vacancies/showVacancy/11
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> Brent Wood
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> I know some people in Auckland who do PostgreSQL, I've emailed them
> about it.
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> Curiously, EROAD's head office is about an hours walk from where I live!
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> Cheers,
> Gavin

In New Zealand we generally use petrol, or diesel, measured in litres -
though there are some cars powered by natural gas. I think the USA is
one of the few places not using the metric system.

There are some people who have their family home in the South Island and
work in the North, generally they stay in the North during the week and
fly back for weekends. Contrary to what you may have been told, you
don't (yet) need a passport to go between the 2 Islands.

I normally work from home, but sometimes go into the university for
meetings and seminars - a trip by bus of about 2 hours. Both places in
Auckland city.

To bring this back on topic: I plan to use PostgreSQL for the backend of
the software I am developing...

Cheers,
Gavin