Re: Postgres and PostGIS training

Cameron,

On 2013-04-10 14:47, Cameron Shorter wrote:
> Philip,
> LISAsoft has teamed up with EnterpriseDB to provide commercial
> support and services for Postgres in Australia and New Zealand.
>
> In particular, we have upcoming training in "Postgres Administration"
> and also comprehensive course on the spatial functionality provided by
> PostGIS.
> Details here: http://lisasoft.com/training-schedule
>
> If there is a demand for a PL/pgSQL introduction course, we'd be
> happy to add that to our list of courses. Are you aware of sufficient
> demand fill a classroom?

I was only speaking for me before the list was wound up . .

Thanks,

Phil.

> On 10/04/2013 7:28 AM, Philip Rhoades wrote:
>> People,
>>
>> Two things come to mind:
>>
>> - Is anyone interested in running an intro course on PL/pgSQL ? - I
>> have never really had DBs myself that needed this sort of performance
>> improvement but it would be a good thing to do.
>>
>> - I soon will need to set up large and growing DBs of large chunks of
>> written text and be able to parse that for semantic meaning - it looks
>> like Sphynx and Xapian would be more suited to this sort of stuff but
>> it would be nice if I could stick to PG - any comments?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Phil.
>>
>>
>> On 2013-04-09 23:23, Stuart Cooper wrote:
>>> The list is moribund. It had some good days a few years ago with the
>>> backing of Fujitsu FAST and personalities like Charles Duffy and
>>> Gavin Sherry
>>> (I imagine Charles Duffy is the owner you mention? I believe he's in
>>> India these days).
>>>
>>> I believe the list can be safely closed.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Stuart.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 4:06 AM, Alvaro Herrera
>>> <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Howdy Sydpuggers,
>>>>
>>>> The previous list owner's email for this list no longer works; in
>>>> fact,
>>>> the person in charge is not even in Sydney at all. I wonder if
>>>> there's
>>>> still any interest in the SydPUG, and whether there's anybody who
>>>> would
>>>> like to be in charge of this list.
>>>>
>>>> If there's no interest, we will close the list to further activity,
>>>> until a new owner appears.
>>>>
>>>> Please let us know.
>>>>
>>>> -- Alvaro Herrera
>>>>
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