Re: PDXPUG: January meeting in < 2 weeks

I discovered yesterday, while poking around the AWS website, that they've
fixed a couple of the bugs I mentioned: lack of logging of vacuum jobs,
and the reserved superusers connections issue.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/ann.jspa?annID=3389

The fix for reserved superusers is available on RDS Pg v 9.4.5; the fix
for the vac log messages is on 9.4.5 and 9.3.10.

I'm also happy about these because they're suggestions that I made :)

(Now to get to work on the storing snapshots on s3 issue...)

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 7:49 AM, Veronika Megler <vmegler(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> The quote I referred to yesterday comes from Werner Vogels, Amazon CTO:
> "Everything fails, all the time."
>
> ... then take that as a design principle ... somewhat diametrically
> opposed to the mind-frame many of us database folk come from. :-)
>
> On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Gabrielle R <gorthx(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>
>>
>> NOTE: This month's meeting is one week earlier than our usual schedule,
>> so we don't conflict with SCALE (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/14x
>> )
>>
>> When: 6-8pm Thursday January 14, 2016
>> Where: Iovation
>> Who: Gabrielle Roth
>> What: RDS Postgres
>>
>> Amazon integrated Postgres into their general Relational Database
>> Services (RDS) offerings July 1, 2014. RDS offers automatic failover,
>> scalability, and easy configuration, plus Amazon handles all the patching
>> and most of the upgrades for you! Their SDK supports many languages and
>> includes a robust CLI, if you want to automate management of your
>> deployments. They also support several popular Postgres extensions.
>>
>> Of course, since it's a managed service, you can't do everything you
>> might expect or want to. We'll discuss the fun and quirky features I've
>> discovered in a year and a half of working with production RDS
>> deployments. Come find out what it's like to use RDS Postgres day-to-day.
>>
>> (This is an updated version of my talk from last year.
>> https://pdxpug.wordpress.com/2015/01/08/pdxpug-january-meeting-next-week-2/
>> )
>>
>> Gabrielle has been using Postgres since sometime in the version 7s and
>> thinks that the best part of using Open Source software is the culture of
>> sharing knowledge. She co-leads PDXPUG, the Portland PostgreSQL Users'
>> Group. Gabrielle's current areas of interest are monitoring, benchmarking,
>> and writing freaky SQL.
>>
>> --
>> If you have a job posting or event you would like me to announce at the
>> meeting, please send it along. The deadline for inclusion is 5pm the day
>> before the meeting.
>> --
>>
>> Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp
>> Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It's right on the Green & Yellow Max
>> lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage;
>> outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office,
>> sorry!
>>
>> Elevators open at 5:45 and building security closes access to the floor
>> at 6:30.
>>
>> When you arrive at the Iovation office, please sign in on the iPad at the
>> reception desk.
>>
>> See you there!
>>
>>
>