Three days to go for the next Brighton PostgreSQL meetup. I’ll run a live hangout of the talk. You can join the event there. https://plus.google.com/events/cge4691km5qm8euj4erkcp7jecs The record will become available on youtube shortly after the talk’s end.

November 27th at 19.00 GMT I’ll talk at theBrighton PostgreSQL meetup. This time the group chosen the streaming replication as topic. The talk will cover the PostgreSQL write ahead logging and the crash recovery process. The audience will learn how to setup a standby server using the streaming replication and how to troubleshoot it. Please RSVP here.

What follows is the synthesis of several years of frustration. Before you start reading please note that the things written in the dark age section do not apply for the high end environments like Oracle. That’s mostly because starting an Oracle project without a DBA on board is an interesting and creative way to get bankrupt in few months. Obviously things evolves and maybe in the next decade my Oracle fellows will join me in this miserable situation.

Like previously said, the next Brighton PostgreSQL meetup will be September 25th at 7 pm BST. The topic chosen by the member is the query planning and execution in PostgreSQL. I will do the presentation exploring the various steps a query passes through from the client to the execution. I’ll also explain how to read the execution plan and why sometimes the executor seems to ignore the indices put in place for speeding up the operations.

Friday 14th August we kicked off the Brighton PostgreSQL Meetup. We had a nice evening with cool people all togheter discussing about PostgreSQL and how we can run effectively the meetup. We decided to have a regular monthly meetup hosted around Brighton, possibly, by companies or any suitable venue. The next meetup will be the 25th of September and this time there will be some PostgreSQL talks. The general interest favours the standby servers and the streaming replication.