Today I found this screenshot of two talks, which we presented at PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit in Toronto, July 8-9, 2006. That time we felt ourselves as a provincial "never-seen" hackers from other world with not good spoken english. Fortunately, words of our teacher Ya.B.Zeldovich, who said once to us on a lecture, that "if people came to listen you, it doesn't matter how good you speak on their language" came to me, and we relaxed a bit. Today, GIN and FTS are well-recognized postgres features.
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This year we will celebrate 20-th Anniversary and while actual date is still discussed (postgres, postgres95, postgresql, postgresql.org), July 8 is a good date, at least to me. So, I decided to prepare my talk about 20 years of postgres from my personal point of view (I started working with postgres since 1995). There are many interesting facts about how I, Teodor, then Alexander started working on non-structural data types (arrays-hstore-fts-jsonb), postgres extendability (gist, gin, sp-gist, vodka), plus some other not known projects, like rtree for Antonin Guttman (the author of rtree). I want to share information about all our sponsors, who helped us a lot. Last year we organized russian postgres company "Postgres Professional" to work on postgres and provide professional support and consulting, and of course I will outline what we are working on and talk about our roadmap. We have many interesting projects (completed and ongoing) and I hope people will be interested to know about them. Postgres is one of the hardcore open-source project with strong community, which share ideas of open-source. Working with community is one of the biggest trial and challenge for any developer. Postgres developers community (PGDG) evolves from group of open-source developers, who worked on postgres in their spare time (moonlight job at kitchen), to professionals, who worked on postgres in postgres-centric companies, at least major contributors. I, Teodor and Alexander were the last I think, now we are Postgres Professionals :) I think that is normal, since postgres now is enterprise-level database and enterprise wants professional services. Postgres in Russia has a great time now and last winter conference of russian postgres community pgconf.ru in February, Moscow with 602 participants clearly show this. In the past we worked mostly with open-source based companies, but now in enterprise era we are learning how to work with big corporates.
Summer conference of russian postgres community Pgday'16 Russia will take place Jul 6-8, 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Russia and it's the closest match to date of 20-th Anniversary (in my interpretation), so I decided to submit my talk there. I'd like to see there any people from picture below. I remember, that Alvaro Herrera bought his Canon camera in Toronto and made this group picture. We now are 10 years older :(
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This year we will celebrate 20-th Anniversary and while actual date is still discussed (postgres, postgres95, postgresql, postgresql.org), July 8 is a good date, at least to me. So, I decided to prepare my talk about 20 years of postgres from my personal point of view (I started working with postgres since 1995). There are many interesting facts about how I, Teodor, then Alexander started working on non-structural data types (arrays-hstore-fts-jsonb), postgres extendability (gist, gin, sp-gist, vodka), plus some other not known projects, like rtree for Antonin Guttman (the author of rtree). I want to share information about all our sponsors, who helped us a lot. Last year we organized russian postgres company "Postgres Professional" to work on postgres and provide professional support and consulting, and of course I will outline what we are working on and talk about our roadmap. We have many interesting projects (completed and ongoing) and I hope people will be interested to know about them. Postgres is one of the hardcore open-source project with strong community, which share ideas of open-source. Working with community is one of the biggest trial and challenge for any developer. Postgres developers community (PGDG) evolves from group of open-source developers, who worked on postgres in their spare time (moonlight job at kitchen), to professionals, who worked on postgres in postgres-centric companies, at least major contributors. I, Teodor and Alexander were the last I think, now we are Postgres Professionals :) I think that is normal, since postgres now is enterprise-level database and enterprise wants professional services. Postgres in Russia has a great time now and last winter conference of russian postgres community pgconf.ru in February, Moscow with 602 participants clearly show this. In the past we worked mostly with open-source based companies, but now in enterprise era we are learning how to work with big corporates.
Summer conference of russian postgres community Pgday'16 Russia will take place Jul 6-8, 2016 in Saint Petersburg, Russia and it's the closest match to date of 20-th Anniversary (in my interpretation), so I decided to submit my talk there. I'd like to see there any people from picture below. I remember, that Alvaro Herrera bought his Canon camera in Toronto and made this group picture. We now are 10 years older :(
