PGDay.EU 2009 - approaching fast!

PGDay.EU 2009 is approaching fast - have you registered yet?

Europe's premier PostgreSQL conference organised by PostgreSQL Europe and PostgreSQLfr will be held on November 6th and 7th at ParisTech Telecom in Paris, France. With an outstanding lineup of talks over the two days of the event, with tracks in English and French, this is the must-attend PostgreSQL conference this year!

http://2009.pgday.eu/start

Speakers will include well known community members and developers such as Simon Riggs, Gavin M. Roy, Gabriele Bartolini, Dimitri Fontaine, Joshua Drake and Guillaume Lelarge speaking on a wide range of topics. The full schedule can be seen at http://2009.pgday.eu/schedule

If you are planning on attending, please register as soon as possible at http://2009.pgday.eu/register. Early registration will help us ensure you get a T-Shirt and conference goodies!

Details of the venue and hotels in the local area can also be found on the conference website. If you have yet to book your accommodation, I would suggest doing so as soon as possible as Paris is quite busy at this time of year.

See you in Paris!

StackBuilder application updates (again!)

Some more StackBuilder application updates, hot off the build servers:

First up is libpq64, which is a new installer offering a 64 bit build of libpq for use with Win64 applications. For various reasons, we don't currently have a Win64 port of Postgres, but this package allows you to interface with Postgres from your own 64 bit applications.

Secondly, we have updates to PostGIS. Leo & Regina from the PostGIS community have taken over maintenance of the PostGIS Windows installer from Mark Cave-Ayland and have built PostGIS 1.4.0 for PostgreSQL 8.3 and 8.4.

Finally, a PostGIS 1.4 installer for PostgreSQL 8.4 is also now available for Mac and Linux 32/64bit courtesy of the guys in the EnterpriseDB installer team.

As always, enjoy :-)

StackBuilder application updates

Yikes, it's been a while since my last post. Well part of the reason for that is that I forgot to mention the last set of updates we published for StackBuilder at the end of last month. Sorry 'bout that. Anyway, hot on the heels of those, we have some more updates, fresh from the QA folks here at EnterpriseDB, so here's the combined list of updated packages:

• ApachePHP 2.2.11-5.2.9-2
• Drupal 6.12-1
• MediaWiki 1.15.0-1
• phpBB 3.0.5-1
• EnterpriseDB Tuning Wizard for PostgreSQL 1.3-1
• EnterpriseDB MySQL -> PostgreSQL Migration Wizard 1.1-2
• PostgreSQL JDBC drivers 8.4-701-1
• PostgreSQL ODBC drivers (psqlODBC) 08.04.0100-1
• PostgreSQL .NET drivers (Npgsql) 2.0.5-1
• Slony for PostgreSQL 8.4.x 2.0.2-1

As always, enjoy :-)

After the EDB party...

Well, it's that time of year again, when I make an ill-advised post immediately following the EnterpriseDB party whilst full of beer at 2:30AM!

After some excellent talks today, as well as our keynote - which seemed to be well received, if not that polished, we held the usual conference party. As I mentioned in a previous post (which I can't be bothered to link to right now), we held it in the Velvet Room on the Byward Market again, this time without the dueling pianos. The venue staff laid on two buffets this year so we weren't all crammed in the room upstairs - they told me just before we left that we had 70 downstairs and 70 upstairs for dinner! That seems like a pretty good turnout to me :-)

Anyway, I need to get some sleep now, as much to Greg's disgust, it's breakfast at 9AM with Magnus & Selena. Laterz....

PGCon 2009 - Day 1

Yesterday was the first full day for me at PGCon here in Ottawa. After quite a few beers upon arrival on Tuesday evening, the quiet serenity of the Developer Meeting seemed like it would be the perfect way to unwind. Following weeks of planning (mainly on Greg's part), the Novotel proved to be an excellent venue, with a nice room, AV equipment that just worked, and some interesting food (popcorn, fruit pizza or candyfloss anyone?). We had 24 hackers there in person, and were joined by Suzuki-san, Shimogaki-san and Takahiro-san (from NTT) on the phone - who were with us from something like 10PM to 6AM their time - and Simon Riggs via Skype. The minutes will be posted on the wiki as soon as Josh Berkus is able to write them up from his notes, but in short, we had a number of fruitful discussions on various topics. Certainly a successful meeting in my mind.

After we left the Novotel, Selena, Magnus and I headed to Don Cherries to work on our slides. I had a text from Magnus just before I left the UK, telling me we were doing the keynote. Of course, I put it down to too much beer on his art, but it turns out we did manage to get conned into doing the talk, so figured we'd better come up with something to talk about. It's only a short slot, so I shouldn't be able to embarress myself too much hopefully.

Finished off the evening with a quick beer with Denis, Jimbo and Scottie from EDB and Gavin, Jonah and Michael from MyYearbook.com, before heading off to Colonade Pizza for pizza and a couple more beers with a few of the usual suspects, courtesy of Paul, head honcho at the Pythian Group. Thanks Paul!

Oh well, that's enough for now - got that pesky keynote soon and need to get ready. More later, after this year's EnterpriseDB Party (assuming I survive)!

EnterpriseDB party at PGCon

A few people have asked me if EnterpriseDB will be hosting a party at PGCon 2009, as we've done in previous years, and I'm pleased to announce that yes, we will!

As always, the party is open to all PGCon attendees, organisers and speakers and will include a dinner and booze (Mmmmm, beeeer). This year however, due to popular demand we have not booked the dueling pianos again!

The party will be at:

The Velvet Room
62 York Street
Ottawa, ON K1N 5T1
(613) 241-6810

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Doors open at 6:30PM on Thursday 21st May, and dinner will be served from around 7PM. See you there!

Goodbye

Dear pgAdmin Community,

You may be aware that the pgAdmin project has been in existence for nearly 11 years now. During this time, the development team have spent thousands of hours writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code and documentation, engineering complex features and support for multiple versions of PostgreSQL, Postgres Plus and Greenplum, and providing support to thousands of users. As I'm sure you can understand, after so many years a group of the development team members have reached the point where we feel we've given as much as we can to the project.

Having received a offer from a very large and well known software company for ownership of our copyright to the source code, we have decided to close down the project, effective immediately. I cannot speak for all of my colleagues on the development team but personally I am looking forward to a complete change of lifestyle, having purchased a farm in New Zealand where my family and I will be raising sheep and I get to play thrash metal on my bass guitar as loudly as I like without annoying the neighbours! Magnus tells me he is looking into upgrading his yacht and taking a trip around the world, and Guillaume is going to spend his time drinking wine in his new vinyard at Château Margoux.

Please be aware that the mailing lists and website will be shutdown around 12PM today as the project transitions to its new owner who will be announcing availability of support contracts and professional services shortly.

I'd like to thank all of our users and contributors over the past 11 years - it's been an absolute pleasure working with all of you.

--
Dave Page
pgAdmin Project Lead