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[Joshua Drake]

Hey guys,

I was wondering if you guys would like to have a 45 minute, "10 steps
to optimizing PostgreSQL" talk at one of your meetings?

Joshua D. Drake

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[Steven Osborn]

Sounds pretty great... +1

[Micah Elliott]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Joshua Drake <linu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>

> I was wondering if you guys would like to have a 45 minute, "10
> steps to optimizing PostgreSQL" talk at one of your meetings?

+1

Went a short ways down that path recently, and would love to hear
more about it.

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[Dane Hesseldahl]

Yes please.

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[Matt Youell]

On Oct 21, 10:24 am, Joshua Drake <linuxp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I was wondering if you guys would like to have a 45 minute, "10 steps
> to optimizing PostgreSQL" talk at one of your meetings?

I vote no, but I'd be open to an "intro to PostgreSQL for the
Djangonaut" or similar. Maybe you could mix in an intro to Postgres
for the uninitiated?

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[Adam Lowry]

On Oct 21, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Joshua Drake wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
> I was wondering if you guys would like to have a 45 minute, "10 steps
> to optimizing PostgreSQL" talk at one of your meetings?

I'd be up for it, but I think it would be a better fit if it were
tuned to Django usage somehow, as opposed to general cases that may
not apply. Is that something you'd still want to do?

Adam

[Joshua Drake]

> I'd be up for it, but I think it would be a better fit if it were
> tuned to Django usage somehow, as opposed to general cases that may
> not apply. Is that something you'd still want to do?

Well, the idea that Django has some level of uniqueness in its
optimization model for the database seems flawed. I mean the talk
would be similar if not identical for Turbo Gears, Rails, Catalyst
etc.. The type of talk I was envisioning was:

* I am a Django Developer
* I know exactly snot about being a DBA
* What are the 10 best bang for the buck parameters I can change to
make PostgreSQL go zip and how do I decide what to change those
parameters to?

[Michael Richardson]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 5:49 PM, Joshua Drake <linu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'd be up for it, but I think it would be a better fit if it were
>> tuned to Django usage somehow, as opposed to general cases that may
>> not apply. Is that something you'd still want to do?
>
> Well, the idea that Django has some level of uniqueness in its
> optimization model for the database seems flawed. I mean the talk
> would be similar if not identical for Turbo Gears, Rails, Catalyst
> etc..  The type of talk I was envisioning was:
>
>  * I am a Django Developer
>  * I know exactly snot about being a DBA
>  * What are the 10 best bang for the buck parameters I can change to
> make PostgreSQL go zip and how do I decide what to change those
> parameters to?

I think that this is an interesting talk, especially if we can combine
it with some other talks on performance and production setups. If
there are any specific Django things - any quirks of the ORM, any
benefits you get in Django using Postgres over something else - that
would be great to hear about.

A meeting devoted to production deployments would be a good fit for
this and something that I would like to see happen - any thoughts?

[Joshua Drake]

I think that would be a good meeting but as a note, I can easily spend
an hour talking about those 10 things. We may want to turn it into a
series.

[Chris Pitzer]

I'd love to hear the talk - sounds useful, and cross polination is never a bad thing!

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[Joshua Drake]

Did we ever figure this out?

Joshua D. Drake

[Adam Lowry]

Sorry, I totally dropped the ball on this one.

JD, if you're still available let's plan on the PostgreSQL talk, and if anyone has something they'd like to talk about for 5-10 minutes, we can start with that as a warm-up. A library, a technique, or a demo would all be great.

Adam

[Michael Richardson]

It's a bit longer than 5-10 minutes, but I could give a talk on simple
offline processing with supervisor and beanstalkd in Django.

[Joshua Drake]

When would we be doing this?

[Adam Lowry]

Sorry, I thought you were volunteering for the next meeting - tomorrow, Wednesday 11/18. Is that no good for you?

[Joshua Drake]

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Adam Lowry <ad...@therobots.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I thought you were volunteering for the next meeting - tomorrow, Wednesday 11/18. Is that no good for
> you?

Actually I could do that. When and where?

[Adam Lowry]

On Nov 17, 2009, at 10:38 AM, Joshua Drake wrote:
>
> On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Adam Lowry <ad...@therobots.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sorry, I thought you were volunteering for the next meeting - tomorrow, Wednesday 11/18. Is that no good for
>> you?
>
> Actually I could do that. When and where?
>
> Joshua D. Drake

7pm at PIE - 1227 NW Davis St, Directly across from the North Face store at the corner of NW Davis & 12th.

Here's a streetview link:
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[Joshua Drake]

O.k., Confirmed. I will be doing the PostgreSQL Performance talk tomorrow.

Joshua D. Drake