== PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 24 2006 ==
We need students and mentors who want to work on PostgreSQL projects
for Google's next Summer Of Code. One of last year's winners was
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/qbe/ Query By Example. If you are a
professor or a college/gradute student interested in doing a
database-oriented Summer of Code project, especially if you already
have your own project which relates to PostgreSQL, please contact Josh
Berkus (josh@postgresql.org) as soon as possible.
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/summerofcode
There is a new poll.
http://www.postgresql.org/community/
Registration for the PostgreSQL Anniversary is open
http://conference.postgresql.org/Registration
The PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit is brought to you by Afilias,
EnterpriseDB, GreenPlum, Pervasive and Sun Microsystems.
== PostgreSQL Local ==
PostgreSQL was a popular subject during the FISL 7.0 in Porto Alegre,
Brazil. The event, which had over 5000 attendees, took place on April
19th through April 22nd. PostgreSQL content included:
Diogo Biazus
* PostgreSQL Optimization.
Leonardo Cezar
* PL/PgSQL the Power of Server-Side Programming.
David Fetter
* DBI-Link: A Universal Database Connector
* Perl and PostgreSQL
Rodrigo Hjort
* PostgreSQL: A success story for Sao Paulo's subway.
Carlos Eduardo Santos Pires and Rilson Oscar do Nascimento
* Comparing MySQL and PostgreSQL performance on OLTP systems.
Fabio Telles Rodriguez and Fernando Ike de Oliveira
* Migrating from Oracle to PostgreSQL.
Euler Taveira
* Slony I and PgSQL replication.
Altough the comunity didn't have a booth at FISL this year, plans are
already in place to to have one for the Conisli in November in Sao
Paulo.
== PostgreSQL in the News ==
Here's a review of the Coverity situation.
http://www.gcn.com/print/25_8/40387-1.html
PostgreSQL used in fundamental research aimed at curing Hepatitis C.
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060418/netu047.html?.v=18
A report on cross-platform PostgreSQL deployments:
http://www.databasejournal.com/news/article.php/3599866
PostgreSQL at the Automobile Association of South Africa
http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=966
Planet PostgreSQL: http://www.planetpostgresql.org/
General Bits, published on Mondays (PST/PDT):
http://www.varlena.com/GeneralBits/
PostgreSQL Weekly News is brought to you this week by David Fetter,
Diogo Biazus and Robert Treat