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Big Bad PostgreSQL
I just gave a talk at OSCON on PostgreSQL. Specifically, it is a talk on migrating a portion of a large data architecture from Oracle to PostgreSQL. It is an honest assessment of what was gained and the pains involved. Several people have requested the talk be put online. Here it is:
Thursday, July 27. 2006 at 23:34 (Reply)
Theo,
Excellent slides. Wish I could have been there to see them.
I am working on in-place binary upgrade though :).
Sunday, January 21. 2007 at 08:11 (Link) (Reply)
Excellent work. I really like this.