== PostgreSQL Weekly News - April 24 2006 ==

== 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(at)postgresql(dot)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