PGDAY.RU, Honored and Curious.
In one week from now, I will be visiting the pgday.ru event in St Petersburg. A big Thanks (Спасибо) goes to Timur Akhmadeev for bringing the event to my attention. Curious as I am, I decided to try and send them some abstracts, and Low-and-Behold: I got selected to speak. Twice . Wow, Honored. My head was swelling with pride... To some of my oracle Friends: I can recommend visiting non-Oracle events: You can stop bickering about the CBO or the opatch-inventory, and re-start living again. We can learn a lot, and we may even warn the PG community of some of our oracle-based mistakes. It is Interesting and Fun just exploring the fellow-speakers and topics. The PG community seems full of talent and experience. For example, they are also (re)discovering the benefits of "smart-DB" and "thick-DB" (link to "continuous delivery of stored-procedures"). So today I got my Passport back (visum approved), and I am all set to go. I really look forward