Simon Riggs (s...@2ndquadrant.com)

The PostgreSQL UK team will be running a one-day conference in
Birmingham, UK on Wednesday April 2nd, 2008.

http://www.postgresql.org.uk/

The main theme of the day is "PostgreSQL in the UK" and we have a range
of talks focused around the work of UK-based developers, successful
UK-based projects and UK companies.

If you're using PostgreSQL in the UK then please come along and join in,
you'll find many interesting people there from across Great Britain.

PG UK 2008 is brought to you jointly by the UK Unix User Group (UKUUG)'s
PostgreSQL Special Interest Group (SIG) and the UK PostgreSQL User Group
(UKPUG).

PG UK 2008 is running in parallel with and at the same venue as UKUUG's
Conference known as Spring 2008. If you are a delegate to PG UK 2008 you
will be able to attend Spring 2008 talks on the same day also if you
wish.

Please visit this web site for further details and links that will allow
you to book your place http://www.postgresql.org.uk/

There is an early-bird rate until the end of this month, so book soon.

Look forward to seeing you all there,

On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 07:49 -0500, Chander Ganesan wrote:

> Signalling components could be added to pg_standby at some point...

What sort of thing are you looking for?

pg_standby accepts a trigger file as well as various types of signal.

I think we all understand and agree, I just start twitching when anyone
talks about it being OK to lose transactions when backing up. You meant
the ones currently in progress, not the ones already committed and on
disk.

Yes! ...I meant via the free press, not via the courts.

On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 07:21 -0500, Chander Ganesan wrote:
> If you don't mind if you lose some transactions

That sentence has no place in any discussion about "backup" because the
risk is not just a few transactions, it is a corrupt and inconsistent
database from which both old and new data would be inaccessible.

As far as I am concerned, if any Postgres user loses data then we're all
responsible.