People and Postgres: April 17th, 2019

The goal of this newsletter is to let our community know the ins-and-outs of what is happening in the world of Postgres and the Postgres ecosystem. Let's start from the top: 

• Ecosystem news

  • JD, Co-Chair of PostgresConf, was recently part of the Inside Analysis podcast: The Evolving Enterprise. This podcast is not only available on the Internet but was live on 20 radio markets. 
  • Crunchy Data Collaborates With Center for Internet Security® To Continue Advancing PostgreSQL Security For Enterprise
  • The Distributed SQL Summit is being held at PostgresConf Silicon Valley on September 20th, 2019.
    • This unique "event within an event" strategy was spearheaded by PostgresConf with the Regulated Industry summit years ago and it continues to grow with events such as the AWS Migration Day and the Pivotal Greenplum Summit. The Distributed SQL Summit is a vendor neutral single day event specializing in providing high quality Developer, Architect and other Practitioner content on deploying and developing production quality products and services over Distributed SQL. It is sponsored by:

• Events

  • PostgresConf Beijing CFP is open
  • PostgresConf Silicon Valley CFP is open
  • PGIBZ is being held at the end of June in Spain!

• Notable commits for Postgres 12

  • GSSAPI Encryption support
  • Foreign Key support for partitioned tables
  • Progress reporting for CREATE INDEX
  • Generated Columns
  • REINDEX CONCURRENTLY

• Upcoming People, Postgres, Data meetups

  • NYC, April 24th: JSONB and When not to use JSONB 
  • Salt Lake City, April 25th: Automated real time reporting of PG query logs
  • Philly, April 25th, Awesome Automated APIs and Automagic REST
  • Vancouver B.C., April 30: Monitoring and Managing Autovacuum 
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