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PGDay.eu, Paris: it was awesome!

moment. Lots of attendees, lots of quality talks ( slides are online), good food, great party: all the ingredients were there!

It also was for me the occasion to first talk about this tool I’ve been working on for months, called pg_staging, which aims to empower those boring production backups to help maintaining staging environments (for your developers and testers).

All in all such events keep reminding me what it means exactly when we way that one of the greatest things about PostgreSQL is its community. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, consider joining!

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Dimitri Fontaine
Dimitri Fontaine
PostgreSQL Major Contributor & author of The Art of PostgreSQL