April 3: Test-Fest Day

I hereby declare Saturday, April 3, PostgreSQL Test-Fest day. Get our
your computers and get ready to test Version 9.

We need *you* to spend a full day testing Postgres 9 in order to
complete the Alpha/Beta testing period on time and release 9.0 as
scheduled. Without your help testing many of the complex new features
... such as Hot Standby, Synchronous Replication, DO(), new PL/Perl,
named parameters, new Listen/Notify and more ... we simply will not be
able to release on time. There's far too much testing to be done for
our few dozen major contributors to do it all.

The San Francisco PostgreSQL Users' Group will be having a Test-Fest at
Noisebridge on Mission Street in San Francisco all day April 3. A dozen
or more of our members will be showing up with laptops, desktops and
shelling into remote servers in order to test all of the Postgres 9
features. If you are in the Bay Area, we need you to attend! There
will be free food and drink. RSVP on Meetup.

If you don't live in the SF Bay Area, that's no excuse not to
participate. First, if you have a local User Group, organize your own
Test-Fest. SFPUG's planning page is on the wiki for you to use and
copy. Further, SFPUG plans to have live streaming video of the
Test-Fest so that users from all over the world (at least, those in
compatible time zones) can participate in the Test-Fest from their own
homes and offices.

Links:
http://postgresql.meetup.com/1/calendar/12794759
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SFPUG_Beta_Test_Day
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/HowToBetaTest
http://www.postgresql.org/developer/alpha
http://developer.postgresql.org/pgdocs/postgres/release-9-0.html

PostgreSQL needs you! Help us test version 9!

2010/3/15 Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>:
> I hereby declare Saturday, April 3, PostgreSQL Test-Fest day.  Get our
> your computers and get ready to test Version 9.

I happily announce that we will follow SFPUG's Test Day here in Japan.
The TestFest JP will be held at Tokyo 3:00 - 10:00 April 4 JST, which
is equivalent to 11:00 - 18:00 April 3 PST, SFPUG's timetable. We are
thinking about communicating with you SFPUG online as well as testing
similar to topics on the SFPUG's wiki page. If you will stream
something like ustream or twitter, let me know in advance so that we
can prepare infrastructure to interact each other. Some of well-known
hackers and contributors will also be there.

For Japanese people, see JP version wiki pege:
http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/TestFest_For_9_JP
Note that attendees are encouraged to register via ATND (see below on the wiki).
We are very open now.

Regards,

--
Hitoshi Harada

> I happily announce that we will follow SFPUG's Test Day here in Japan.
> The TestFest JP will be held at Tokyo 3:00 - 10:00 April 4 JST, which
> is equivalent to 11:00 - 18:00 April 3 PST, SFPUG's timetable. We are
> thinking about communicating with you SFPUG online as well as testing
> similar to topics on the SFPUG's wiki page. If you will stream
> something like ustream or twitter, let me know in advance so that we
> can prepare infrastructure to interact each other. Some of well-known
> hackers and contributors will also be there.

Cool!

I'll see if I can figure out ustream so that you can join us.

--
-- Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://www.pgexperts.com

All,

Video will be up at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/postgresql---sfpug

--
-- Josh Berkus
PostgreSQL Experts Inc.
http://www.pgexperts.com

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> wrote:
>
> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/SFPUG_Beta_Test_Day
>

something that is missing in that page is 'removal of useless LEFT
JOIN's', that shoulb checked for both right answers and performance, i
think

--
Atentamente,
Jaime Casanova
Soporte y capacitación de PostgreSQL
Asesoría y desarrollo de sistemas
Guayaquil - Ecuador
Cel. +59387171157