So well - the official part of pgday.it is over now and today we had a lot of interesting talks from a number of international people covering everything from encoding(Susanne) related stuff over to full text search(Oleg) and PITR(Simon).
Josh did his keynote on new features in 8.3 which is something I'm a "bit" familiar with - but nevertheless it contained quite a lot of information especially the announcement of the official benchmarks sun did was very impressive and clearly how powerful and also cost effective PostgreSQL really is.
Again we got ton's of food and well there was also this guy doing interviews for a satellite TV station (boy do I hope that mine will not get broadcasted ...).
We will soon meet up at the bar of the prato linux usergroup for doing a bit of brainstorming and discussions on a possible european postgresql usergroup and afterwards we are going to have beer, grappa, wine and lot's and lot's of fun with our new Italian friends.
pgday.it in Prato was a truly marvelous conference, but everything is eventually coming to an end and so did this conference. On sunday Gabriele and Andrea took us one a tour through Florence ending in a great dinner and a bit of a challenge to catch the
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