Reporting LIVE from OSBridge...we had the PostgreSQL BOF at the same time as our monthly PDXPUG meeting. 6 regulars, a new person, and a couple of out-of-towners were in attendance. Josh B gave us a quick overview of 8.4. 293 (or 297!) new features. In addition to the big stuff (like windowing functions) there are a ton of little administrative tweaks. I am particularly excited about the new functionality of \df - displays only user-defined fuctions.

Announcements:
PgDay is Saturday Sept 19 in Athens, GA! Make your plans now.

Michael Brewer highly recommends the use of a tuba as a booth prop. Ask him to tell you the story.

Selena & I are working on PostgreSQL equivalents for the queries in Stephan Faroult's _Refactoring SQL Applications_.

I was disappointed to learn that TrustTheVote is running on MySQL. Granted, it's an improvement over current voting software, but maybe we want to talk to them about running on a different, say, more elephantine database?

Future plans:
Josh told us about the patch review process. You don't have to be able to read C! If you can read the spec, apply the patch, verify that it works, proof the docs - you can be a reviewer! All you need to do is write a report. Webb suggested PDXPUG have a patch review party - sounds like a great idea to me!