How I got started running a Postgres user group with Jeremy Schneider | Talking Postgres Ep40
Intensely local user groups have been part of Jeremy Schneider's story from the start—from Linux meetups at a Michigan coffee shop to a closet server running an Oracle database nobody knew anything about. In Episode 40 of Talking Postgres, Postgres engineer and Seattle Postgres User Group co-organizer Jeremy Schneider joins Claire to share how community led him to Postgres after 15 years with Oracle—and why "it's like I was born to be here." Plus: the newly-updated Postgres Happiness Hints poster, advice for starting your own user group, and his POSETTE 2026 talk on CloudNativePG.Chapters:
⏩ 00:00 Music & introduction
⏩ 04:15 Always interested in a bunch of things
⏩ 05:27 Mystery database in the closet
⏩ 14:00 A borrowed camera and a free conference ticket
⏩ 20:16 Switching databases is like learning another language
⏩ 23:06 The list that became the Happiness Hints
⏩ 30:56 A Sharpie, a box, and a stack of note cards
⏩ 37:10 "It's like I was born to be here"
⏩ 41:06 First thing I did in Seattle was find a user group
⏩ 48:36 Low barriers, open doors, and express lanes
⏩ 53:46 "If somebody doesn't do it, the meetup's not going to be there"
⏩ 1:01:46 Don't overthink it, just get people together
⏩ 1:08:31 Intensely local, by design
📜 Full transcript available at: https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-running-a-postgres-user-group-with-jeremy-schneider/transcript
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Previously on Talking Postgres:
🔹 Talking Postgres podcast Ep 38 with Gwen Shapira: https://youtu.be/g4NqAf7w-0I?si=8iUy7jwEFjv-TN2_
More Links mentioned in this episode:
🔹 Seattle Postgres User Group Meetup page: https://www.meetup.com/seattle-postgres/
🔹 Seattle Postgres User Group YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@seattle-postgres
🔹 Map of 48 Postgres User Groups during PG18 timeframe: https://speakerdeck.com/clairegiordano/behind-the-postgres-18-major-release-an-analysis-of-contributions-claire-giordano-fosdem-pgday-2026?slide=68
🔹 PostgreSQL.org Listing of local Postgres User Groups: https://www.postgresql.org/community/user-groups/
🔹 Postgres Meetup For All (a virtual meetup): https://www.meetup.com/postgres-meetup-for-all/
🔹 Jeremy Schneider’s Blog: Ardent Performance Computing: https://ardentperf.com/
🔹 Postgres Happiness Hints poster: https://ardentperf.com/happiness-hints/
🔹 PGConf.dev 2026 Poster Session: https://2026.pgconf.dev/posters.html
🔹 Talking Postgres in PGConf.dev 2026 Poster Session: https://2026.pgconf.dev/posters/talking-postgres.pdf
🔹 Jeremy’s POSETTE 2026 talk with Leonardo Cecchi: https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/quorum-based-consistency-for-cluster-changes-with-cloudnativepg-operator/
🔹 POSETTE 2026 Livestream 3 Schedule on Wed 17 June: https://posetteconf.com/2026/schedule/#livestream3
🔹 Oracle Database Concepts PDF: https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/21/cncpt/database-concepts.pdf
🔹 Oracle Insights Book: Tales of the Oak Table: https://www.amazon.com/Oracle-Insights-Tales-Oak-Table/dp/1590593871
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