It occurs to me I forgot to congratulate the winners of the free ebooks. So without further ado:

• SAB, who seems to host a nice blog geared toward server administration.
• Stephan, who’s looking to improve existing strategies.
• Jeff and his growing PostgreSQL cluster.
• Pierre, who apparently has an experimental PostgreSQL backend for MySQL. Interesting.

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A little while ago, I wrote to the PostgreSQL general mailing list that I’d been approached by Packt Publishing to contribute a quick manual on doing PostgreSQL backups: Instant PostgreSQL Backup and Restore How-to. They’re the same guys who published Greg Smith’s PostgreSQL 9.0 High Performance book which everyone seems to swear by.

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