Jan,

> Thus far I don't plan on attending OSCON this year. Do people think this
> is absolutely necessary? Or can somebody else give that tutorial?

See discussion.   Steve, Chris, Andrew and Vivek seem to have it more than 
covered.   We'll miss seeing you, though.

Speaking of conventions, OSDL wants a PostgreSQL hacker to go to Ottowa Linux 
Symposium and talk to the Linux hackers about how they/we can improve PG on 
Linux.    Can you go?

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco