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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.

Previously on Talking Postgres:<br>Talking Postgres Ep 38: How I went from Oracle to Postgres (with a big NoSQL detour) with Gwen Shapira<br>Links mentioned in this episode:<br>Seattle Postgres User Group: Meetup page<br>Seattle Postgres User Group: YouTube channel<br>User Group Map from PGConfEU 2025 talk: 48 Postgres User Groups during PG18 timeframe<br>PostgreSQL.org: Listing of local Postgres User Groups<br>Postgres Meetup For All (a virtual meetup): Meetup page<br>Jeremy Schneider’s Blog: Ardent Performance Computing<br>Poster: Postgres Happiness Hints<br>PGConf.dev 2026: Posters from Poster Session<br>PGConf.dev 2026 Poster Session: Talking Postgres poster<br>POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026: Jeremy’s POSETTE 2026 talk with Leonardo Cecchi<br>POSETTE 2026: Livestream 3 schedule & talks<br>Oracle docs: Oracle Database Concepts PDF<br>Book: Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table

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Claire Giordano

Head of open source community efforts for Postgres at Microsoft. Ex-Citus Data, Amazon, Sun Microsystems, and Brown University CS. Serves on PGCA board. Prolific Postgres conference speaker. Co-creator of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres. Loves sailing in Greece.

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Jeremy Schneider

Postgres Engineer & Seattle Postgres User Group co-organizer

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