Hmm. I was hoping for things a little more advanced than "how to use EXPLAIN and CREATE VIEW". The various embeddable languages for Postgres (e.g. PL/R, PL/Py

Hmm. I was hoping for things a little more advanced than "how to use EXPLAIN and CREATE VIEW". The various embeddable languages for Postgres (e.g. PL/R, PL/Python, etc.) would be a good topic for more discussion, IMHO. Stored procedures in a proprietary language are irritating, but migrating a commonly used scripting language into the database can sometimes boost performance massively. (Nobody would have ever used PL/SQL or the like if not for the speedup and hygiene benefits of SPs)