How I got started running a Postgres user group with Jeremy Schneider

From Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano by Microsoft

June 12, 2026 · 1h 21m · Episode 40

About this episode

Jeremy Schneider shares his journey from Oracle to Postgres and discusses the importance of local user groups.

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: Talking Postgres Ep 38: How I went from Oracle to Postgres (with a big NoSQL detour) with Gwen Shapira Links mentioned in this episode: Seattle Postgres User Group: Meetup page Seattle Postgres User Group: YouTube channel User Group Map from PGConfEU 2025 talk: 48 Postgres User Groups during PG18 timeframe PostgreSQL.org: Listing of local Postgres User Groups Postgres Meetup For All (a virtual meetup): Meetup page Jeremy Schneider’s Blog: Ardent Performance Computing Poster: Postgres Happiness Hints PGConf.dev 2026: Posters from Poster Session PGConf.dev 2026 Poster…

People in this episode

Host: Claire Giordano

Guest: Jeremy Schneider

Topics covered

Postgres user groups
community building
transition from Oracle to Postgres
local meetups
CloudNativePG

Keywords

Postgres
user group
community
Oracle
CloudNativePG
meetup
Happiness Hints

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Seattle Postgres User Group, Oracle, PostgreSQL.org

Books & works: Postgres Happiness Hints