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

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 ShapiraLinks mentioned in this episode:Seattle Postgres User Group: Meetup pageSeattle Postgres User Group: YouTube channelUser Group Map from PGConfEU 2025 talk: 48 Postgres User Groups during PG18 timeframePostgreSQL.org: Listing of local Postgres User GroupsPostgres Meetup For All (a virtual meetup): Meetup pageJeremy Schneider’s Blog: Ardent Performance ComputingPoster: Postgres Happiness HintsPGConf.dev 2026: Posters from Poster SessionPGConf.dev 2026 Poster Session: Talking Postgres posterPOSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026: Jeremy’s POSETTE 2026 talk with Leonardo CecchiPOSETTE 2026: Livestream 3 schedule & talksOracle docs: Oracle Database Concepts PDFBook: Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table