Re: [GENERAL] What makes a Postgres DBA?

2007-11-06 Thread Lew
Kevin Hunter wrote: what do I need to able to do to be able to honestly say that 'I am a Postgres DBA' on my resume Greg Smith wrote: Organizing things as above, this turns into a somewhat fuzzy question about how much of the grid one has to cover before achieving that goal. Consider this;

Re: [GENERAL] What makes a Postgres DBA?

2007-11-04 Thread Greg Smith
On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Kevin Hunter wrote: Am I assuming too much already by not defining what a DBA is in general? Probably. I'd startby looking at the list of DBA duties at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_administrator and considering which of those are database-specific for a second.

Re: [GENERAL] What makes a Postgres DBA?

2007-11-04 Thread mgainty
@postgresql.org Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 4:18 AM Subject: Re: [GENERAL] What makes a Postgres DBA? On Sun, 4 Nov 2007, Kevin Hunter wrote: Am I assuming too much already by not defining what a DBA is in general? Probably. I'd startby looking at the list of DBA duties at http

Re: [GENERAL] What makes a Postgres DBA?

2007-11-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
On 11/4/07, Kevin Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on a recent thread (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-11/msg00064.php) ... Next question and one that I'm not sure how to phrase: how does one become a Postgres-savvy* DBA? Just by working with it as a developer

Re: [GENERAL] What makes a Postgres DBA?

2007-11-04 Thread Greg Williamson
Merlin Moncure wrote: On 11/4/07, Kevin Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Following up on a recent thread (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-11/msg00064.php) ... Next question and one that I'm not sure how to phrase: how does one become a Postgres-savvy* DBA? Just by working

[GENERAL] What makes a Postgres DBA?

2007-11-03 Thread Kevin Hunter
Hullo List, Following up on a recent thread (http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-general/2007-11/msg00064.php) ... Next question and one that I'm not sure how to phrase: how does one become a Postgres-savvy* DBA? Just by working with it as a developer and then moving up the ranks? (i.e