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 Session: Talking Postgres poster
• POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026: Jeremy’s POSETTE 2026 talk with Leonardo Cecchi
• POSETTE 2026: Livestream 3 schedule & talks
• Oracle docs: Oracle Database Concepts PDF
• Book: Oracle Insights: Tales of the Oak Table