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Selena Deckelmann will teach PostgreSQL on CodeLesson

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I'm also thinking about a advanced tuning class - hardware + core pg. Would love feedback from HN on the outline.

Looks great to me - I'm excited to see you're covering replication. Have you considered covering some of the more useful PostgreSQL extensions, like geospatial or tsearch2?

tsearch2 would be easy to add to the intro course. Thanks for the suggestion!

PostGIS may be an advanced topic, but you're right that it should be mentioned. I'll think about whether I can come up with a concise way to cover it, with an eye toward more indepth coverage in another course.

Hi Selena, how about an course on optimization, configuration and advanced features of PostgreSQL ? I know at least 3-4 people from my extended group who will be interested.

Would love to! Thanks for the feedback. I've started an outline for another class.

is there a cost for taking these courses?

Yes -- we typically announcing pricing after we announce the course, but pricing for this course will be in line with the other courses that are on the site now.

You can sign up for the course today and we'll follow up via email with more info.

So ~$300?

You're probably looking at the prices for the four-week courses? PostgreSQL is a six-week course.

It would really be nice if you just told us an approximate amount rather than dancing around. I don't care if it's 10, 50 even 100 in either direction. It's just about ballpark to get a feel for value.

We're not dancing around anything; the price has not been set yet. To put that another way, you currently have as much information as anyone does regarding the price of the course.

I put out a price and you say I must be looking at a different length course. Clearly, I am not getting the right price info and you are implying there is better information there. Then you say I have as much information as you? That doesn't make sense.

I am not going to bother responding any further either way, but hopefully you just answer the question with a number, approximate, guess, average, median, I don't care. Maybe other readers will find it useful, I am done.

No one should ever get this upset on HN.

To put that another way, you currently have as much information as anyone does regarding the price of the course.

Sweet. I'll offer 20:1 that the final price falls between $100 and $4000.

Can anyone do better?

selena: is this not a conflict of interest with troll academy?

that's actually a higher learning institution. but, to answer the larger question: given the target audience, I'd say it's complimentary.

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