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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:01:02 -0400
From: Greg Smith <greg@2ndQuadrant.com>
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On 04/17/2012 04:10 AM, Dave Page wrote:
> It's interesting that you think that's possible. I've thus far refused
> requests from our marketing department to do exactly at as I thought
> it would certainly be a violation of the policy. I'm not convinced it
> wouldn't be even now, but it's interesting to know you might find
> something acceptable.

I would think this format would work:

-What things do people like to monitor/manage on their Postgres database?
-Quick intro to what the free tools can do [pgAdmin III, Munin, etc.]
-Discussion of the things that PEM provides

If people walk away having learned something about monitoring and tools 
for PostgreSQL in general, I'd consider that a useful article meeting 
the standard I suggested here--"information provided would be of some 
use even to people who have no interest in the commercial product 
mentioned"--even if it ended with a discussion of how PEM aims to solve 
those problems.

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Greg Smith   2ndQuadrant US    greg@2ndQuadrant.com   Baltimore, MD
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