Christopher Browne

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#1Steve Singer
steve@ssinger.info

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony
replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He
always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how
something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

#2Bikram Majumdar
bikramma@gmail.com
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

So sorry to hear this news.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 17:29 Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

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It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the
PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony
replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He
always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how
something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

#3Christophe Pettus
xof@thebuild.com
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

On Nov 4, 2020, at 15:29, Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris Browne passed away recently.

I'm so sorry to hear this. I did not know him well, but he was always a kind and friendly face anytime I saw him at events.

--
-- Christophe Pettus
xof@thebuild.com

#4Jan Wieck
JanWieck@Yahoo.com
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

Christopher Browne was my colleague and friend at Afilias and past for more
than a decade. I have countless memories that connect us. He will be missed.

Jan

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 18:29 Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

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It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the
PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony
replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He
always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how
something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

#5Pavan Pusuluri
pavan.pusuluri@gmail.com
In reply to: Jan Wieck (#4)
Re: Christopher Browne

So sorry to hear the news. May his soul rest in peace.

Regards
Pavan

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 6:46 PM Jan Wieck <jan@wi3ck.info> wrote:

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Christopher Browne was my colleague and friend at Afilias and past for
more than a decade. I have countless memories that connect us. He will be
missed.

Jan

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 18:29 Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the
PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony
replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem
he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He
always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how
something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

#6Joe Conway
mail@joeconway.com
In reply to: Jan Wieck (#4)
Re: Christopher Browne

On 11/4/20 7:45 PM, Jan Wieck wrote:

Christopher Browne was my colleague and friend at Afilias and past for more than
a decade. I have countless memories that connect us. He will be missed.

Jan

He will definitely be missed. Rest in Peace Chris.

Joe

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020, 18:29 Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info
<mailto:steve@ssinger.info>> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists.  He was a member of the funds committee, the PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony
replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He
always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how
something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

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Consulting, Training, & Open Source Development

#7raf
raf@raf.org
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 06:29:18PM -0500, Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony replication
system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He always had time
to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

He sounds exactly like the kind of person you want to have around.

#8Dave Cramer
pg@fastcrypt.com
In reply to: raf (#7)
Re: Christopher Browne

On Wed., Nov. 4, 2020, 8:10 p.m. raf, <raf@raf.org> wrote:

On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 06:29:18PM -0500, Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info>
wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the

PgCon

program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony replication
system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem

he

would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He always had

time

to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how something

worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

He sounds exactly like the kind of person you want to have around.

Very sorry to hear about Chris. I considered him a friend. He will be
missed.

Dave

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#9Nikolay Samokhvalov
samokhvalov@gmail.com
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

What a sad news.

Rest In Peace, Christopher.

Condolences to friends and family.

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 15:29 Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

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It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the
PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony
replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He
always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how
something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

#10Vincenzo Campanella
vinz65@gmail.com
In reply to: raf (#7)
Re: Christopher Browne

RIP Chris

Il 05.11.2020 02:09, raf ha scritto:

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On Wed, Nov 04, 2020 at 06:29:18PM -0500, Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony replication
system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He always had time
to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how something worked.

I will miss Chris

Steve

He sounds exactly like the kind of person you want to have around.

#11Simon Riggs
simon@2ndQuadrant.com
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

On Wed, 4 Nov 2020 at 23:29, Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Sad news. He was a good man and a valued contributor.

--
Simon Riggs http://www.EnterpriseDB.com/

#12Jonathan S. Katz
jonathan.katz@excoventures.com
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

On Nov 4, 2020, at 6:29 PM, Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the PgCon program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how something worked.

I am deeply saddened by this news.

I was very lucky to work with Chris on some of the committees you mentioned. He was always generous, helpful, friendly and, as you said, would be willing to listen and work with you on any problem.

I will miss Chris

+1. We will certainly miss him. My sincerest condolences to his family.

Jonathan

#13Robert Treat
xzilla@users.sourceforge.net
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 6:29 PM Steve Singer <steve@ssinger.info> wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony
replication system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He
always had time to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how
something worked.

I will miss Chris

Chris is one of the folks whom I got to meet online very early in my
time with the project, who was there in Toronto at the first
developer's conference [1]https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/obartunov/24248903/36575/36575_original.jpg, he is the one in the back, holding up the sign., and was one of the folks I always looked
forward to seeing in Ottawa, even if it was just to quickly catch-up.
I suspect his contributions to the project are understated, but a lot
of time, troubleshooting, and tutoring came from Chris to many others
of us around Slony (back when Slony was the main game in town) and
around plpgsql. Of course, he knew his way around an OS just as well
as he knew Postgres.

I think my fondest memory of Chris was one, many years back, when I
just happened to be in Toronto for non-postgres related business, and
we coordinated to meet up for a quick drink and to catch-up. He was
kind enough to offer me an invitation to a private "computer users"
dinner that he often frequented at a hole-in-the-wall Hungarian place.
I'm always game for a bit of adventure and I'm so glad I was because
ended up being a truly special night, learning much more about Chris
away from the database stuff, with a bunch of great food (still don't
know half of what it was), and the realization that this small group
of friends included several luminaries in the computer science field,
(as one example Henry Spencer, who wrote the "regex" software library
for regular expressions), who I can't imagine ever having the
opportunity to meet otherwise.

Most of us are not nearly as open and as kind as he was, and he will
indeed be missed.

[1]: https://ic.pics.livejournal.com/obartunov/24248903/36575/36575_original.jpg, he is the one in the back, holding up the sign.
he is the one in the back, holding up the sign.

Robert Treat
https://xzilla.net

#14Bruce Momjian
bruce@momjian.us
In reply to: Steve Singer (#1)
Re: Christopher Browne

On Wed, Nov 4, 2020 at 06:29:18PM -0500, Steve Singer wrote:

It is with much sadness that I am letting the community know that Chris
Browne passed away recently.

Chris had been a long time community member and was active on various
Postgresql mailing lists. He was a member of the funds committee, the PgCon
program committee and served on the board of the PostgreSQL Community
Association of Canada. Chris was a maintainer of the Slony replication
system and worked on various PG related tools.

I worked with Chris for over 10 years and anytime someone had a problem he
would jump at the chance to help and propose solutions. He always had time
to listen to your problem and offer ideas or explain how something worked.

FYI, the funeral service is online today at 11am US/Eastern time (in one
hour):

https://youtu.be/hOgMwmFYJM4

The URL was listed on the web page of the obituary:

https://www.arbormemorial.ca/capital/obituaries/christopher-bruce-browne/57436/

--
Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> https://momjian.us
EnterpriseDB https://enterprisedb.com

The usefulness of a cup is in its emptiness, Bruce Lee