Where do PostgreSQL specialists come from? They have all studied once at the universities. What kinds of knowledge in PostgreSQL they received? How to prevent all those years spent by a student inside the walls of a university from going amiss when it comes to experience with PostgreSQL? Which role can the professional community play in this?<br /> <br /> A student who studies databases in a university begins by writing simple SQL queries. However, he should aim to study and learn how to use advanced (and more exciting) things such as triggers and stored procedures. Traditionally, the "Relational databases" discipline is studied during the third year at the university. Hower, in my educational occupation I prefer to accustom students to databases during their first year in context of ther disciplines such "Programming languages" and "Introduction to software engineering". I always propose usage of PostgreSQL under Linux or FreeBSD instead of MS Access under OS Windows. As for such things as triggers and stored procedures, we study them by implementing mechanisms of storing hierarchical data structures in relational databases.