Category “Conferences” — 104 articles

Back From CHAR(11)

3 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
CHAR(11) finished somewhen in the night leading to today, if you consider the social events to be part of it, which I definitely do. This conference has been a very good one, both on the organisation side of things and of course for its content. It began with a perspective about the evolution of replication solutions, by Jan Wieck himself. In some way Skytools is an evolution of Slony, in the sense that it reuses the same concepts, a part of the design, and even share bits of the implementation (like the txid_snapshot datatype that were added in PostgreSQL 8.

Prêt pour CHAR(11) ?

2 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQLFr Confs
La semaine prochaine déjà se tient CHAR(11), la conférence spécialisée sur le Clustering, la Haute Disponibilité et la Réplication avec PostgreSQL. C’est en Europe, à Cambridge cette fois, et c’est en anglais même si plusieurs compatriotes seront dans l’assistance. Si vous n’avez pas encore jeté un œil au programme, je vous encourage à le faire. Même si vous n’aviez pas prévu de venir… parce qu’il y a de quoi vous faire changer d’avis !

Back from Ottawa, preparing for Cambridge

1 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
While Magnus is all about PG Conf EU already, you have to realize we’re just landed back from PG Con in Ottawa. My next stop in the annual conferences is CHAR 11, the Clustering, High Availability and Replication conference in Cambridge, 11-12 July. Yes, on the old continent this time. This year’s pgcon hot topics, for me, have been centered around a better grasp at SSI and DDL Triggers. Having those beasts in PostgreSQL would allow for auditing, finer privileges management and some more automated replication facilities.

Extensions in 9.1

3 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
If you’ve not been following closely you might have missed out on extensions integration. Well, Tom spent some time on the patches I’ve been preparing for the last 4 months. And not only did he commit most of the work but he also enhanced some parts of the code (better factoring) and basically finished it. At the previous developer meeting his advice was to avoid putting too much into the very first version of the patch for it to stand its chances of being integrated, and while in the review process more than one major PostgreSQL contributor expressed worries about the size of the patch and the number of features proposed.

Back from FOSDEM

1 mins read Conferences, PostgreSQL Confs
This year we were in the main building of the conference, and apparently the booth went very well, solding lots of PostgreSQL merchandise etc. I had the pleasure to once again meet with the community, but being there only 1 day I didn’t spend as much time as I would have liked with some of the people there. In case you’re wondering, my extension’s talk went quite well, and several people were kind enough to tell me they appreciated it!

Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France