Category “Conferences” — 104 articles

The french PostgreSQL Conference, pgday.fr, was yesterday in Lyon. We had a very good time and a great schedule with a single track packed with 7 talks, addressing a diverse set of PostgreSQL related topics, from GIS to fuzzy logic, including replication. You might have guessed it already, I did talk about replication. Here’s the slide deck I did use, it’s in french, sorry if you don’t grok that language.



Last week was the annual PostgreSQL Hackers gathering in Canada, thanks to the awesome pgcon conference. This year’s issue has been packed with good things, beginning with the Cluster Summit then followed the next day by the Developer Meeting just followed (yes, in the same day) with the In Core Replication Meeting. That was a packed shedule! The in core replication project has been presented with slides titled Future In-Core Replication for PostgreSQL and got a very good reception.


J’ai eu la chance hier soir de participer à la Battle Language à la Marmite, où j’avais proposé de parler de Emacs Lisp, proposition qui s’est transformée en porte-étendard de la grande famille Lisp. J’ai utilisé avec plaisir certains contenu de Lisperati dans ma présentation et je vous recommande le détour sur ce site ! J’ai dans cette présentation très rapide (5 minutes seulement) mentionné l’approche axiomatique de John McCarthy lorsqu’il a découvert le language, on peut en lire un peu plus sur le site de Paul Graham et son article The Roots of Lisp et le code associé, une implémentation du LISP de McCarthy en common lisp.


Another great conference took place last week, PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 was in Amsterdam and plenty of us PostgreSQL geeks were too. I attended to lot of talks and did learn some more about our project, its community and its features, but more than that it was a perfect occasion to meet with the community. Dave Page talked about SQL/MED under the title PostgreSQL at the center of your dataverse and detailed what to expert from a Foreign Data Wrapper in PostgreSQL 9.


La conférence PostgreSQL annuelle en Europe a lieu la semaine prochaine à Amsterdam, et j’espère que vous avez déjà vos billets, car cette édition s’annonce comme un très bon millésime ! Je présenterai donc comment utiliser les extensions, le titre en anglais est Extensions are good for business logic, et l’idée est de voir comment exploiter les extensions afin de mieux gérer vos mises à jours en bases de données.

Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France