Category “PostgreSQL Confs” — 81 articles

Back From CHAR(11)

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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.

Back from Ottawa, preparing for Cambridge

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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

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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

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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!

Going to FOSDEM

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A quick blog entry to say that yes: And I will even do my Extension’s talk which had a success at pgday.eu. The talk will be updated to include the last developments of the extension’s feature, as some of it changed already in between, and to detail the plan for the ALTER EXTENSION ... UPGRADE feature that I’d like to see included as soon as 9.1, but time is running so fast.

Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France