Category “PostgreSQL Confs” — 81 articles

At CHAR(10) Markus had a talk about Using MVCC for Clustered Database Systems and explained how Postgres-R does it. The scope of his project is to maintain a set of database servers in the same state, eventually. Now, what does it mean to get “In the Cloud”? Well there are more than one answer I’m sure, mine would insist on including this “Elasticity” bit. What I mean here is that it’d be great to be able to add or lose nodes and stay online.

It surely does not feel like a full month and some more went by since we were enjoying PGCon 2010, but in fact it was already the time for CHAR(10). The venue was most excellent, as Oxford is a very beautiful city. Also, the college was like a city in the city, and having the accomodation all in there really smoothed it all. On a more technical viewpoint, the range of topics we talked about and the even broader one in the “Hall Track” make my mind full of ideas, again.

moment. Lots of attendees, lots of quality talks ( slides are online), good food, great party: all the ingredients were there! It also was for me the occasion to first talk about this tool I’ve been working on for months, called pg_staging, which aims to empower those boring production backups to help maintaining staging environments (for your developers and testers). All in all such events keep reminding me what it means exactly when we way that one of the greatest things about PostgreSQL is its community.

In this russian page you’ll see a nice presentation of Skype databases architectures by Asko Oja himself. It’s the talk at Russian PostgreSQL Community meeting, October 2008, Moscow, and it’s a good read. The presentation page is in russian but the slides are in English, so have a nice read!