What if you could turn
thousands of lines of code into
simple queries?

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.


I wrote a book!


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.


This year’s edition has been the best pgcon ever for me. Granted, it’s only my third time, but still :) As Josh said the “Hall Track” in particular was very good, and the Dev Meeting has been very effective! Extensions This time I prepared some slides to present the extension design and I tried hard to make it so that we get to agree on a plan, even recognizing it’s not solving all of our problems from the get go.



Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France