Conference Sessions - PGConf.EU 2011

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PGConf.EU 2011. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

DBA, English

• A PostgreSQL Service: Advantages and Trade-offs (Peter van Hardenberg)
• Bottom-up Database Benchmarking (Greg Smith)
• Explaining the Postgres Query Optimizer (Bruce Momjian)
• Extensions are good for business logic (Dimitri Fontaine)
• Fast GiST index build (Alexander Korotkov)
• Geo in your database : PostGIS (Vincent Picavet)
• Improving VACUUM Suction (Greg Smith)
• Leveraging filesystem snapshots to provide copies of production data for testing (Jon Erdman)
• Managing Terabytes (Selena Deckelmann)
• Migration to PostgreSQL - a holistic view (Harald Armin Massa)
• More Mistakes Were Made (Selena Deckelmann)
• Port databases from MySQL to PostgreSQL (Andreas Scherbaum)
• PostgreSQL 9.1 - what's new (Magnus Hagander)
• Reliable Cloud Databases with WAL-E (Daniel Farina)
• Synchronous Replication and Durability Tuning (Greg Smith, Simon Riggs)
• The PostgreSQL replication protocol, tools and opportunities (Magnus Hagander)
• Troubleshooting Slony (Steve Singer)
• What's new in pgpool-II 3.1 (Jean-Paul Argudo)
• What use are the statistics views? (Guillaume Lelarge)

Developer, English

• Accelerating Local Search with PostgreSQL 9.1 (Jonathan S. Katz)
• Asynchronous Notifications for Fun and Profit (Marc Balmer)
• Connecting the Debian and PostgreSQL worlds (Christoph Berg)
• Data Distribution with pg_amqp & RabbitMQ (Gavin M. Roy)
• Debugging complex SQL queries with writable CTEs (Gianni Ciolli)
• Exposing the power of PostgreSQL to Ruby (Will Leinweber)
• Find your slow queries, and fix them! (Stephen Frost)
• Heralding the Death of NoSQL (Will Leinweber)
• Introducing ISO 21090 Healthcare Datatypes (Yeb Havinga)
• Look Out The Window Functions (and free your SQL) (Gianni Ciolli)
• Metering the smart way - a smart grid for the datacenter (Stefan Kaltenbrunner)
• New plugin architecture in phpPgAdmin and what to expect from it (Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais, Leonardo Augusto Sapiras)
• PostgreSQL at the center of your dataverse (Dave Page)
• Relational Database Designer for pgAdmin (Guillaume Lelarge, Luis Ochoa)
• Review of Patch Reviewing (Stephen Frost)
• Serializable Snapshot Isolation (Heikki Linnakangas)
• Writing Django Extensions for PostgreSQL (Jonathan S. Katz)

French

• Best practices with Ora2Pg (Gilles Darold)
• londiste 3 et slony 2.1 (Cédric Villemain)
• Migrer à PostgreSQL: comment s'y prendre? (Jean-Paul Argudo)

General

• Closing (Dave Page)
• Funding The Future: The Role of PostgreSQL in the Post Oracle Era (Ed Boyajian)
• Keynote: Afilias Winning Bet on Open Source (Ram Mohan)
• Lightning talks (Harald Armin Massa)
• Mission impossible? Can I replace my most important databases with PostgreSQL? (Michael Meskes)
• PostgreSQL Roadmap (Simon Riggs)
• vFabric Data Director (Poojan Kumar)
• Welcome and opening (Magnus Hagander)

Training, English

• Mastering PostgreSQL Administration (Bruce Momjian)
• Performance From Start to Crash (Greg Smith)
• Slony, still a useful replication tool (Guillaume Lelarge)
• Streaming replication, hot standby and synchronous replication (Magnus Hagander)

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