Conference Sessions - PGConf.EU 2013

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PGConf.EU 2013. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

Training

• Data Processing Inside PostgreSQL (Bruce Momjian)
• PostgreSQL indexing (Hans-Jürgen Schönig)
• PostgreSQL Performance Tuning (Bruce Momjian)
• PostgreSQL & PostGIS (Gianni Ciolli)
• Writing & using Postgres Extensions (Dimitri Fontaine)

Keynotes

• Closing (Dave Page, Magnus Hagander)
• Keynote: Handling the Spotlight: How PostgreSQL can become the database of choice (Mark Taylor)
• Lightning talks (Harald Armin Massa)
• PostgreSQL Futures (Simon Riggs)
• PostgreSQL in 5 years - Expectations from the market place (Keith Alsheimer)
• Welcome and opening (Magnus Hagander)

General

• Agile Oracle to PostgreSQL migrations (Gabriele Bartolini)
• Business Intelligence & Performance (Simon Riggs)
• Conduct change from Oracle to PostgreSQL (Jean-Paul Argudo)
• Elephants in fashion (Valentine Gogichashvili)
• Epic fails in the RDBMS world (Willem Leenen)
• Federation with Foreign Data Wrappers (David Fetter)
• Hierarchies Without Masters (Gianni Ciolli)
• Migrating from MySQL to PostgreSQL (Dimitri Fontaine)
• Postgres from Vision to Reality, ABNAMRO Client case (Rob Sijmons)
• PostgreSQL for Rails (Roland Sonnenschein)
• PostgreSQL - One of the most important Open Source projects (Michael Meskes)
• Postgres versus an anonymous database from Redwood (Gregory Stark)
• Postgres what they really use (Craig Kerstiens)
• Success stories on migrating from Sybase ASE to PostgreSQL (Achim Eisele, Jens Wilke)
• Switching Horses Overnight - a Software Manufacturer's View on Replacing an Existing Database Management System with PostgreSQL (Robert Lichtenberger, Stefan Andreatta)
• Useful PostgreSQL Extensions -- the extensions behind the scenes (Devrim Gündüz)
• What's New in PostgreSQL 9.3 (Robert Treat)

DBA

• Detecting performance bottlenecks (Hans-Jürgen Schönig)
• Doing PITR Right - There's more than just replication (Stephen Frost)
• Indexes: The neglected performance all-rounder (Markus Winand)
• Introduction of pg_statsinfo and pg_stats_reporter ~Statistics Reporting Tool for DBA~ (Mitsumasa KONDO)
• pgBadger v.4 (Jean-Paul Argudo)
• PostgreSQL Backups, the good the bad and the ugly (Joshua D. Drake)
• PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery with Barman (Gabriele Bartolini)
• Visualizing Postgres (Will Leinweber)

Developer

• Concurrency in Postgres (Peter Geoghegan)
• Explaining the Index of PostgreSQL Indexes (Jonathan S. Katz)
• Going spatial with PostGIS and more (Hugo Mercier)
• Gotcha! Finer points of the postgres query planner and how to use them in your queries (Atri Sharma)
• LATERAL querying in 9.3; keep up with the new features! (Gianni Ciolli)
• Materialised views now and the future (Thom Brown)
• My experience with embedding PostgreSQL (Jignesh Shah)
• Nulls Make Things Easier? (Bruce Momjian)
• Pagination done the PostgreSQL way (Markus Winand)
• Using Postgres FDW w/ a sharded PostgreSQL Database (Stephen Frost)
• Wiretapping the Wire Protocol: automatic data visualization for psql with Cartographer and FEMEBE (Maciek Sakrejda)

Hacker

• Binary storage for nested data structures and application to hstore data type. (Oleg Bartunov)
• Multicorn: writing Foreign Data Wrappers in python (Ronan Dunklau)
• Next generation of GIN (Alexander Korotkov, Oleg Bartunov)
• Taking advantage of custom background workers (Michael Paquier)
• Writing a foreign data wrapper (Bernd Helmle)
• Writing a user-defined datatype (Heikki Linnakangas)

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