European PGDay 2008

The European PGDay 2008, a collaboration between PostgreSQL Europe and ITPUG was held in Prato, Italy on October 17.18.

October 17, 2008

09:00 - 09:45 Some stuff about PostgreSQL (Dave Page & Magnus Hagander)

10:00 - 10:45 ECPG (Michael Meskes)

11:00 - 11:45 PgLoader, the parallel ETL for PostgreSQL (Dimitri Fontaine)

12:30 - 13:15 Text Search in 8.4?+ (Oleg Bartunov)

16:00 - 16:45 OLAP Made Easy: Windowing Functions in SQL (David Fetter)

15:00 - 15:45 Lightning Talks

• How to abuse PGQ for batches reliability needs (Dimitri Fontaine)
• Small farmer microfinance software system (Alex Weir)
• Continuent Tungsten (Stephane Giron)
• How Long Is a String? a.k.a. Where did all my space go? (Greg Stark)
• PostgreSQL on a NetApp (Stefan Kaltenbrunner)
• How to make a proper migration from MySQL to PostgreSQL (Susanne Ebrecht)

October 18, 2008

09:00 - 09:45 Trees and More in SQL (David Fetter)

10:00 - 10:45 Custom indexing with GiST and PostgreSQL (Dimitri Fontaine)

11:30 - 12:15 PostgreSQL in-place upgrade project (Zdenek Kotala)

12:30 - 13:15 Working with GIT and PostgreSQL (Heikki Linnakangas)

12:30 - 13:15 Porting Applications from Oracle to PostgreSQL (Peter Eisentraut)

15:00 - 15:45 Updatable views - What we want and what we have (Bernd Helmle)