PGDay Europe 2010 BoF sessions

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Birds-of-a-feather (BoF) sessions during PGDay Europe 2010.

This is an informal activity. Pls. feel free to comment and leave a note below if there is interest.

-- Yours, Sfkeller 14:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)

Organisation

Date/Time Raster (Updated by Sfkeller 16:15, 30 November 2010 (UTC)):

  • Slot 1: Monday (Dec 6th): 17:30-18:30, Location: tba.
  • Slot 2: Tuesday (Dec 7th): 17:15-18:00, Location: tba.

Location:

  • tba. Default is meeting point in the hotel lobby.

Proposals

  • Postgres replication
  • Postgres for the cloud
  • Postgres and full text search
  • Postgres and On-line Analytical Processing (OLAP)
  • Postgres and NoSQL: Concepts and implementations (Column DBs, no schema DBs with hstore, EAV 'schema' issues, distributed databases [1] )

Scheduled

Benchmarking PostgreSQL and other DBMS

  • Moderator/anchorman: Sfkeller 14:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
  • Time/Location: See Slot 2 above.
  • Topics:
    • Benchmark suites: Using and enhancing the 'HSR Texas Spatial Database Benchmark ' ([2])
    • (pls. add your topic above)
  • Weblinks: List of database benchmarks, (others?)
  • Participants:
    • Sfkeller 14:34, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
    • (pls. add yourself above)

Tuning PostgreSQL

  • Moderator/anchorman: tbd.
  • Time/Location: tbd.
  • Topics:
    • Configuration helpers: pgtune tool, (others?)
    • Performance issues: datatypes hstore and tsvector
    • Helping others: Postgres vs. MySQL on Mediawiki; Postgres on OpenStreetMap (= EAV 'schema')
    • (pls. add your topic above)
  • Weblinks: Tuning Your PostgreSQL Server, (others?)
  • Participants:
    • Sfkeller 14:41, 30 November 2010 (UTC)
    • (pls. add yourself above)


Others tba., probably given 'enough' participants have left a note here and given there is a moderator/anchorman.