PGDay Europe 2010 BoF sessions

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.