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The most exciting thing about the conference is that there have not been so many PostgreSQL major contributors together in one place since the GreatBridge-sponsored meeting in 1999 ... and back then there were only a dozen contributors to invite! 89 PostgreSQL contributors from more than 15 countries and more than 23 companies attended. 41 of these people were speakers, for 19 full sessions and 10 "lightning talks."
Bruce launched the conference by showing us a little of where we came from, in his talk "Great days seldom announce themselves." From there, we learned about new PostgreSQL technology from around the globe, including NTT Data's (Japan) performance improvements and Skype's (Estonia) load balancing architecture. The Slony-I project also announced that version 1.2, with support for Windows, is ready to release.
Of course, we also had presentations from many people working on PostgreSQL 8.2 features. This included Korry Douglas' (EnterpriseDB) PL/pgSQL debugger, Generic Inverted Indexes (GIN) by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev (DeltaSoft, Russia), and Robert Lor's (Sun Microsystems) proposal to incorporate DTrace into the PostgreSQL backend.
EnterpriseDB sponsored a dinner cruise on Friday night and announced the contribution of a $25,000 fund to be used for open source PostgreSQL development.
The conference also provided an unprecedented opportunity for the various teams working on PostgreSQL replication and clustering (including Slony-I, Postgres-R, pgPool, pl/proxy and pgCluster) to get together and exchange ideas and compare approaches. Hopefully this pooling knowledge will result in more rapid progress on the next-generation clustering for PostgreSQL.
Following the conference, there was a two-day "code sprint" (hosted by Sun) in which more than 30 PostgreSQL developers labored to get their code in shape for version 8.2, which goes into "feature freeze" on August 1st. Among the code which got pushed forwards was Greg Stark's online index build, fixing performance issues with GIN, update-in-place, hunting for locking issues, bug fixes for the Solaris port, and psql cursors.
Some more fun facts from the conference:
In the meantime, here's press coverage of the Summit:
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By any measure, the PostgreSQL Anniversary Summit was a success.The most exciting thing about the conference is that there have not been so many PostgreSQL major contributors together in one place since the GreatBridge-sponsored meeting in 1999 ... and back then there were only a dozen contributors to invite! 89 PostgreSQL contributors from more than 15 countries and more than 23 companies attended. 41 of these people were speakers, for 19 full sessions and 10 "lightning talks."
Bruce launched the conference by showing us a little of where we came from, in his talk "Great days seldom announce themselves." From there, we learned about new PostgreSQL technology from around the globe, including NTT Data's (Japan) performance improvements and Skype's (Estonia) load balancing architecture. The Slony-I project also announced that version 1.2, with support for Windows, is ready to release.
Of course, we also had presentations from many people working on PostgreSQL 8.2 features. This included Korry Douglas' (EnterpriseDB) PL/pgSQL debugger, Generic Inverted Indexes (GIN) by Oleg Bartunov and Teodor Sigaev (DeltaSoft, Russia), and Robert Lor's (Sun Microsystems) proposal to incorporate DTrace into the PostgreSQL backend.
EnterpriseDB sponsored a dinner cruise on Friday night and announced the contribution of a $25,000 fund to be used for open source PostgreSQL development.
The conference also provided an unprecedented opportunity for the various teams working on PostgreSQL replication and clustering (including Slony-I, Postgres-R, pgPool, pl/proxy and pgCluster) to get together and exchange ideas and compare approaches. Hopefully this pooling knowledge will result in more rapid progress on the next-generation clustering for PostgreSQL.
Following the conference, there was a two-day "code sprint" (hosted by Sun) in which more than 30 PostgreSQL developers labored to get their code in shape for version 8.2, which goes into "feature freeze" on August 1st. Among the code which got pushed forwards was Greg Stark's online index build, fixing performance issues with GIN, update-in-place, hunting for locking issues, bug fixes for the Solaris port, and psql cursors.
Some more fun facts from the conference:
- The furthest-travelling attendees came from Australia (Gavin Sherry) and China (Zhiyong Peng), who went slightly further than attendees from Turkey, Russia, Estonia, and the dozen attendees from Japan.
- The least-travelled attendee was Rod Taylor who came from a mere 250 meters away.
- Five women PostgreSQL hackers were present at the conference.
- Luke Lonergan, founder of GreenPlum Inc., contributed at auction $1000 for a t-shirt signed by all of the speakers and major developers at the conference. From this experience, we learned that Tom Lane's signature is worth $300.
In the meantime, here's press coverage of the Summit:
- Dru Lavigne has pretty full coverage of half of the sessions.
- Sean Michael Kerner on our tenth birthday.
- David Graham at Newsforge
- EnterpriseDB's fund
- And, of course, lots of blogging at PlanetPostgreSQL.