Conference Schedule - PGConf.EU 2011

You can find the full conference information at the conference website. This schedule is subject to changes. This page will be updated when any changes occur.

Tuesday, October 18

Amsterdam 2
Amsterdam 3
Amsterdam 1
08:30 - 09:00 - Registration
09:00 - 17:00
Performance From Start to Crash
Greg Smith
09:00 - 12:30
Streaming replication, hot standby and synchronous replication
Magnus Hagander
09:00 - 17:00
Mastering PostgreSQL Administration
Bruce Momjian
12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch
13:30 - 17:00
Slony, still a useful replication tool
Guillaume Lelarge

Wednesday, October 19

Amsterdam 2
Amsterdam 3
Amsterdam 1
08:30 - 09:30 - Registration
09:30 - 09:45
Welcome and opening
Magnus Hagander
09:45 - 10:45
Keynote: Afilias Winning Bet on Open Source
Ram Mohan
10:45 - 11:10 - Coffee
11:10 - 12:00
Migration to PostgreSQL - a holistic view
Harald Armin Massa
11:10 - 12:00
Introducing ISO 21090 Healthcare Datatypes
Yeb Havinga
11:10 - 12:00
PostgreSQL 9.1 - what's new
Magnus Hagander
12:10 - 13:00
Geo in your database : PostGIS
Vincent Picavet
12:10 - 13:00
PostgreSQL at the center of your dataverse
Dave Page
12:10 - 13:00
Look Out The Window Functions (and free your SQL)
Gianni Ciolli
13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch
14:00 - 14:50
Heralding the Death of NoSQL
Will Leinweber
14:00 - 14:50
Best practices with Ora2Pg
Gilles Darold
14:00 - 14:50
Explaining the Postgres Query Optimizer
Bruce Momjian
14:50 - 15:20 - Tea
15:20 - 16:10
Data Distribution with pg_amqp & RabbitMQ
Gavin M. Roy
15:20 - 16:10
Asynchronous Notifications for Fun and Profit
Marc Balmer
15:20 - 16:10
Synchronous Replication and Durability Tuning
Greg Smith, Simon Riggs
16:20 - 17:10
Troubleshooting Slony
Steve Singer
16:20 - 17:10
Review of Patch Reviewing
Stephen Frost
16:20 - 17:10
Metering the smart way - a smart grid for the datacenter
Stefan Kaltenbrunner

Thursday, October 20

Amsterdam 2
Amsterdam 3
Amsterdam 1
09:30 - 10:20
londiste 3 et slony 2.1
Cédric Villemain
09:30 - 10:20
vFabric Data Director
Poojan Kumar
09:30 - 10:20
Improving VACUUM Suction
Greg Smith
10:20 - 10:50 - Coffee
10:50 - 11:40
Serializable Snapshot Isolation
Heikki Linnakangas
10:50 - 11:40
Extensions are good for business logic
Dimitri Fontaine
10:50 - 11:40
Leveraging filesystem snapshots to provide copies of production data for testing
Jon Erdman
11:50 - 12:40
Fast GiST index build
Alexander Korotkov
11:50 - 12:40
Exposing the power of PostgreSQL to Ruby
Will Leinweber
11:50 - 12:40
A PostgreSQL Service: Advantages and Trade-offs
Peter van Hardenberg
12:40 - 13:40 - Lunch
13:40 - 14:30
More Mistakes Were Made
Selena Deckelmann
13:40 - 14:30
Writing Django Extensions for PostgreSQL
Jonathan S. Katz
13:40 - 14:30
Debugging complex SQL queries with writable CTEs
Gianni Ciolli
14:40 - 15:30
Connecting the Debian and PostgreSQL worlds
Christoph Berg
14:40 - 15:30
Port databases from MySQL to PostgreSQL
Andreas Scherbaum
14:40 - 15:30
What use are the statistics views?
Guillaume Lelarge
15:30 - 16:00 - Tea
16:00 - 16:50
Lightning talks
Harald Armin Massa

Friday, October 21

Amsterdam 2
Amsterdam 3
Amsterdam 1
09:30 - 10:20
What's new in pgpool-II 3.1
Jean-Paul Argudo
09:30 - 10:20
Relational Database Designer for pgAdmin
Guillaume Lelarge, Luis Ochoa
09:30 - 10:20
PostgreSQL Roadmap
Simon Riggs
10:20 - 10:50 - Coffee
10:50 - 11:40
Reliable Cloud Databases with WAL-E
Daniel Farina
10:50 - 11:40
New plugin architecture in phpPgAdmin and what to expect from it
Jehan-Guillaume (ioguix) de Rorthais, Leonardo Augusto Sapiras
10:50 - 11:40
Bottom-up Database Benchmarking
Greg Smith
11:50 - 12:40
Accelerating Local Search with PostgreSQL 9.1
Jonathan S. Katz
11:50 - 12:40
Mission impossible? Can I replace my most important databases with PostgreSQL?
Michael Meskes
11:50 - 12:40
The PostgreSQL replication protocol, tools and opportunities
Magnus Hagander
12:40 - 13:40 - Lunch
13:40 - 14:30
Migrer à PostgreSQL: comment s'y prendre?
Jean-Paul Argudo
13:40 - 14:30
Find your slow queries, and fix them!
Stephen Frost
13:40 - 14:30
Managing Terabytes
Selena Deckelmann
14:30 - 15:00 - Tea
15:00 - 15:50
Funding The Future: The Role of PostgreSQL in the Post Oracle Era
Ed Boyajian
15:50 - 16:30
Closing
Dave Page

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