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SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/116.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080521T233000
UID:116@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Join us for drinks\, food\, Yahoos\, and Nintendo Wii. Let the 
 games begin!May 21\, 2007 at 6:30 p.m.Urban Well\,  244 Laurier Ave. East\,
  Ottawa\, OntarioParty on with Yahoo! and get your chance to win a FREE Wii
 !
SUMMARY:Yahoo! drinks+food - Join us for drinks\, food\, Yahoos\, and Ninte
 ndo Wii. Let the games begin!
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080521T183000
DTSTAMP:20080521T143000
DURATION:PT5H00M
LOCATION:Urban Well
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BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/105.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T173000
UID:105@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This session will cover the technical architecture of HOT (Heap
 -Only-Tuples)\, a key feature of PostgreSQL 8.3.
SUMMARY:HOT Inside - The Technical Architecture
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T163000
DTSTAMP:20080522T123000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/106.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T173000
UID:106@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Tatsuo Ishii will show and explain how to use pgPool2\, current
  project status\, and planned features.
SUMMARY:pgPool2 Demonstrated
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T163000
DTSTAMP:20080522T123000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/114.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T000000
UID:114@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:EnterpriseDB would like to invite the pgCon 2008 attendees to j
 ointhem for an evening of food\, drink and entertainment at the VelvetRoom 
 on the evening of the 22nd May.
SUMMARY:EnterpriseDB Dinner - PGCon Dinner
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T190000
DTSTAMP:20080522T150000
DURATION:PT5H00M
LOCATION:Velvet Glove
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/107.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T123000
UID:107@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:A description of how notifications currently work. LISTEN and N
 OTIFY commands.
SUMMARY:Listen/Notify - How they work\, and how they don't
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T113000
DTSTAMP:20080523T073000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/108.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T160000
UID:108@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Over the last several decades\, NASA has been one of the majorc
 ollectors of Earth climate observations from space.  The quantity ofdata fr
 om satellites has been exploding with the current generationproducing hundr
 eds of terrabytes of science data products each year.
SUMMARY:NASA - Satellite Science Data Processing with PostgreSQL
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T150000
DTSTAMP:20080522T110000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/115.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T230000
UID:115@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The last big social event...
SUMMARY:Pub Night! - Last chance for social intercourse before the Touristy
  stuff tomorrow
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T180000
DTSTAMP:20080523T140000
DURATION:PT5H00M
LOCATION:Royal Oak Pub
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/79.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T160000
UID:79@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Queues in database are rarely used\, because thus far is has be
 en impossible to implementboth robust and high-performance queue in general
 -purpose RDBMS.In PgQ we managed to solve this by generalizing snapshot-bas
 ed event tracking first introduced with rserv\, now used in Slony-I.This pr
 esentation will describe the implementation and alsoreal-life use cases.
SUMMARY:PgQ - generic high-performance queue for PostgreSQL - how it is imp
 lemented\, various uses
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T150000
DTSTAMP:20080523T110000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/72.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T160000
UID:72@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:As multi-core systems and storage space become cheaper\, Postgr
 eSQL is increasingly hard pressed to scale to the size of servers available
  to most users.  Sun's performance engineers use customer feedback and indu
 stry standard benchmarks like TPC-E and SpecJAppserver to examine what caus
 es these issues and what to do about them.
SUMMARY:Problems with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems with Multi-Terabyte 
 Data - Using customer feedback and benchmarks to reduce performance and pro
 ductivity loss
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T150000
DTSTAMP:20080522T110000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/64.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T143000
UID:64@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Core team member Peter Eisentraut gives a partially behind-the-
 scenes look at the processes that make the PostgreSQL project work.
SUMMARY:PostgreSQL Project and Release Management - What Makes the Project 
 Work
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T133000
DTSTAMP:20080523T093000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/75.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T173000
UID:75@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:search.postgresql.org uses PostgreSQL Full Text Indexing to sea
 rch mailinglists and websites. This talk will outline how it was built and 
 deployed.
SUMMARY:search.postgresql.org - Using full text search for websites and mai
 ling lists
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T163000
DTSTAMP:20080522T123000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/85.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T110000
UID:85@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This is a talk about PostgreSQL feature development as observed
  over the past 7 years.  Some features have been developed carefully\, othe
 rs have grown somewhat organically\, and in some areas features continue to
  be an area of controversy.  I explore the different strategies people take
  to developing these features\, and make some suggestions on how the commun
 ity might organise some future large feature development.
SUMMARY:Some idle thoughts on PostgreSQL project management - Why there is 
 no traffic on replica-hooks-discuss
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T100000
DTSTAMP:20080522T060000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/101.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T110000
UID:101@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:A introduction is provided to PostGIS\, a PostgreSQL extension 
 for managinggeographic feature (vector) data.  
SUMMARY:PostGIS - A Standards Based Geographic Extension for PostgreSQL 
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T100000
DTSTAMP:20080523T060000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/78.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T143000
UID:78@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:There are several ways how plProxy can be useful in case of lar
 ge sets of online data. It was designed for partitioning databases but now 
 we have taken it into use also for remote calls. pgBouncer is natural part 
 of plProxy installations. 
SUMMARY:plProxy\, pgBouncer\, pgBalancer - Paritioning databases and using 
 remote calls
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T133000
DTSTAMP:20080523T093000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/113.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T143000
UID:113@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Do you have a large amount of data that needs to be searchable\
 , aggregated and extremely secure at the same time? See many of the creativ
 e solutions that have been deployed to help facilitate how we put PostgreSQ
 L to the task of drugs.
SUMMARY:This is your PostgreSQL on drugs - Secure enough for law enforcemen
 t
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T133000
DTSTAMP:20080522T093000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/60.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T183000
UID:60@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The always enlightening\, sometimes frightening\, collection of
  talks from around the PostgreSQL community.
SUMMARY:PostgreSQL Lightning Talks - Everyone gets 5 minutes of Fame!
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T173000
DTSTAMP:20080522T133000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/84.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T183000
UID:84@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:	As the amount of data in the database grows more and 
 more it becomes necessary in most of the applications using database to org
 anize it in a way which is optimized for both high data insertion rate and 
 faster query execution. This paper presents a case study which describes a 
 database design which uses data partitioning to store huge data and a light
 weight multi-threaded application which works as a middleware for faster qu
 ery execution (up to 13 times). More emphasis is given on the multi-threade
 d application which executes queries spanning across multiple tables faster
  than only one single-threaded Postgres process. 	Approximately 90GB of dat
 a is going to be supported by this implementation with queries spanning acr
 oss entire data.
SUMMARY:Multi threaded query accelerator - A case study
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T173000
DTSTAMP:20080522T133000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
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BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/76.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T160000
UID:76@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:NTT has developed a shared-nothing replication system for Postg
 reSQL implemented with transaction log shipping and Heartbeat. The goal is 
 minimizing the system downtime and the impact for update performance. Failo
 ver can be done within 15 seconds and the overhead is at worst 7% on heavil
 y-updated workloads in the current implementation.The replication solution 
 realizes 99.999% availability so that it is applied to production systems. 
 We will explain advantages of the solution and future direction of the deve
 lopment.
SUMMARY:Synchronous Log Shipping Replication - High availability solution t
 o minimize downtime
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T150000
DTSTAMP:20080522T110000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/93.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T170000
UID:93@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Learn the strengths and weaknesses of Bucardo\, an asynchronous
  multi-master replication system\, and see a demoof it in action.
SUMMARY:Bucardo - The open source multi-master replication system
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T160000
DTSTAMP:20080523T120000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/98.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T100000
UID:98@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:After a greeting by Dan\, Bruce will consider possible future d
 irections for the PostgreSQL software and the project.  
SUMMARY:Opening Session - Welcome back to PGCon and the Path to the Future
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T090000
DTSTAMP:20080522T050000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/99.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T180000
UID:99@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Closing Session
SUMMARY:Closing Session - Good bye and thanks for all the fish
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T170000
DTSTAMP:20080523T130000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/90.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T160000
UID:90@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, we will present a detailed analysis of the scena
 rios tested (different loads and number of users). Furthermore\, measuremen
 ts reflecting improvements in the newer PostgreSQL version will be summariz
 ed.
SUMMARY:Researching PostgreSQL Performance - Results from different OS and 
 FS
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T150000
DTSTAMP:20080523T110000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/83.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T123000
UID:83@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on two common data management tasks\, and how
  the relational model can help. First\, how to answer complex questions abo
 ut your data\, and provide an answer that can be understood by non-IT peopl
 e unambiguously. Second\, how to effectively extract meaning from disorgani
 zed (or under-documented) data sets for effective data migration or reporti
 ng.
SUMMARY:Logic and Databases - Answering complex questions & migrating data
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T113000
DTSTAMP:20080522T073000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/110.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T123000
UID:110@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The integrated Rule Oriented Data management System (iRODS)\, i
 s anopen source software system that implements data grids\, persistentarch
 ives\, and digital libraries.  iRODS incorporates an RDBMS forstoring and q
 uerying persistent information and a distributed Rule Engine toinvoke micro
 -service workflows.  This session will present an overviewof iRODS\, how it
  makes use of PostgreSQL\, and a comparison ofPostgreSQL and Oracle iRODS i
 nstances.
SUMMARY:iRODS - A Large-Scale Rule-Orientated Data Management System - RDBM
 S-based Data Grid\, Persistent Archive\, Digital Library
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T113000
DTSTAMP:20080523T073000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/88.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T110000
UID:88@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever needed to get data from a spreadsheet and put it 
 in adatabase?  Have you ever wanted to do real queries on a CSV file?DBI-Li
 nk 3.0 makes these operations easy.
SUMMARY:DBI-Link 3.0 - Federating Heterogeneous Data Stores - Using speadsh
 eets and cvs files with databases
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T100000
DTSTAMP:20080522T060000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/67.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T110000
UID:67@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Java Enterprise Edition specification defines APIs that all
 ow developers to manipulate complexdata models using component or object or
 iented methods.
SUMMARY:PostgreSQL: From a Java Enterprise Point of View - Manipulating com
 plex data models using component or object oriented methods
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T100000
DTSTAMP:20080522T060000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/97.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080521T160000
UID:97@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Many common solutions used in the world of database design go b
 eyond sub-optimal to downright awful. Many times these pattern are carried 
 over from early years of database design work\, or learned from working on 
 poorly implemented solutions. This talk we discuss many of the common faux 
 pas\, focusing not only on the bad\, but hopefully providing better solutio
 ns to use in their place. 
SUMMARY:Database Anti-Patterns - Everyone else is doing it wrong\, why can'
 t we?
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080521T130000
DTSTAMP:20080521T090000
DURATION:PT3H00M
LOCATION:Fauteux 147B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/111.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T143000
UID:111@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:While PostgreSQL was busy becoming the most advanced open sourc
 e database\, MySQL became the most popular.
SUMMARY:What PostgreSQL could learn from MySQL - The learning continues
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T133000
DTSTAMP:20080522T093000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/86.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T143000
UID:86@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:An introduction into the Xbase++ language and how it supports t
 he PostgreSQL server. This lecture is intended for programmers which have X
 base++\, Clipper\, FoxPro Visual FoxPro or dbase applications in the field.
SUMMARY:Xbase++ meets PostgreSQL - Migration of existing Xbase++\, Clipper\
 , FoxPro\, Visual FoxPro or dBase applications to PostgreSQL
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T133000
DTSTAMP:20080522T093000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/62.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080520T160000
UID:62@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Learn about the issues surrounding porting database application
 s to PostgreSQL.
SUMMARY:Porting Oracle Applications to PostgreSQL
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080520T130000
DTSTAMP:20080520T090000
DURATION:PT3H00M
LOCATION:Fauteux 147B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/69.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080521T120000
UID:69@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Gain huge performance boosts for your applications with Materia
 lized Views.
SUMMARY:Materialized Views that Really Work - How to simply leverage view m
 aterialization for even the most complex cases
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080521T090000
DTSTAMP:20080521T050000
DURATION:PT3H00M
LOCATION:Fauteux 147B
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/103.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080524T143000
UID:103@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Play Tourist
SUMMARY:Tourist Time - See the sights in and/or around Ottawa
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080524T093000
DTSTAMP:20080524T053000
DURATION:PT5H00M
LOCATION:Out and about
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/102.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080521T200000
UID:102@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Pick up your registration pack
SUMMARY:Registration pickup - The social way to register: at the pub
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080521T150000
DTSTAMP:20080521T110000
DURATION:PT5H00M
LOCATION:Royal Oak Pub
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/87.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T170000
UID:87@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Upgrade from old PostgreSQL version to the new is now possible 
 only through data export and import. PG upgrade is a project which should a
 llow to upgrade database on-fly or with minimal down time. 
SUMMARY:PostgreSQL upgrade project - Upgrade on-the-fly or with minimal dow
 n time.  
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T160000
DTSTAMP:20080523T120000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/77.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T123000
UID:77@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:SE-PostgreSQL is a security extension built-in PostgreSQL\, col
 laborating with SELinux.The purpose is to achieve "system-wide consistency"
  in access control\, with applying fine-grained mandatory access control to
  various database objects such as tables\, columns and tuples.This feature 
 enables to deploy a database management system within information flow cont
 rolscheme integrated with operating system. It helps protect our informatio
 n asset from some of threats like leaking\, defacting and destruction.
SUMMARY:Security-Enhanced PostgreSQL - "System-wide consistency" in access 
 control
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T113000
DTSTAMP:20080523T073000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/58.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T123000
UID:58@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:We present new multicolumn feature support of the Generalized I
 nverted Index (GIN)  and  intermediate results of our research onfast onlin
 e GIN update.
SUMMARY:Improvement of Generalized Inverted Index - Multicolumn index suppo
 rt and speedup of index update
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T113000
DTSTAMP:20080522T073000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/96.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T143000
UID:96@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:We make extensive use of PostgreSQL and its spatial extension P
 ostGIS.
SUMMARY:Dracones - A PostgreSQL/MapServer WebGIS application for Public Hea
 lth Surveillance
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T133000
DTSTAMP:20080523T093000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/74.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T110000
UID:74@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:Many larger networks are based around Windows and Active Direct
 ory. Thistalk will show how PostgreSQL can integrate and work with such exi
 stingenvironments.
SUMMARY:Deploying PostgreSQL in a Windows Enterprise - Integrating with Win
 dows and Active Directory
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T100000
DTSTAMP:20080523T060000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
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STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/66.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T170000
UID:66@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will introduce Npgsql\, a .Net data provider 
 for Postgresql written in 100% C# code. Npgsql allows programs written for 
 .Net Runtime to access postgresql database servers. It can be run on GNU/Li
 nux\, Windows\, MacOS and any other platform which has a .Net runtime avail
 able.
SUMMARY:Introducing Npgsql - A .Net Data Provider for Postgresql
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T160000
DTSTAMP:20080523T120000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
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BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/57.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080522T123000
UID:57@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:The Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP) is a storage system
  designed for the archival of digital data.  HCAP software runs on a cluste
 r of Linux nodes\, implementing a shared nothing architecture. File metadat
 a is kept in a set of Postgres databases\, one running on each node of the 
 cluster.
SUMMARY:Horizontal Scalability with PostgreSQL - Archival of digital data
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080522T113000
DTSTAMP:20080522T073000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:B
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BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/95.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T160000
UID:95@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:With the proliferation of web-based applications and increased 
 user technical ability\, distributed applications with multiple front-ends 
 becomes a viable\, if not essential approach to software construction and d
 eployment.  This talk will describe an approach to web-based databases\, sp
 ecifically a URL-2-SQL translator which converts common assumptions about h
 ow web resources should work into SQL queries for a PostgreSQL backend.   I
 nterestingly enough\, with a tool such as HTSQL together with the maturity 
 of database-level constraints and stored procedures\, the pendulum favoring
  3-tier solutions swings back to a 2-tier approach.
SUMMARY:HTSQL - a web-based front-end for PostgreSQL - An innovative URL-2-
 SQL translator for Web 2.0 applications.
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T150000
DTSTAMP:20080523T110000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:A
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/59.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080523T110000
UID:59@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:A way to realize similarity searches between objects as words\,
  sounds\, images\, etc.. using metric spaces.It is a way to do range querie
 s\, nearest neighboor queries and K-nearest neighboor queries.
SUMMARY:Approximate Search - Similarity searches in Postgresql using metric
  spaces
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080523T100000
DTSTAMP:20080523T060000
DURATION:PT1H00M
LOCATION:G
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SEQUENCE:0
URL:http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/104.en.html
DTEND;TZID=EDT:20080520T120000
UID:104@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org
CATEGORIES:Lecture
DESCRIPTION:PostgreSQL now has 187 GUCs\, most of which are server configur
 ation settings\, and begins to rival Oracle in complexity of administrator 
 options.  Take a high-speed tour of all of the options with core team membe
 r Josh Berkus.
SUMMARY:GUCs: A Three Hour Tour - Every option\, explained
DTSTART;TZID=EDT:20080520T090000
DTSTAMP:20080520T050000
DURATION:PT3H00M
LOCATION:Fauteux 147B
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TZID:EDT
TZNAME:America/Montreal
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