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  <uid>116@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>116</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>yahoo</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Yahoo! drinks+food</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Join us for drinks, food, Yahoos, and Nintendo Wii. Let the games begin!</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080521T183000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080521T233000</dtend>
  <duration>05H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Yahoo! drinks+food- Join us for drinks, food, Yahoos, and Nintendo Wii. Let the games begin!</summary>
  <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, Ontario

Party on with Yahoo! and get your chance to win a FREE Wii!
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/116.en.html</url>
  <location>Urban Well</location>
  <attendee>Dan Langille</attendee>
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<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>105@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>105</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>hot</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>HOT Inside</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>The Technical Architecture</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T163000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T173000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>HOT Inside- The Technical Architecture</summary>
  <description>This session will cover the technical architecture of HOT (Heap-Only-Tuples), a key feature of PostgreSQL 8.3.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/105.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Pavan Deolasee</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>106@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>106</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>pgpool2</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>pgPool2 Demonstrated</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle></pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T163000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T173000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>pgPool2 Demonstrated</summary>
  <description>Tatsuo Ishii will show and explain how to use pgPool2, current project status, and planned features.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/106.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Tatsuo Ishii</attendee>
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<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>114@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>114</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>dinner</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>EnterpriseDB Dinner</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>PGCon Dinner</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T190000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T000000</dtend>
  <duration>05H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>EnterpriseDB Dinner- PGCon Dinner</summary>
  <description>EnterpriseDB would like to invite the pgCon 2008 attendees to join
them for an evening of food, drink and entertainment at the Velvet
Room on the evening of the 22nd May.
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/114.en.html</url>
  <location>Velvet Glove</location>
  <attendee>Dan Langille</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>107@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>107</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>listen</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Listen/Notify</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>How they work, and how they don't</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T113000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T123000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Listen/Notify- How they work, and how they don't</summary>
  <description>A description of how notifications currently work. LISTEN and NOTIFY commands.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/107.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Andrew Dunstan</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>108@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>108</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>nasa</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>NASA</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Satellite Science Data Processing with PostgreSQL</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T150000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T160000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>NASA- Satellite Science Data Processing with PostgreSQL</summary>
  <description>Over the last several decades, NASA has been one of the major
collectors of Earth climate observations from space.  The quantity of
data from satellites has been exploding with the current generation
producing hundreds of terrabytes of science data products each year.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/108.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Curt Tilmes</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>115@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>115</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>fripub</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Pub Night!</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Last chance for social intercourse before the Touristy stuff tomorrow</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T180000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T230000</dtend>
  <duration>05H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Pub Night!- Last chance for social intercourse before the Touristy stuff tomorrow</summary>
  <description>The last big social event...</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/115.en.html</url>
  <location>Royal Oak Pub</location>
  <attendee>Dan Langille</attendee>
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<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>79@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>79</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>pqg</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>PgQ - generic high-performance queue for PostgreSQL</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>how it is implemented, various uses</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T150000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T160000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>PgQ - generic high-performance queue for PostgreSQL- how it is implemented, various uses</summary>
  <description>Queues in database are rarely used, because thus far is has been impossible to implement
both robust and high-performance queue in general-purpose RDBMS.

In PgQ we managed to solve this by generalizing snapshot-based event tracking first introduced with rserv, now used in Slony-I.

This presentation will describe the implementation and also
real-life use cases.
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/79.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Marko Kreen</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>72@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>72</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>feedback</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Problems with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems with Multi-Terabyte Data</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Using customer feedback and benchmarks to reduce performance and productivity loss</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T150000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T160000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Problems with PostgreSQL on Multi-core Systems with Multi-Terabyte Data- Using customer feedback and benchmarks to reduce performance and productivity loss</summary>
  <description>As multi-core systems and storage space become cheaper, PostgreSQL is increasingly hard pressed to scale to the size of servers available to most users.  Sun's performance engineers use customer feedback and industry standard benchmarks like TPC-E and SpecJAppserver to examine what causes these issues and what to do about them.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/72.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Jignesh K. Shah</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>64@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>64</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>pgrelease</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>PostgreSQL Project and Release Management</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>What Makes the Project Work</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T133000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T143000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>PostgreSQL Project and Release Management- What Makes the Project Work</summary>
  <description>Core team member Peter Eisentraut gives a partially behind-the-scenes look at the processes that make the PostgreSQL project work.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/64.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Peter Eisentraut</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>75@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>75</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>search</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>search.postgresql.org</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Using full text search for websites and mailing lists</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T163000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T173000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>search.postgresql.org- Using full text search for websites and mailing lists</summary>
  <description>search.postgresql.org uses PostgreSQL Full Text Indexing to search mailinglists and websites. This talk will outline how it was built and deployed.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/75.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Magnus Hagander</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>85@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>85</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>projectman</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Some idle thoughts on PostgreSQL project management</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Why there is no traffic on replica-hooks-discuss</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T100000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T110000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Some idle thoughts on PostgreSQL project management- Why there is no traffic on replica-hooks-discuss</summary>
  <description>This is a talk about PostgreSQL feature development as observed over the past 7 years.  Some features have been developed carefully, others 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 community might organise some future large feature development.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/85.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Andrew Sullivan</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>101@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>101</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>postgis</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>PostGIS</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>A Standards Based Geographic Extension for PostgreSQL </pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T100000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T110000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>PostGIS- A Standards Based Geographic Extension for PostgreSQL </summary>
  <description>A introduction is provided to PostGIS, a PostgreSQL extension for managing
geographic feature (vector) data.  </description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/101.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Frank Warmerdam</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>78@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>78</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>plproxy</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>plProxy, pgBouncer, pgBalancer</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Paritioning databases and using remote calls</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T133000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T143000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>plProxy, pgBouncer, pgBalancer- Paritioning databases and using remote calls</summary>
  <description>There are several ways how plProxy can be useful in case of large 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. </description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/78.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Asko Oja</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>113@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>113</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>drugs</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>This is your PostgreSQL on drugs</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Secure enough for law enforcement</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T133000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T143000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>This is your PostgreSQL on drugs- Secure enough for law enforcement</summary>
  <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 creative solutions that have been deployed to help facilitate how we put PostgreSQL to the task of drugs.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/113.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Aaron Thul</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>60@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>60</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>lightning</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>PostgreSQL Lightning Talks</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Everyone gets 5 minutes of Fame!</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T173000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T183000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>PostgreSQL Lightning Talks- Everyone gets 5 minutes of Fame!</summary>
  <description>The always enlightening, sometimes frightening, collection of talks from around the PostgreSQL community.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/60.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Robert Treat</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>84@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>84</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>accel</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Multi threaded query accelerator</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>A case study</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T173000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T183000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Multi threaded query accelerator- A case study</summary>
  <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 organize 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 lightweight multi-threaded application which works as a middleware for faster query execution (up to 13 times). More emphasis is given on the multi-threaded application which executes queries spanning across multiple tables faster than only one single-threaded Postgres process. 
	Approximately 90GB of data is going to be supported by this implementation with queries spanning across entire data.
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/84.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Durgaprasad S. Pawar</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>76@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>76</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>sync</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Synchronous Log Shipping Replication</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>High availability solution to minimize downtime</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T150000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T160000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Synchronous Log Shipping Replication- High availability solution to minimize downtime</summary>
  <description>NTT has developed a shared-nothing replication system for PostgreSQL implemented with transaction log shipping and Heartbeat. The goal is minimizing the system downtime and the impact for update performance. Failover can be done within 15 seconds and the overhead is at worst 7% on heavily-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 development.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/76.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>ITAGAKI Takahiro</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>93@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>93</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>bucardo</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Bucardo</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>The open source multi-master replication system</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T160000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T170000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Bucardo- The open source multi-master replication system</summary>
  <description>Learn the strengths and weaknesses of Bucardo, an asynchronous multi-master replication system, and see a demo
of it in action.
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/93.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Greg Sabino Mullane</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>98@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>98</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>opening</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Opening Session</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Welcome back to PGCon and the Path to the Future</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T090000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T100000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Opening Session- Welcome back to PGCon and the Path to the Future</summary>
  <description>After a greeting by Dan, Bruce will consider possible future directions for the PostgreSQL software and the project.  
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/98.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Bruce Momjian</attendee>
  <attendee>Dan Langille</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>99@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>99</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>closing</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Closing Session</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Good bye and thanks for all the fish</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T170000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T180000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Closing Session- Good bye and thanks for all the fish</summary>
  <description>Closing Session</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/99.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Dan Langille</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>90@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>90</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>performance</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Researching PostgreSQL Performance</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Results from different OS and FS</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T150000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T160000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Researching PostgreSQL Performance- Results from different OS and FS</summary>
  <description>In this talk, we will present a detailed analysis of the scenarios tested (different loads and number of users). Furthermore, measurements reflecting improvements in the newer PostgreSQL version will be summarized.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/90.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Fernando Ike</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>83@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>83</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>logic</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Logic and Databases</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Answering complex questions &amp; migrating data</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T113000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T123000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Logic and Databases- Answering complex questions &amp; migrating data</summary>
  <description>This talk focuses on two common data management tasks, and how the relational model can help. First, how to answer complex questions about your data, and provide an answer that can be understood by non-IT people unambiguously. Second, how to effectively extract meaning from disorganized (or under-documented) data sets for effective data migration or reporting.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/83.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Jeff Davis</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>110@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>110</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>irods</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>iRODS - A Large-Scale Rule-Orientated Data Management System</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>RDBMS-based Data Grid, Persistent Archive, Digital Library</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T113000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T123000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>iRODS - A Large-Scale Rule-Orientated Data Management System- RDBMS-based Data Grid, Persistent Archive, Digital Library</summary>
  <description>The integrated Rule Oriented Data management System (iRODS), is an
open source software system that implements data grids, persistent
archives, and digital libraries.  iRODS incorporates an RDBMS for
storing and querying persistent information and a distributed Rule Engine to
invoke micro-service workflows.  This session will present an overview
of iRODS, how it makes use of PostgreSQL, and a comparison of
PostgreSQL and Oracle iRODS instances.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/110.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Wayne Schroeder</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>88@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>88</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>dbilink</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>DBI-Link 3.0</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Federating Heterogeneous Data Stores - Using speadsheets and cvs files with databases</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T100000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T110000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>DBI-Link 3.0- Federating Heterogeneous Data Stores - Using speadsheets and cvs files with databases</summary>
  <description>Have you ever needed to get data from a spreadsheet and put it in a
database?  Have you ever wanted to do real queries on a CSV file?
DBI-Link 3.0 makes these operations easy.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/88.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>David Fetter</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>67@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>67</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>java</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>PostgreSQL: From a Java Enterprise Point of View</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Manipulating complex data models using component or object oriented methods</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T100000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T110000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>PostgreSQL: From a Java Enterprise Point of View- Manipulating complex data models using component or object oriented methods</summary>
  <description>The Java Enterprise Edition specification defines APIs that allow developers to manipulate complex
data models using component or object oriented methods.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/67.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Jesper Pedersen</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>97@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>97</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>patterns</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Database Anti-Patterns</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Everyone else is doing it wrong, why can't we?</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080521T130000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080521T160000</dtend>
  <duration>03H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Database Anti-Patterns- Everyone else is doing it wrong, why can't we?</summary>
  <description>Many common solutions used in the world of database design go beyond 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 solutions to use in their place. </description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/97.en.html</url>
  <location>Fauteux 147B</location>
  <attendee>Robert Treat</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>111@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>111</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>mysql</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>What PostgreSQL could learn from MySQL</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>The learning continues</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T133000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T143000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>What PostgreSQL could learn from MySQL- The learning continues</summary>
  <description>While PostgreSQL was busy becoming the most advanced open source database, MySQL became the most popular.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/111.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Susanne Ebrecht</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>86@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>86</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>xbase</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Xbase++ meets PostgreSQL</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Migration of existing Xbase++, Clipper, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro or dBase applications to PostgreSQL</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T133000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T143000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Xbase++ meets PostgreSQL- Migration of existing Xbase++, Clipper, FoxPro, Visual FoxPro or dBase applications to PostgreSQL</summary>
  <description>An introduction into the Xbase++ language and how it supports the PostgreSQL server. This lecture is intended for programmers which have Xbase++, Clipper, FoxPro Visual FoxPro or dbase applications in the field.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/86.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Steffen F. Pirsig</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>62@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>62</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>oracle</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Porting Oracle Applications to PostgreSQL</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle></pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080520T130000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080520T160000</dtend>
  <duration>03H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Porting Oracle Applications to PostgreSQL</summary>
  <description>Learn about the issues surrounding porting database applications to PostgreSQL.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/62.en.html</url>
  <location>Fauteux 147B</location>
  <attendee>Peter Eisentraut</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>69@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>69</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>views</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Materialized Views that Really Work</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>How to simply leverage view materialization for even the most complex cases</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080521T090000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080521T120000</dtend>
  <duration>03H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Materialized Views that Really Work- How to simply leverage view materialization for even the most complex cases</summary>
  <description>Gain huge performance boosts for your applications with Materialized Views.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/69.en.html</url>
  <location>Fauteux 147B</location>
  <attendee>Dan Chak</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>103@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>103</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>tourist</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Tourist Time</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>See the sights in and/or around Ottawa</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080524T093000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080524T143000</dtend>
  <duration>05H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Tourist Time- See the sights in and/or around Ottawa</summary>
  <description>Play Tourist</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/103.en.html</url>
  <location>Out and about</location>
  <attendee>Dan Langille</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>102@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>102</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>registration</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Registration pickup</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>The social way to register: at the pub</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080521T150000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080521T200000</dtend>
  <duration>05H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Registration pickup- The social way to register: at the pub</summary>
  <description>Pick up your registration pack</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/102.en.html</url>
  <location>Royal Oak Pub</location>
  <attendee>Dan Langille</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>87@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>87</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>upgrade</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>PostgreSQL upgrade project</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Upgrade on-the-fly or with minimal down time.  </pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T160000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T170000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>PostgreSQL upgrade project- Upgrade on-the-fly or with minimal down time.  </summary>
  <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 allow to upgrade database on-fly or with minimal down time. 
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/87.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Zden&#283;k Kotala</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>77@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>77</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>sepostgresql</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Security-Enhanced PostgreSQL</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>"System-wide consistency" in access control</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T113000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T123000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Security-Enhanced PostgreSQL- "System-wide consistency" in access control</summary>
  <description>SE-PostgreSQL is a security extension built-in PostgreSQL, collaborating 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 control
scheme integrated with operating system. It helps protect our information asset from some of threats like leaking, defacting and destruction.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/77.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>KaiGai Kohei</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>58@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>58</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>inverted</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Improvement of Generalized Inverted Index</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Multicolumn index support and speedup of index update</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T113000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T123000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Improvement of Generalized Inverted Index- Multicolumn index support and speedup of index update</summary>
  <description>We present new multicolumn feature support of the Generalized Inverted Index (GIN)  and  intermediate results of our research on
fast online GIN update.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/58.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Oleg Bartunov</attendee>
  <attendee>Teodor Sigaev</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>96@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>96</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>dracones</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Dracones</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>A PostgreSQL/MapServer WebGIS application for Public Health Surveillance</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T133000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T143000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Dracones- A PostgreSQL/MapServer WebGIS application for Public Health Surveillance</summary>
  <description>We make extensive use of PostgreSQL and its spatial extension PostGIS.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/96.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Christian Jauvin</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>74@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>74</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>windows</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Deploying PostgreSQL in a Windows Enterprise</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Integrating with Windows and Active Directory</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T100000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T110000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Deploying PostgreSQL in a Windows Enterprise- Integrating with Windows and Active Directory</summary>
  <description>Many larger networks are based around Windows and Active Directory. This
talk will show how PostgreSQL can integrate and work with such existing
environments.
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/74.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Magnus Hagander</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>66@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>66</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>npgsql</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Introducing Npgsql</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>A .Net Data Provider for Postgresql</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T160000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T170000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Introducing Npgsql- A .Net Data Provider for Postgresql</summary>
  <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/Linux, Windows, MacOS and any other platform which has a .Net runtime available.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/66.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Hiroshi Saito</attendee>
  <attendee>Francisco Figueiredo Jr.</attendee>
  <attendee>Josh Cooley</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>57@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>57</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>archives</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Horizontal Scalability with PostgreSQL</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Archival of digital data</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080522T113000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080522T123000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Horizontal Scalability with PostgreSQL- Archival of digital data</summary>
  <description>The Hitachi Content Archive Platform (HCAP) is a storage system designed for the archival of digital data.  HCAP software runs on a cluster of Linux nodes, implementing a shared nothing architecture. File metadata is kept in a set of Postgres databases, one running on each node of the cluster.
</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/57.en.html</url>
  <location>B</location>
  <attendee>Jack Orenstein</attendee>
</vevent>
<vevent>
  <method>PUBLISH</method>
  <uid>95@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>95</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>htsql</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>HTSQL - a web-based front-end for PostgreSQL</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>An innovative URL-2-SQL translator for Web 2.0 applications.</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T150000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T160000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>HTSQL - a web-based front-end for PostgreSQL- An innovative URL-2-SQL translator for Web 2.0 applications.</summary>
  <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 deployment.  This talk will describe an approach to web-based databases, specifically a URL-2-SQL translator which converts common assumptions about how web resources should work into SQL queries for a PostgreSQL backend.   Interestingly 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.</description>
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  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/95.en.html</url>
  <location>A</location>
  <attendee>Clark Evans</attendee>
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  <uid>59@PGCon2008@pentabarf.org</uid>
  <pentabarf:event-id>59</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>searches</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>Approximate Search</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Similarity searches in Postgresql using metric spaces</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080523T100000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080523T110000</dtend>
  <duration>01H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>Approximate Search- Similarity searches in Postgresql using metric spaces</summary>
  <description>A way to realize similarity searches between objects as words, sounds, images, etc.. using metric spaces.
It is a way to do range queries, nearest neighboor queries and K-nearest neighboor queries.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/59.en.html</url>
  <location>G</location>
  <attendee>Enrico Pirozzi</attendee>
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  <pentabarf:event-id>104</pentabarf:event-id>
  <pentabarf:event-tag>guc_tour</pentabarf:event-tag>
  <pentabarf:title>GUCs: A Three Hour Tour</pentabarf:title>
  <pentabarf:subtitle>Every option, explained</pentabarf:subtitle>
  <pentabarf:language>English</pentabarf:language>
  <pentabarf:language-code>en</pentabarf:language-code>
  <dtstart>20080520T090000</dtstart>
  <dtend>20080520T120000</dtend>
  <duration>03H00M00S</duration>
  <summary>GUCs: A Three Hour Tour- Every option, explained</summary>
  <description>PostgreSQL now has 187 GUCs, most of which are server configuration settings, and begins to rival Oracle in complexity of administrator options.  Take a high-speed tour of all of the options with core team member Josh Berkus.</description>
  <class>PUBLIC</class>
  <status>CONFIRMED</status>
  <category>Lecture</category>
  <url>http://www.pgcon.org/2008/schedule/events/104.en.html</url>
  <location>Fauteux 147B</location>
  <attendee>Josh Berkus</attendee>
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