PGCon2012 - Final Release

PGCon 2012
The PostgreSQL Conference

Event Speakers

"Cheap, Fast AND Good" .... CHECK

A checklist for database replication shoppers.

Event type : Lecture
Track : Scaling Out
Language used for presentation : English

9.2: Full Throttle Database

New Feature Grand Prix

Event type : Lecture
Track : 9.2 Features
Language used for presentation : English

A Batch of Commit Batching

Event type : Lecture
Track : Scaling Out
Language used for presentation : English

Big Bad "Upgraded" PostgreSQL

Event type : Lecture
Track : Case Studies
Language used for presentation : English

Closing sessions

prizes, auctions, fun, games

Event type : Other
Track : Plenary
Language used for presentation : English

Database Ops

Easy and Effective Operation for production systems with PostgreSQL

Event type : Workshop
Track : DBA
Language used for presentation : English

Dear SQL Server, I'm filing for divorce.

Falling in love with the free spirit of Postgres

Event type : Lecture
Track : Case Studies
Language used for presentation : English

Finding Similar

Effective similarity search in database

Event type : Lecture
Track : Hacking
Language used for presentation : English

Getting Hot and Streamy with Postgres

Using Postgres' built in replication facilities

Event type : Workshop
Track : DBA
Language used for presentation : English

Hacker Lounge

meet, greet, code, slack

Event type : Other
Track : Social
Language used for presentation : English

Hacker Lounge

meet, greet, code, slack

Event type : Other
Track : Social
Language used for presentation : English

Hacker Lounge

meet, greet, code, slack

Event type : Other
Track : Social
Language used for presentation : English

Hooks in PostgreSQL

Event type : Lecture
Track : Advanced Features
Language used for presentation : English

Improving foreign key concurrency

To lock and not to block

Event type : Lecture
Track : 9.2 Features
Language used for presentation : English

Index support for regular expression search

Event type : Lecture
Track : Advanced Features
Language used for presentation : English

Keynote

Event type : Lecture
Track : Plenary
Language used for presentation : English

Large Scale MySQL Migration

to PostgreSQL!

Track : Case Studies
Language used for presentation : English

Lightning talks

Short sharp descriptions of short topics

Event type : Lightning-Talk
Track : Plenary
Language used for presentation : English

MADlib

An open source machine learning library on RDBMS for Big Data age

Event type : Lecture
Track : Applications
Language used for presentation : English

Major Social Event!

sponsored by EnterpriseDB

Event type : Other
Track : Social
Language used for presentation : English

Major Social Event!

sponsored by Heroku

Event type : Other
Track : Social
Language used for presentation : English

Making your own maps

An introduction in using free Geospatial data

Event type : Lecture
Track : GIS
Language used for presentation : English

Mastering PostgreSQL Administration

afternoon session

Event type : Workshop
Track : DBA
Language used for presentation : English

Mastering PostgreSQL Administration

Event type : Workshop
Track : DBA

Monitoring Ozone Levels with Postgresql

Database Streaming Replication and Monitoring

Event type : Lecture
Track : DBA
Language used for presentation : English

Moving Day: Migrating Big Data from A to B

Event type : Lecture
Track : Big Data
Language used for presentation : English

OLTP Performance Benchmarks Overview

Event type : Lecture
Track : Performance
Language used for presentation : English

On snakes and elephants

Using Python with and in PostgreSQL

Event type : Lecture
Track : Applications
Language used for presentation : English

PL/R Tricks

Server Monitoring with Predictive Analytics

Event type : Lecture
Track : Applications
Language used for presentation : English

Performance Improvements in PostgreSQL 9.2

Bigger servers, bigger problems

Event type : Lecture
Track : Hacking
Language used for presentation : English

PostgreSQL on AWS

EC2 with somewhat reduced tears

Event type : Lecture
Track : DBA
Language used for presentation : English

Range Types and Temporal: Past, Present, and Future

Track : 9.2 Features
Language used for presentation : English

Registration pickup

The social way to register: at the pub

Event type : Other
Track : Social
Language used for presentation : English

Running libraries on PostgreSQL

The Evergreen library system's (ab)use of PostgreSQL

Track : Case Studies
Language used for presentation : English

Schemaless SQL

The Best of Both Worlds

Event type : Lecture
Track : Advanced Features
Language used for presentation : English

Schemaverse

Learn more about the tournament format, available prizes, game mechanics or even simply discuss the idea

Event type : Contest
Track : DBA
Language used for presentation : English

Simple SQL Change Management with Sqitch

Event type : Lecture
Track : Hacking
Language used for presentation : English

The Horizontal Struggle

Improving the Experience of Scale-Out

Event type : Lecture
Track : Scaling Out
Language used for presentation : English

The PostgreSQL replication protocol, tools and opportunities

Event type : Lecture
Track : DBA
Language used for presentation : English

Tourist stuff

Spend some time exploring

Event type : Other
Track : Social
Language used for presentation : English

Tutorial - Configuring write-scalable PostgreSQL cluster

Postgres-XC primer and more

Event type : Other
Track : Scaling Out
Language used for presentation : English

Unlocking the Postgres Lock Manager

Event type : Lecture
Track : Advanced Features
Language used for presentation : English

Using PostgreSQL in modern enterprise web applications

Using HTML5, JavaScript, NodeJS with PostgreSQL

Event type : Lecture
Track : Applications
Language used for presentation : English

WAL Internals Of PostgreSQL

Event type : Lecture
Track : Hacking
Language used for presentation : English

Writing a foreign data wrapper

Experiences with Informix

Event type : Lecture
Track : Hacking
Language used for presentation : English