Is Linux.conf.au the event PostgreSQL should use for coverage in Australia next year?
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote: > Linux.conf.au Report > -------------------- > > The Linux.conf.au is an international Linux/Open Source event that attracts > lots of international speakers. Total conf attendance was around 360, maybe > even 400 I think. > > Gavin Sherry was speaking at this particular conf, and I attended as a > hobbyist. > > PostgreSQL got a reasonable amount of attention, particularly since there > were no representatives from other database products there. > > Some pics of our PostgreSQL BOF and the Perth Bell Tower: > http://www.zip.com.au/~swm/lca2003 > (Gavin is the beardy looking dude 3rd from the left :) I'm taking the > photo.) > > These are the main questions we where asked, or features that were > requested: > > * Replication, replication, replication! > > - We told them that there are a few solutions, none of them are particularly > great. Gavin got all sorts of ideas about log shipping. > > * IPV6 data types > > - Apparently there are some ISPs in some countries that have started to bill > people for IPV6 bandwidth, and the lack of IPV6 address types is hurting > them. > > * Collisions in auto-generated names. > > - The standard table modification tactic (that I also use) or renaming table > to *_old and creating new one breaks because the primary key of the new > table is assigned the same name as the PK of the old, causing CREATE TABLE > to fail. This is really annoying. I think that auto-generated names should > never collide. > > * Problem: person has large database with 4 or 5 humungous tables that they > aren't interested in backing up. However, they want to back up the rest. > > - I suggested that if pg_dump could dump individual schemas, then they could > move their 'don't backup' tables to another schema, and just dump the other > one. > > We found out all sorts of interesting places that PostgreSQL is being used: > a large Australian Telco, several restaurants in the Perth area, the Debian > inventory system and the Katie revision control system. It is also being > evaluated for process control analysis at a steel plant. Maybe we should > chase some people for case studies? > > Chris Kings-Lynne > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])