I think so - Gavin? As far as I'm aware there's not really anything else on the open source circuit. There is often a MySQL rep there as well apparently.
Chris On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > 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])
