Hi all, We are back to our usual location for the March meeting of the PostgreSQL Users Group.
Meet us at the James Squire Brew House[1] at King St Wharf from 18:30 onwards on the 1st of March. Anand Kumria will be giving a presentation on best practice in schema design. He will take the schema from an existing OSS project which uses MySQL, rewrite the schema for PostgreSQL and make use of the schema normalisation and referential integrity mechanisms which should all be using in our projects. Neil Conway will be giving a the buffer management strategy in 8.0 which was recently discovered to be covered in a pending patent filed by IBM. The presentation will cover: - a review of buffer management in a DBMS, and a summary of the ARC algorithm - the discovery of the patent and how we decided to deal with it - lessons learned (i.e. the latter being what other OSS contributors can take away WRT dealing with patents) See you there. Gavin [1]http://www.malt-shovel.com.au/brewhouse.asp?Sydney=true -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
