Meetings:2006-10

From GTALUG

Date

Tuesday October 10, 2006

Time

7:30 pm

Topic

PostgreSQL 8.1 and Beyond (8 2 Brute?)

Speaker

Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@gmail.com> or <cbbrowne@ca.afilias.info>

Description

This presentation will cover interesting things added to version 8.1 of PostgreSQL (released November 2005) as well as some of what is expected for 8.2 (due this fall). This was recently presented at Ohio LinuxFest.

Speaker Bio

Christopher Browne is a database administrator with Afilias Canada in their Operations / Data Services group. He has been involved with various registry data conversions, as well as the operations of Afilias registry databases and replication systems. Past involvements include SAP R/3 data conversions and systems development. In the open source community, Browne has been involved with development of financial applications including cbb, GnuCash, and SQL-Ledger, and most recently the Slony-I replication system for PostgreSQL. Browne holds a Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo as well as a Master of Science degree in Systems Science from the University of Ottawa.

Location

   Room GB244, Galbraith Building, University of Toronto
   Toronto, Ontario M5S 3G8 
   University of Toronto 

Map

http://oracle.osm.utoronto.ca/map/ http://maps.google.ca/maps?q=35+St+George+St,+Toronto,+ON&hl=en

Speaker Requirements

The speaker will be bringing the needed projector...