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
