Schedule

The schedule (subject to minor adjustments) for the day is shown below. Abstracts and bios of the presenters will be added over the next few days.

08:30: Registration and coffee

09:30: Welcome : PostgreSQL in the UK - Simon Riggs, PostgreSQL Regional Contact, 2nd Quadrant

10:00: How the PostgreSQL Project works - Dave Page, PostgreSQL Core Team, EnterpriseDB

10:30: PostgreSQL at clara.net - Chris Fewtrell, Claranet

11:00: Coffee

11:30: Explaining EXPLAIN - Greg Stark, EnterpriseDB

12:15: PostgreSQL in the Datacenter - Detlef Ulherr, Sun UK

13:00: Lunch

13:45: Experience with full text search - Richard Huxton, Archonet

14:00: Integrating map data with PostGIS - Mark Cave-Ayland, PostGIS Developer, Sirius

14:30: PostgreSQL Performance Features in 8.3 - Simon Riggs, PostgreSQL Regional Contact, 2nd Quadrant

15:00: Integrated monitoring for PostgreSQL - Tim Retout, Credativ

15:30: Tea and meet the sponsors

16:00: Birds of a Feather sessions

17:00: PostgreSQL UK User Group meeting and wrap-up