Simon Riggs

PostgreSQL in the UK

The PostgreSQL developers are constantly surprised to hear about new and interesting ways that their code is put to use throughout the world, and the UK is no exception. In this talk PostgreSQL use and growth within the UK over the last few years will be discussed.

PostgreSQL Performance Features in 8.3

In his second talk Simon describes each of the new performance features in 8.3, and some viewpoints on performance in the next release. One of the most popular talks at the recent FOSDEM conference in February.

Bio

Simon is a respected PostgreSQL developer focussing on enterprise features, and the project's regional contact for the UK. He is the author of numerous features in the database server including Point In Time Recovery, partitioning and Asynchronous Commit.

Simon runs a successful PostgreSQL consultancy business 2nd Quadrant near Oxford.

Photo by Michael Glaesman