PlanetPostgreSQL

Last october 26 I was invited to present PostgreSQL internals seminary during the Hacklab event organized by the Firenze Linux User Group (FLUG) at creativity festival in Florence.

My talk was scheduled at 5.00 p.m. but the previous conference delayed and freed the room only at 5.40 p.m.

I was angry.

My audience asked me when I would start the talk.

I asked the same question to the FLUG guys was no one could answer me.

When the room was freed I entered the room to start the conference but the staff guy told me that the room was scheduled to another conference and the PostgreSQL Internals was not listed.

I was really upset.

The Hacklab organizers simply forget to communicate the schedule to the logistics guys.

That was very disrespectful for the people that comet to the creativity festival, that was totally unorganized and without any notice about the talks and the places where those talks was scheduled, only to be present at my conference.

Thanks to the lici guys my conference was placed (after one hour delay) in a smaller room with a HD big screen but when I powered on the screen I discovered that the organizers forgot to buy the batteries for the remote control and the CENSORED big HD screen was useless without remote control.

I solved turning my notebook to the audience and trying to talk at my best.

After this disappointing experience I made the decision that I'll not give any talk to FLUG ever.

They acted like me and my audience was not present.

This is not endurable.

Saturday october 20  I presented a workshop called PostgreSQL Internals seminary at italian fair called SMAU.

I was very happy when I saw the room fulfilled of interested people.

I talked about PostgreSQL internals dynamics for 35 minutes (yes, I talk very fast) starting from storage tecniques and going into the buffer manager evolution from 7.4 to 8.2.

After doing this I talked shortly about the Italian PostgreSQL User Group.

The question time was really interesting with good questions about replication, HA and warm standby configuration.

I was totally satisfied about this talk because people are more interested than ever on PostgreSQL.

Gabriele just published a small page on the ITPUG website.

The page is a smal news about the progress in the legal status of the Italian PostgreSQL User Group.

We are almost ready to start.

For now you can find out some breadcrumb on this url http://www.itpug.org/

The PostgreSQL promotional flyer in italian language, that we've done with PGDay funds is free for download on the itpug website.

Feel free to take and share it

Wednesday 26 september me and a reporter  meet  Josh Berkus that was in Milano for SUN's java tech days.

After sightseeing Milano with Josh we had a lunch in "pizza pazza" tipical restaurant and Josh gave us an Interview

You can find the interview (in italian language) at url http://www.bricoliamo.com/11/42/462/

I'll attend a seminary about PostgreSQL internal dynamics at SMAU Italian fair in Milano Italy october 20 2007.

The talk will be about 50 minutes in italian speaking of course.

I'll discuss how PostgreSQL 8.2 works internally, the storage structure, the buffer manager evolution from 7.4 to 8.2, how PostgreSQL process queries and how cost based optimizer works.

For further details and bookings you can click here

http://www.webb.it/event/eventview/5922/1/330,330/postgresql_internals