Weekly tweet digest for 2010-05-23

  • Oh hello, nasal congestion of doom. Could this be the tree's revenge? #
  • i want someone to make a "leave diaspora alone" video. #
  • And off we go: Change in the air http://bit.ly/a4tpGd #
  • CivicIdeas meetup May 27th – Join us! http://tinyurl.com/2bvh79r #
  • Plowed through a bunch of @osbridge email, have an awesome exciting sponsorship announcement for tomorrow, and almost packed for #pgcon #
  • off to #pgcon #
  • We're doing it again! PDXPUG Day at OSCON: http://pugs.postgresql.org/node/1630 (via @pdxpug) #
  • Will be arriving about 7 hours early to Ottawa! Looking forward to seeing everyone before the dev meeting! #standbyftw #pgcon #
  • Made it to Ottawa. Assuming I'll end up at the royal oak. #pgcon #
  • /me just shook Marc Fournier's hand. #pgcon #
  • all Gregs have arrived at the developer meeting. #pgcon #
  • Rousing approval for alpha release process! yay for @petereisentraut and others who worked on making this happen last year #pgcon #
  • CVS to GIT throwdown about to start. #pgcon #
  • OMG PostgreSQL is moving to git! august/september-ish! #pgcon #
  • listening to koichi-san talk about snapshot cloning #pgcon #
  • now talking about a generalized data queue inside of Postgres http://tinyurl.com/2b8st6k #pgcon #
  • ideas being floated for exposing transaction commit order to client applications (make it lookup-able by LSN?) #pgcon #
  • and now we're talking about DDL triggers with Jan Wieck #ftw #pgcon #
  • a status report on modules (except we call them extensions now) from Dimitri Fontaine #pgcon #
  • looks like Jan is going to pursue DDL trigger-ish functionality through existing code hooks. #sweet #pgcon #
  • hearing about SQL/MED and plans to move forward – making dblink extensible, COPY FROM and planner support (tweak of relkind) #pgcon #
  • Postgres yearly developer meeting! http://tinyurl.com/2a7ps6q #pgcon #
  • mongodb: "running with scissors by default" -@Crad #pgcon #
  • New config options 4 hot standby: wal_level – controls what gets logged in the write ahead log; max_wal_senders – match #of standbys #pgcon #
  • New config opts 4 hot standby: max_standby_delay – how long 2 wait before killing conflicting queries on standby #pgcon #
  • New config opts 4 hot standby: wal_keep_segments – number of wal segments to preserve before recycling during streaming rep #
  • excited to hear that @ahockley is organizing a photowalk during @osbridge. #
  • OH: "I've poked the system and threatened it with a rewrite in Haskell." #
  • listening to Greg Smith go over what the heck datums are in pg core code #pgcon #
  • Listening in on Cedric's explanation of pgfincore: http://pgfoundry.org/projects/pgfincore/ #
  • settling in to heckle @robertmhaas about the query planner #pgcon #
  • fun @enterprisedb party. great to meet karen, spend some time with @timbunce and generally make trouble. yay! #pgcon #
  • sitting in on #plparrot talk at #pgcon from @dukeleto and @davidfetter #
  • plparrot is driving the embedding interface/spec (parrot dev doc 10) #pgcon -@dukeleto #
  • Greg Smith *is* showing us a spreadsheet. #buffercache #stats #pgcon #
  • interesting project for #postgres research what different BM_MAX_USAGE_COUNT values might change buffer cache behavior #pgcon #
  • Have received photographic evidence of puppet theater at @pdxpug last night. #
  • Lightning talks from PgCon 2010 http://bit.ly/bekiyP #
  • Listening about Postgres-XC, taking notes here: http://etherpad.opensourcebridge.org/postgres-xc-koichi-suzuki-mason-sharp #pgcon #
  • Postgres-xc architecture http://flic.kr/p/83WDaU #
  • RT @dukeleto: PL/Perl is about 3x faster now (and actually safe!) that it does not use Safe.pm – @timbunce #pgcon #perl #
  • RT @Crad: Wow, complex.. more PostgreSQL-XC topology http://twitpic.com/1prynd #pgcon #
  • The last two chocolate chip cookies are being auctioned off for $21 to @timbunce #pgcon #
  • Seems like >$1200 was offered for a sweatshirt in honor of postgres 9.0 #pgcon #
  • In cash: $917, $300 from @crad, $300 from DeciBull, $1517 total for a sweatshirt. Cash going to the mission, remaining going to SPI #pgcon #
  • finally back to pack up after a wonderful #pgcon Thanks to @dlangille and all the Postgres hackers for another great conference. #