The PG West 2010 PostgreSQL community conference will be taking place next week (November 2nd through 4th) in San Francisco. In anticipation of the event, we’ve put together a series of brief Q&As with PG West presenters to provide a taste of what attendees can expect. Our first QA with VMware engineer Jignesh Shah can be read here.
Jeff Davis, who works for Aster Data, has been involved in the PostgreSQL community since 2000 and has made two significant code contributions: Synchronized Scans in version 8.3, and Exclusion Constraints in 9.0. At PG West 2010, Jeff will be providing an Introduction to Temporal Data Management. A brief QA with Jeff is below….
Q: What can attendees expect learn about PostgreSQL from your preso at PG West?
Davis: Basic business problems like schedule conflicts are nearly impossible to solve effectively in any general-purpose SQL DBMS — except Postgres 9. I’ll show how temporal features in Postgres (and extensions) can help solve a variety of such problems, and why this is important.
And more temporal features are on their way. This is a great opportunity for participants to discuss their temporal data use cases with developers and influence the development of these new features.
Q: What benefits do you see from PostgreSQL?
Davis:
* Community of talented, experienced people from many backgrounds, all driven by excellence. The help available from this community for anything related to data management cannot be overstated.
* Permissive source code license.
* Reliable, robust, predictable database management system.
* Feature-rich and flexible.
Q: What are you hoping to get out of your time at PG West?
Davis: Last year, PG West 2009 was a huge help to the project I was finishing for 9.0 and other projects that I was still designing for 9.1. Users, potential users, and developers had some great use cases, ideas, and insights. I am confident PG West 2010 will be just as successful at advancing new features and knowledge of existing features. Not just the features that I am interested in, but all of the features on the horizon.
For more information about the PG West 2010 conference, visit http://www.postgresqlconference.org/. The cost per attendee is $150. To register, visit https://www.postgresqlconference.org/content/pgwest-2010-registration.
Q&A with PG West Presenter Jeff Davis about PostgreSQL and Managing Temporal Data
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