Federico Campoli

The talk tells the untold story of how we started with the idea of having a barbecue and we ended in organising the first PostgreSQL conference in Europe.

Nowadays there is a PGDay or a PostgreSQL conference almost every month all around the world. But back in 2007 there were only two or three conferences in the Americas and in Japan. The talk will tell the story of the PGDay 2007, how it started and how the initial idea of having a conference between friends to advocate PostgreSQL evolved into the first PostgreSQL in Europe.

Federico Campoli, who had the original Idea and was actively involved in organising the conference will walk the audience through the adventure of organising the PGDay 2007 from scratch and how this sparked the birth of PostgreSQL Europe.

Reading the manual before starting a new work is always a good practice.

However some situations like pressure for delivery or lack of attention may lead to wrong assumptions that cause unpredictable results or even disasters.

The talk, in a semi serious way, will walk the audience through some of corner cases caused by the lack of the good practice of RTFM.

repcloud is a tool for repacking postgresql databases in cloud written in python3.

repcloud is a tool for repacking postgresql databases hosted in cloud. as pgrepack is a far better approach for repacking tables online, there are situations where is not possible to install the extension on a postgresql if it's hosted in cloud (e.g. Heroku). Hence comes repcloud which can help in rebuilding the tables on line with the use of simple SQL and some postgreSQL magic. The author will explain how the project started, the functionalities and the limitations.