Re: January meeting next week!

Reminder about tonight's meeting at Iovation:

https://twitter.com/sternocera/status/423879065192263681

Please prepare accordingly. :)

On Thu, Jan 9, 2014 at 4:05 PM, gabrielle <gorthx(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> When: 7-9pm Thu Jan 16, 2014
> Where: Iovation
> Who: Peter Geoghegan
> What: "Something UPSERT-y"
>
> Peter Geoghegan, currently an engineer at Heroku, has made a number of
> notable contributions to PostgreSQL:
> - Modifying pgstatstatements, the contrib module that logs frequently
> executed queries, to support the normalization of non-prepared queries.
> - Contributing a performance optimization to PostgreSQL 9.2, with which
> the sorting of scalar types like integers has been considerably sped-up.
> This has been observed to result in an over 30% performance improvement in
> execution time for some simple queries with ORDER BY clauses, an
> improvement that holds up well as the size of the underlying table grows.
> - Introducing a series of changes to PostgreSQL to improve its power
> consumption when idle, by eliminating the busy-waiting that previously
> prevented CPUs from entering idle states.
>
> Peter's going to talk about his work on UPSERT and logical replication.
>
> --
>
> Our meeting will be held at Iovation, on the 32nd floor of the US Bancorp
> Tower at 111 SW 5th (5th & Oak). It's right on the Green & Yellow Max
> lines. Underground bike parking is available in the parking garage;
> outdoors all around the block in the usual spots. No bikes in the office,
> sorry!
>
> Building security will close access to the floor at 7:30.
>
> See you there!
>