March meeting

From: Gavin Sherry <swm(at)alcove(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Chris Velevitch <chris(dot)velevitch(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: sydpug(at)postgresql(dot)org, announce(at)slug(dot)org(dot)au
Subject: March meeting
Date: 2005-02-24 02:07:10
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.58.0502241305570.15341@linuxworld.com.au
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Hi all,

We are back to our usual location for the March meeting of the PostgreSQL
Users Group.

Meet us at the James Squire Brew House at King St Wharf from 18:30
onwards on the 1st of March.

Anand Kumria will be giving a presentation on best practice in schema
design. He will take the schema from an existing OSS project which uses
MySQL, rewrite the schema for PostgreSQL and make use of the schema
normalisation and referential integrity mechanisms which should all be
using in our projects.

Neil Conway will be giving a the buffer management strategy in 8.0 which
was recently discovered to be covered in a pending patent filed by IBM.
The presentation will cover:
- a review of buffer management in a DBMS, and a summary of the ARC
algorithm
- the discovery of the patent and how we decided to deal with it
- lessons learned (i.e. the latter being what other OSS contributors can
take away WRT dealing with patents)

See you there.

Gavin

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