David Steele
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Principal author and maintainer of pgBackRest and coauthor and maintainer of pgAudit. Core contributions include group read access to PGDATA, removal of exclusive backup mode, non-exclusive backup API improvements, base backup exclusions for unlogged and temporary tables, prioritized archiving of timeline history files, fixes for torn pg_control and replaced files in base backups, recovery target validation and messages, and low-level backup documentation and tests. Regular reviewer of backup, recovery, archiving, and checksum patches, including incremental backup and page checksum verification in base backups. Commitfest manager for numerous commitfests. Google Summer of Code administrator and mentor. Regular speaker at PostgreSQL conferences since 2013, presenting on backup, recovery, and auditing.
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- Contributor Type
- Significant Contributors
- david at pgbackrest.org
- Location
- Nomadic
- Company
- pgBackRest