[ANNOUNCE] PostgreSQL Portland Performance Practice Project (P5)

Here's a copy of the flyer produced by Portland State University:

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PostgreSQL Portland Performance Practice Project (P5)

A series of presentations
by
Mark Wong

This series will consist of 5 to 6 presentations aimed at PostgreSQL
database users who wish to learn more about tuning their systems for
performance. Attendees will learn how to generate and interpret
operating system (Linux) and database statistics, and the effects of
some system tuning techniques. This involves studying the well known
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) benchmark called TPC-C ( www.tpc.org
). TPC-C was developed by a committee, representing all major
players in the database marketplace, to be representative of typical
online enterprise databases. TPC-C consists of a precisely defined
schema and 19 queries. We will review the schema and queries and
demonstrate how each tuning technique affects their performance. We
will use an open source package that the speaker has developed, called
DBT-2, which many DBAs have found useful.

Mark Wong has an MS in Computer Science from OGI and several years of
experience developing and executing various database systems
benchmarks. Most relevant to this series are his years spent at the
OSDL developing and using a fair-use derivative of the TPC-C benchmark
to characterize system performance of open source software. He now
works at HP StorageWorks on their NAS products.

2nd THURSDAY OF EACH MONTH, BEGINNING JANUARY 8, 7:00 PM
PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY, 1900 SW 4th AVENUE,
FOURTH AVENUE BUILDING – ROOM 86-01