twittering on 2009-11-18

  • Having a sweet time in Tokyo with @magnushagander @pgsnake. Thanks to Hiroshi, Tado, Ishikawa for fugu dinner where I didn't die. Yet. #
  • @snaga no, tonight we are having a Japanese whiskey. in reply to snaga #
  • Having tea. Wondering who else is coming to the clustering summit from my hotel this morning. #pgcon09j #
  • in #postgres cluster developer meeting, listening to @fuzzychef talk about what we *should* be thinking about implementing #pgcon09j #
  • .@fuzzychef says: three main clustering use cases: transactional, analytic, online. #pgcon09j #
  • online is the use case that most matches the 'eventually consistent' model #pgcon09j #
  • follow what's happening in #pgcon09j: http://tr.im/Fg9C #
  • my notes from josh's presentation http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/ClusteringUseCases #pgcon09j #
  • now listening to what skype is up to with replication #pgcon09j #
  • skype working on SPLIT implementation in PL/Proxy (parallel exec of functions with partitioned data) and two-phase commit #pgcon09j #
  • skytools version three coming very soon #pgcon09j #
  • .@snaga actually, @turnstep (Greg Sabino Mullane) is the primary developer of #bucardo #
  • Postgres-2 hoping to open up the code by the end of 2009. and yes, please support APIs and hooks! #pgcon09j #
  • setting the afternoon agenda for the clustering summit discussion: community accessibility, improve user knowledge & access #pgcon09j #
  • @samv another giant leap forward for cross-continental trolling 😉 in reply to samv #
  • @robtreat2 that issue was raised by the skype team themselves.. just hasn't been a priority so far, they say. in reply to robtreat2 #