Thom Brown

Engineering Project Manager, EDB

As the Engineering Project Manager, Thom coordinates and schedules the project work of the engineering team, manages any escalated issues related to community PostgreSQL and the EDB Postgres™ Advanced Server, and liaises with the support, release, test, and change management teams. His activities in the PostgreSQL community include responding to user questions relating to feature use, configuration and performance, testing new feature patches, and providing input to development discussions.

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Horizontal Scalability in PostgreSQL 9.6

PostgreSQL 9.6 is shaping up to be an impressive release, so I thought I'd try to summarise some of the big features and improvements that it will bring. This certainly won't be exhaustive, but it will touch upon areas I've looked at closely.

The Big Book of PostgreSQL

Documentation is crucial to the success of any software program, particularly open source software (OSS), where new features and functionality are added by many contributors. Like any OSS, PostgreSQL needs to produce accurate, consistent and reliable documentation to guide contributors’ work and reflect the functionality of every new contribution. Documentation also an important source of...