[PLUG] ANOUNCEMENT: Advanced Topics Meeting April 16th, 2008

[Alan]

PLUG Advanced Topics Meeting
April 16th, 2008  7-9pm

Jax Bar
826 SW 2nd Avenue
Portland, Oregon

Speaker:  Selena Deckelmann <selenamarie at gmail.com>

Topic: PostgreSQL monitoring

Ever wanted a command-line tool for monitoring PostgreSQL? ptop is the
answer! Derived from the UNIX utility top, ptop automates some of the
most common troubleshooting queries. This talk will provide an
introduction to PostgreSQL monitoring, supported features in ptop, and
plans for future development.

Features include:

    * List of currently running queries
    * Viewing query plans
    * Viewing locks
    * View current user table and index statistics
    * Deltas on statistics at configurable intervals

Development is active, and the tool is currently supported on *BSD and
Linux, with a Mac OS X port on the way.

The project's home page is at:
http://pgfoundry.org/projects/ptop
Biography:

Selena Deckelmann bikes herself to work everyday at Chris King
Precision Components, a bicycle parts manufacturer in Portland, OR,
where she is Information Systems Manager. She is User Group Liaison
for the PostgreSQL Global Development Group. She currently leads
PDXPUG - http://pugs.postgresql.org/pdx, a PostgreSQL Users Group, and
is helping start a programming group, Code-n-Splode -
http://pdx.codensplode.org, whose goal is to get more women involved
in open source. In her spare time, she collects eggs from her
chickens, gardens and occasionally mixes drinks for her local Perl
Mongers group.