Jayadevan Maymala - PostgreSQL for Data Architects

Jayadevan Maymala is a database developer, designer, and architect. He started working with the Oracle database in 1999. Over the years, he has worked with DB2, Sybase, and SQL Server. Of late, he has been working with open source technologies. His database of choice is PostgreSQL. In his career, he has worked in different domains spanning supply chain management, finance, and travel. He has spent an equal amount of time working with databases supporting critical transaction processing systems as well as data warehouses supporting analytical systems.

When he is not working on open source technologies, he spends time reading and updating himself on economic and political issues.

I would like to thank my wife, Uma, for putting up with my marathon writing sessions over weekends. I am also deeply indebted to the PostgreSQL community, which has individuals who are always promptly replying to my basic and not-so-basic queries. It's an amazing team that has been working tirelessly to build such a great database and then give it away for free with such liberal licensing terms. Thank you.

Pascal Charest is a cutting-edge technology professional working with a very wide array of open source technologies.

He is currently leading system administrators in strategic planning of networked infrastructures and is often consulted for system architecture design. He can be reached via his LinkedIn profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/pascalcharest.

I'd like to thank Anthony and Zachary for keeping me awake, day and night.

Bahman Movaqar has been developing, deploying, and delivering software for the past 14 years, ranging from embedded operating systems to ERP implementations. He's an open source believer and a passionate amateur chess player. He blogs at http://bahmanm.com/.

I'd like to thank my lovely wife, Nahid, who has taught me how to be strong.

ngelo Marcos Rigo has a strong background in web development since 1998, focusing on content management systems. For the past 7 years, he has been managing, customizing, and developing extensions for Moodle LMS. He can be reached at his website http://www.u4w.com.br/novosite/index.php for CMS or Moodle LMS consulting. He has reviewed Moodle Security , Packt Publishing .

I would like to thank my wife, Janaina de Souza, and my daughter, Lorena Rigo, for their support when I was away reviewing this book.

Hans-Jrgen Schnig has been involved in professional PostgreSQL training, consulting, and support for more than 15 years now. He and his company Cybertec Schnig & Schnig GmbH (http://www.cybertec.at/) are serving clients around the globe and have worked on some of the world's largest PostgreSQL deployments.

Stphane Wirtel is an enthusiast software craftsman who is interested in high availability, replication, and distributed systems. Since 2000, he has been using PostgreSQL with the Python programming language. Stephane gives talks on Python and PostgreSQL in several conferences in Europe. The last one was called Python & PostgreSQL, a Wonderful Wedding. He is also a former core developer of the Odoo project, having worked on it for 6 years.

Stphane is also a member of the Python Software Foundation and the EuroPython Society. He promotes the Python programming language via the PythonFOSDEM event at Brussels. You can reach him at http://wirtel.be/ or via Twitter @matrixise.

He works for Mgx.IO, a company that specializes in Python and Erlang developments. You can reach this company at http://mgx.io/ or via Twitter @mgxio. He has also reviewed the books Getting Started with PhantomJS and PhantomJS Cookbook, both by Packt Publishing.

I would like to thank my wife, Anne, my daughter, Margaux, my family and friends for their support, and the PostgreSQL and Python communities for the awesome tools.