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The first PostgreSQL Conference Europe talks!

The first round of PostgreSQL Conference Europe talks have now been selected and already it's shaping up to be a great conference if these are any to go by. You can see the list so far at http://www.postgresql.eu/events/sessions/pgconfeu2011/ . If we take a brief look at a few of the talks, you'll see that you really don't want to miss this year's line-up. Firstly we have a talk by PostgreSQL veteran and core team member Bruce Momjian who will be "Explaining the Postgres Query Optimizer". This will enlighten attendees as to how PostgreSQL makes its decisions in response to queries which is important to understand in order to know how best to ask PostgreSQL what you want. Bruce gave a very popular MVCC talk last year, and no doubt this one will be one to watch. Also, Michael Meskes's talk entitled "Mission impossible? Can I replace my most important databases with PostgreSQL?" won't be a brief "yes", but will elaborate on Mi...