# PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011: Foreign Data Wrappers, PLv8, and Replication

DevFeed: [PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011: Foreign Data Wrappers, PLv8, and Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/back-from-amsterdam-34456.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2011/10/back-from-amsterdam/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2011-10-26T08:08:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [remote access](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/remote-access.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/real-time.md>), [Replication](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/replication.md>)

Tags: [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [latency](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/latency.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [real-time](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/real-time.md>), [remote-access](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/remote-access.md>), [replication](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/replication.md>)

## AI overview

A personal report from PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 in Amsterdam covering Foreign Data Wrappers in PostgreSQL 9.1, PLv8, and synchronous replication and durability tuning. It highlights remote access to external data, mixed synchronous and asynchronous transactions, and reported experimental throughput of several thousand queries per second.

## Source excerpt

Another great conference took place last week, PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2011 was in Amsterdam and plenty of us PostgreSQL geeks were too. I attended to lot of talks and did learn some more about our project, its community and its features, but more than that it was a perfect occasion to meet with the community. Dave Page talked about SQL/MED under the title PostgreSQL at the center of your dataverse and detailed what to expert from a Foreign Data Wrapper in PostgreSQL 9.1, then how to write your own. Wherever you are currently managing your data, you can easily enough make it so that PostgreSQL integrates them by means of fetching them to answer your queries. Which means real time data federating: you don't copy data around, you remote access them when executing the query.