# Back from CHAR(10)

DevFeed: [Back from CHAR(10)](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/back-from-char-10-34367.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2010/07/back-from-char10/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2010-07-05T07:30:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

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

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Algorithms](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/algorithms.md>), [Network](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/network.md>), [Server](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/server.md>)

Tags: [algorithm](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/algorithm.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [distributed](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/distributed.md>), [network](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/network.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [servers](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/servers.md>)

## AI overview

The author reflects on CHAR(10) after attending PGCon 2010 in Oxford and previews future writing about PostgreSQL in the cloud and PostgreSQL optimization. They also plan to investigate whether Paxos and libpaxos could support a reliable distributed sequence across networked servers without downtime when members join or fail.

## Source excerpt

It surely does not feel like a full month and some more went by since we were enjoying PGCon 2010, but in fact it was already the time for CHAR(10). The venue was most excellent, as Oxford is a very beautiful city. Also, the college was like a city in the city, and having the accomodation all in there really smoothed it all. On a more technical viewpoint, the range of topics we talked about and the even broader one in the "Hall Track" make my mind full of ideas, again. So I'm preparing a quite lengthy article to summarise or present all those ideas, and I think a post series should cover the points in there. When trying to label things, it appears that my current obsessions are mainly about PostgreSQL in the Cloud and Further Optimising PostgreSQL, so that's what I'll be talking about those next days.