# PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012

DevFeed: [PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/postgresql-conference-europe-2012-34651.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/conf/postgresql-conference-europe-2012/>)

Published: 2012-10-22T22:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

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

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/migration.md>), [MySQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mysql.md>), [Amazon Web Services](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/aws.md>), [Website](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/website.md>)

Tags: [aws](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/aws.md>), [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [europe](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/europe.md>), [migration](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/migration.md>), [mysql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mysql.md>), [pgq](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pgq.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [presentation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/presentation.md>), [queue](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/queue.md>), [technologies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/technologies.md>), [users](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/users.md>), [web](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/web.md>)

## AI overview

An overview of PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2012, including talks on migrating the Fotolog website from MySQL to PostgreSQL on AWS and on PGQ Cooperative Consumers for sharing load across consumers on a transactional queue. The conference took place in Prague from October 23-26, 2012.

## Source excerpt

The first talk is about a PostgreSQL Migration (from MySQL) of the Fotolog web site with 32 millions of users, 1 billion photos and 10 billion comments on those photos. The target architecture has been deployed to AWS. The second presentation is a Ligthning Talk about PGQ Cooperative Consumers, that allow sharing the load in between multiple consumers on the same transactional queue.