Gavin Sherry is Australia's leading PostgreSQL expert, and a prominent PostgreSQL community member.

Gavin recently gave an enlightening tech talk on the internals of PostgreSQL, in which he discussed functionality such as Write-Ahead Logging (WAL) in great detail, and explored various other issues which may be of relevance to PostgreSQL DBAs everywhere.

We're pleased to provide the first video in this four part series to the community in order to disseminate Gavin's knowledge to all those interested.

The video can be viewed here.

I have been involved with the Fujitsu Supported PostgreSQL programme since its inception just over 2 years ago. Fujitsu’s PostgreSQL interests and activities however go back further than that and in total the organisation has embraced PostgreSQL for more than three years.

Why is Fujitsu fascinated with PostgreSQL? Probably because of the organisation’s great history of technical innovation and scientific pedigree which mirrors that of PostgreSQL and it’s supporting community. PostgreSQL is a good fit for Fujitsu and vice versa.

Though it may seem strange to draw parallels between a commercial organisation with business ambitions and an open source community, the common thread of building great technology and the excitement surrounding that, unites our respective groups.