Summer of Code Students Chosen

Posted on 2006-05-26

Posted by josh@postgresql.org

The PostgreSQL project welcomes our seven Summer of Code

students. We're expecting some really cool new features of this,

and more importantly, some new PostgreSQL contributors! The

projects are:

• Full Disjunctions by Itzhak Fadida, mentored by Jonah H.

  Harris

 

• xlog viewer by Diogo de Oliveira Biazus, mentored by Simon

  Riggs

 

• Hashing DISTINCT Clause Implementation by Beth Jen,

  mentored by Jonah H. Harris

 

• phpPgAdmin improvements by John Jawed, mentored by Robert

  Treat

 

• Enhanced Aggregate Support by Sergey Koposov, mentored by

  Oleg Bartunov

 

• ECPG Cleanup by Joachim Wieland, mentored by Michael

  Meskes

 

• Initial support of XMLType for PostgreSQL by Nikolay

  Samokhvalov, mentored by Peter Eisentraut

Additionally, two students have been connected with internship

opportunities at PostgreSQL-supporting companies.

You can find out more on

"http://code.google.com/soc/pgsql/about.html" target=

"_blank">Google's SoC Page.

Welcome students, and a big thank you to Google for making this

work and education possible.