Peter Geoghegan — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Serves as a Major Contributor and Committer to the PostgreSQL RDBMS.
Authored and reviewed many features in PostgreSQL, with an emphasis on the standard B-Tree index access method and VACUUM.
Responsible for enhancements and bug fixes in PostgreSQL related to concurrency control, logging and recovery, and tuple sorting.
Possesses broad knowledge of modern CPU architectures, compilers, storage and filesystem issues, OS internals, and general purpose data structures and algorithms.

Biography

Peter Geoghegan is a major contributor and committer to the PostgreSQL Relational Database Management System (RDBMS). He is recognized for authoring and reviewing many features within PostgreSQL, with a recent emphasis on the standard B-Tree index access method and the VACUUM process. His work also includes numerous enhancements and bug fixes in areas such as concurrency control, logging and recovery, and tuple sorting.