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Tom Lane is a member of the PostgreSQL core team and a prominent code contributor.

He spends as much time as he can on improving the query planner, but has been seen getting his fingers dirty in most other parts of the Postgres sources too. Before he started spending so much time on Postgres, Tom was well known in the image compression community for his work on libjpeg and the PNG and TIFF standards. He's been writing open-source code for more than twenty years.

- biography courtesy of PGCon

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Archive for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Varchar vs foreign key vs enumerator - table and index size
Archive for pgsql-admin@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: to_timestamp error between postgres version 8.3 and 9.2
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Variadic aggregates vs. project policy
Archive for pgsql-committers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 pgsql: Improve regression test for #8410.
Archive for pgsql-committers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 pgsql: Improve regression test for #8410.
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Variadic aggregates vs. project policy
Archive for pgsql-committers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 pgsql: Add test case for bug #8410.
Archive for pgsql-committers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 pgsql: Add test case for bug #8410.
Archive for pgsql-committers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 pgsql: Reset the binary heap in MergeAppend rescans.
Archive for pgsql-committers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 pgsql: Reset the binary heap in MergeAppend rescans.
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: operator precedence issues
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Window functions can be created with defaults, but they don't work
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Window functions can be created with defaults, but they don't work
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: [v9.4] row level security
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Archive for pgsql-general@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Unable to CREATE SCHEMA and INSERT data in table in that schema in same EXECUTE
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Variadic aggregates vs. project policy
Archive for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Query plan change with multiple elements in IN clause
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Add pgbench option: CHECKPOINT before starting benchmark
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: ENABLE/DISABLE CONSTRAINT NAME
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Variadic aggregates vs. project policy
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Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Master-slave visibility order
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Variadic aggregates vs. project policy
Archive for pgsql-general@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: question about age()
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Variadic aggregates vs. project policy
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: [v9.4] row level security
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Archive for pgsql-general@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Stat estiamtes off - why?
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: [v9.4] row level security
Archive for pgsql-performance@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: SQL statement over 500% slower with 9.2 compared with 9.1
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: ALTER SYSTEM SET command to change postgresql.conf parameters (RE: Proposal for Allow postgresql.conf values to be changed via SQL [review])
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Spinlock implementation on x86_64 (was Re: Better LWLocks with compare-and-swap (9.4))
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: split postmaster's checkDataDir to src/common
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Deprecating RULES
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Deprecating RULES
Archive for pgsql-general@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: pg_extension_config_dump() with a sequence
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: split postmaster's checkDataDir to src/common
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: PL/pgSQL PERFORM with CTE
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: pg_restore multiple --function options
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: pg_restore multiple --function options
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: UNNEST with multiple args, and TABLE with multiple funcs
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: pg_system_identifier()
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: GetTransactionSnapshot() in enum.c
Archive for pgsql-general@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Problem creating index
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: pg_dump/restore encoding woes
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Hstore: Query speedups with Gin index
Archive for pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 Re: Performance problem in PLPgSQL
Archive for pgsql-committers@postgresql.org Aug 2013 pgsql: Account better for planning cost when choosing whether to use cu