Andrew Dunstan
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Bio
Andrew Dunstan works for a small consulting and software company in the Triangle area of North Carolina, and contributes to PostgreSQL as an enthusiastic hobbyist as well as a sometime professional user. In addition to creating the PostgreSQL Buildfarm, he has contributed to PostgreSQL in these areas, among others:
- Ability to use CIDR netmasks in the pg_hba.conf configuration file
- Complete rewrite of
initdb
,pg_config
, andpg_ctl
programs in C; previously these were long shell scripts (change required for Windows port) - Vastly improved PL/Perl server-side programming language
- Regression test fixes to support Windows port
- New SQL quoting mechanism ("dollar quoting")
- Ability to log disconnections
- Ability to tag each log line with useful, configurable information
- Ability to read and write Comma Separated Variable files
- Revised and improved TCP/IP and Virtual Hosting configuration
- Improvements in related PostgreSQL Autodoc utility
- Code to assist Bugzilla project to support PostgreSQL
- Establishing and administering pgFoundry site for related community projects