End Point Team

Our team, headquartered in New York City, has developed, maintained, and hosted ecommerce and other web solutions since its founding in 1995. We combine web application development, database and hosting expertise with understanding clients' objectives to excel in client satisfaction.

Greg Sabino Mullane

Greg Sabino Mullane

Database specialist

With End Point Since: 2005
Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Greg's primary programming emphases are PostgreSQL and Perl, including melding the two with DBD::Pg and PL/Perl. He specializes in making web interfaces to database backends, and is currently using AJAX to further the capacities of JavaScript. He has a degree in microbiology, and previously did bioinformatics work for the National Human Genomics Research Institute, where he quickly learned how to deal with extremely large data sets. He has extensive experience with Oracle, Sybase, HTML/CSS, Linux, Solaris, and a number of other open source technologies. Since 2001, Greg is a "major developer" of the PostgreSQL project and is acting as technical consultant on two forthcoming books on Postgres.

Computer Scientist for Digicon Corporation (NHGRI, NIH) from 2003-2005. Bioinformatic support for scientists at the National Human Genome Research Institute; database design and engineering and Perl programming.

Database and Applications Developer for Medical Manager from 2002-2003. Maintained and developed high-volume monitoring system using XML, PostgreSQL, Perl, etc.

Senior Systems Engineer for National Data Corporation from 2000-2001. Main developer for high-volume web-based transaction system using Perl/CGI.

BS, Microbiology and Cell Science, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1997.

When not at the computer working on various projects, Greg enjoys traveling the world with his wife (Hong Kong being the latest trip), playing ball with his dog, and trying to not trip over his own feet in the attempt to master the DDR game.

Recent Blog Posts By Greg Sabino Mullane

Protecting and auditing your secure PostgreSQL data

January 30, 2012

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Finding PostgreSQL temporary_file problems with tail_n_mail

November 10, 2011

Image by Flickr user dirkjanranzijnPostgreSQL does as much work as it can in RAM, but sometimes it needs to (or thinks that it needs to) write things temporarily to disk. Typically, this happens on la... (Finding PostgreSQL temporary_file problems with tail_n_mail cont.)

Using the new version of imapfilter with mutt

October 17, 2011

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Viewing schema changes over time with check_postgres

October 5, 2011

Image by Flickr user edenpicturesVersion 2.18.0 of check_postgres, a monitoring tool for PostgreSQL, has just been released. This new version has quite a large number of changes: see the announcement f... (Viewing schema changes over time with check_postgres cont.)

PostgreSQL Serializable and Repeatable Read Switcheroo

September 28, 2011

PostgreSQL allows for different transaction isolation levels to be specified. Because Bucardo needs a consistent snapshot of each database involved in replication to perform its work, the first thing t... (PostgreSQL Serializable and Repeatable Read Switcheroo cont.)