2025-10-13 - KDB Project Call Meeting Minutes

[rdffy]

Date

Monday, October 13, 2025 - 9:30am ET / 2:30pm UK
This was on Columbus day

// Second Monday of every month

Attendees

Fullname	Affiliation	GitHub Username
Karl Moll	FINOS	karlmoll
Péter Györök	KX	gyorokpeter
Javier Ramírez	QuestDB	javier
Latchezar Nikolov	Morgan Stanley
Ross Duffy	Morgan Stanley	rdffy

Meeting notices

• FINOS Project leads are responsible for observing the FINOS guidelines for running project meetings. Project maintainers can find additional resources in the FINOS Maintainers Cheatsheet.

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• FINOS project meetings may be recorded for use solely by the FINOS team for administration purposes. In very limited instances, and with explicit approval, recordings may be made more widely available.

Agenda

• (5 min) Convene, roll call, welcome new people.
• Display FINOS Antitrust Policy summary slide
• Review Meeting Notices (see above)
• (5 min) Approve previous meeting minutes
• (5 min) FINOS goings-on
  • Javier Joined in from QuestDB https://questdb.com/
• (20 min) KX / kdb+ goings-on
  • Péter gave a preview of the upcoming kdb-x docs. Specifically the module system.
    • private variables and exposing the public functions in a module via export was shown
    • .z.M and .z.m usage for referencing current module
    • how to set the search path so that you cna control where modules are looked for. Default is $QHOME
    • kdb-x can have empty projections
  • Question on when grouped attribute is actually useful for on disk data . Will be raised as a general question to KX.
• (15 min) Brainstorming
• (5 min) AOB, Q&A, Adjourn

Join Zoom Meeting

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[rdffy]

I didn't realize today was a US holiday. I'll be on the start of todays call but we'll move the actual call to next week

[karlmoll]

Karl Moll / FINOS

[gyorokpeter]

Péter Györök / KX

[javier]

Hi. Javier, from QuestDB here

[rdffy]

I didn't realize today was a US holiday. I'll be on the start of todays call but we'll move the actual call to next week

meeting went ahead with some new attendees. Minutes to follow

[rdffy]

Ross Duffy / Morgan Stanley