PgConf.Russia 2020

Kubernetes crash course for Postgres DBAs

Kubernetes is the new way of deploying software, programmatically, on almost any infrastructure (be it cloud or on-prem). But is a complex beast. How to get started? How to dive deeper? What are the specific best-practices and special hints for Postgres DBAs dealing with Kubernetes? Join this half-day tutorial to learn, practically, among other topics:

• How to quickly get started with Kubernetes
• Manage storage
• Manage services, networking and ingress/egress
• How to make Postgres cloud-native in Kubernetes
• Do a show-run of existing Postgres operators, including Zalando, CrunchyData and StackGres.

This tutorial is very practical. BYOL! (Bring Your Own Laptop). With Kubernetes installed! (check microk8s, minikube or k3s if you don’t have any installed.

Анализ движения наземного общественного транспорта Москвы: от PostGIS к MobilityDB

Наземный общественный транспорт Москвы во время движения по городу передаёт геоданные с помощью системы ГЛОНАСС. Эти данные хранятся и используются для анализа движения, выявления проблемных мест, составления расписаний и проектирования выделенных полос. Для хранения данных используется БД PostgreSQL c популярным расширением PostGIS. Новое расширение MobilityDB специально предназначено для работы с геоданными, изменяющимися во времени. Я сравнила решения наших задач с использованием MobilityDB и без него и хочу рассказать о полученных результатах и перспективах использования новой системы.

Writing a User-defined datatype

Walk-through of extending PostgreSQL with a user-defined type. The journey begins from the basics, from creating simple domain types over existing types, and continues to implementing a full-blown datatype from scratch in C.

PostgreSQL's advanced index types, GiST, GIN, and SP-GiST, are covered in enough detail to give an understanding of what each of them is good for. Support functions for each of them are shown for the example 'color' datatype.

MobilityDB: Managing Mobility Data in PostgreSQL

MobilityDB is an open source moving object database system (https://github.com/ULB-CoDE-WIT/MobilityDB). Its core function is to efficiently store and query mobility tracks, such as vehicle GPS trajectories. It implements the Moving Features specification from the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). MobiltyDB is engineered up from PostgreSQL and PostGIS, providing spatiotemporal data management via SQL. It thus integrates with the postgreSQL eco-system allowing for complex architectures such as mobility stream processing and cloud deployments.

The presentation will explain the architecture of MobilityDB, its database types, indexes, and operations. We will highlight the PostgreSQL features that enable this extension, and the would like to have features. This presentation will be of special interest to the PostgreSQL community, and to professionals in the transportation domain.