PgConf.Russia 2016

When new versions of Postgres are released most of the attention is focused on new features. Inevitably a release note claiming speed improvements seems relatively mundane and doesn't provide the compelling argument for upgrading. However the reality is that these speed improvements represent pain points that have been identified and solved.

Reviewing the changes to the sort code in Postgres over the last 10 years clearly shows the kinds of problems users have run into. As usage patterns changed over years, databases scaled up, and hardware changed new problems arose and drove further development to solve them.

Upcoming changes in 9.5 and 9.6 will dramatically change the experience further. Making sorting UTF8 and other encodings less of a problem and handling scaling to larger machines with many processors and memory cache more effectively.

Heroku Postgres is a cloud database service and the largest provider of PostgreSQL as a service anywhere. We operate more than 1,000,000 PostgreSQL databases with a team of about 10 people. We may be the most efficient DBAs in history, with approximately 100,000 databases per person on our team! This talk will introduce the opportunity and challenges of building and operating a cloud database service, as well as discussing the strategies we use to build, operate, and scale this product and team for the last six years now. We will include details about

• a brief introduction to the service to provide context
• strategies to design and build such a data service
• operational war stories like how to recover from losing thousands of servers at once,
• common challenges users have with Postgres
• and a basic overview of the technical architecture

This is a complementary talk to Will Leinweber's talk, which will go into much more depth on the architecture of the software we have written.

Речь пойдёт о "hasql", высокоэффективной библиотеке для интеграции Haskell с PostgreSQL. Вы познакомитесь с удивительным языком программирования Haskell, преимуществами декларативного программирования и техническими решениями библиотеки, среди которых имплементация бинарного протокола для общения с Postgres. Эта библиотека используется проектом PostgREST, популярным универсальным REST API для баз данных Postgres.

Мой доклад будет посвящён особенностям использования и администрирования PostgreSQL в Debian GNU/Linux в Avito. В частности, таким проблемам как:

- bash скрипты
- утилиты pg_* debian
- отладка postgres: perf, gdb
- COPY без разрывов: psql, pipe
- pgbouncer: один, два, ... больше?
- cron
- мониторинг
- очередь на advisory lock
- файловый кеш
- DDL на нагруженной базе
- и т.д.