PgConf.Russia 2016

• the architecture
• the design and implementation of PL/pgSQL
• the difference between PL/SQL and PL/pgSQL
• the advantage and issues of PL/pgSQL

Greenplum is a PostgreSQL fork, optimized for Analytics and Data Warehouse use cases. Pivotal announced in early 2015 that a number of products will go Open Source, one of them is Greenplum Database. This talk provides an overview over the history of Greenplum, the entire process of bringing the product into Open Source, all the stumbling blocks we ran into, and explains how contributors can participate.

My experience of working with PostgreSQL has provided clear understanding of its main advantages, making us choose and recommend choosing it.
1. Beginning
2. Documentation
3. Community
4.1 Transactional DDL
4.2 WAL and True Physical Replication
4.3 Transactional Snapshot and True Logical Replication and PGQ
4.4 Exciting extensibility
5. Success