PgConf.Russia 2017

I want to present a new custom access method, which extends the current GIN capabilities using additional information stored in posting tree/list. For example, positional information as an additional information allows new AM returns results in relevance order, which could considerably improve execution time of full text queries.

It's not a secret that PostgreSQL connections are expensive so you should save them. To solve this problem there are PgPool-II and PgBouncer for quite a long time. At Yandex tens of thousands of connections to a single database is not a surprise so we use pgbouncer since time immemorial. This talk gives an overview of problems we faced and ways to solve them.

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This report overviews some ideas and implementations to speedup different parts of generalized search trees (GiST): 1. Intrapage indexing 2. Fractal tree technology 3. Modern algorithms for spatial indexing (RR*-tree) 4.. Possible advancements of GiST API

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Real-word data often need cryptographycal protection. The presentation describes typical problems that can be solved using cryptographycal methods and the right ways to use cryptography with RDBMS. The newest solutions suggested for usage with PostgreSQL are described.

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