PgConf.Russia 2017

1. What is an autonomous transaction?
2. An overview of autonomous transactions in "big" DBMS: Oracle.
3. Autonomous transaction logic in Postgres Pro.
4. An overview of emulation methods for autonomous transactions in PostgreSQL.
5. Comparing performance of the built-in Postgres Pro autonomous transaction mechanism and PostgreSQL emulation methods.

VIDEO

Nowadays one can make a decent urban research based simply on public datasets, making interesting and unexpected insights. In the presentation, I'll show examples of these calculations in PostGIS, the industry standard de-facto.

But just PostGIS is not enough. You need tools to import, verify and visualize the data. It's critically important to visualize the data live, to debug your calculations and shorten iterations. I'll describe all these steps:

1. Collecting the data: public API, OpenStreetMap; direct user input.
2. 3rd party APIs for calculations.
3. Visualization of GIS and other sorts of data: QGIS, Matplotlib, Zeppelin integrated with PostGIS.
4. Debugging the calculations: live visualization (Arc, QGIS, NextGIS Web)
5. Scripting and minimizing the chores: Makefile, Gulp

The PostgreSQL community is over 20 years old, but the history of PostgreSQL dates back even farther. In this talk, we'll learn about the roots of the Postgres project, learn about some of the people who contribute to it, study how it has changed over time, and pay special attention to the many contributions of Russian people.