PgConf.Russia 2017

A summary of what the Postgres Professional company has achieved in its two-year history:

• Our achievements in PostgreSQL development.
• What is the Russian Postgres Pro DBMS, and how is it related to PostgreSQL?
• What is Postgres Pro Enterprise, and why Enterprise?
• What about trainings and certification?

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Experience we've got after 5 years of developing, deploying and improving BI system http://colibri365.ru used in government. I would talk about government IT reality and our way over it. Postgres performance improvements, using of latest features, overwriting of user generated queries to help query optimizer and other tweaks and hacks to tackle limited hardware problems. These lead us to number of computer science papers and (now committed) patches to Postgres (see Andrey Borodin talks for details).

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In the data persistence layer, using PostgreSQL from the very start of development, we went all the way from a small cluster on a virtual machine to a multi-host system that provides near real-time processing of mixed OLTP/OLAP load. In this talk, I’m going to tell you about the main development stages of our analytical solution at the application and infrastructure levels, and describe the specifics of using PG that we encountered.

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