PgConf.Russia 2017

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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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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Tencent, based in China, is one of the world's largest companies in the social networking space. This talk discusses how Tencent modified the code of Postgres-XC to meet their internal payment system requirements