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

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

VIDEO

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.