PgConf.Russia 2017

This talk is intended for Oracle DBAs whose are considering to start using PostgreSQL as another RDBMS engine in their DB portfolio or for PostgreSQL DBAs, who wants to learn some of similarities and differences between Oracle and PostgreSQL. This talk is not intended to be a migration guideline neither advocating one platform over another. General database structure overview for both platforms will be compared in terms of memory configuration parameters; logical to physical structure as well as we’ll touch some security point of view and backup & recovery tools available. Oracle container databases are not covered. The talk want’s to help create a bridge for DBA and avoid some frustrations at the first Oracle DBA step to discover, learn and start using PostgreSQL as reliable fully functional database.

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Debugging, profiling, and tracing of the executed commands play an important role in development of any applications. This is also true for developing stored procedures in DBMS.

PostgreSQL offers various tools (both built-in and external) for these purposes.

In this talk, we will provide an overview of the available tools and their advantages and disadvantages, as well as a detailed demo of their use cases.

This talk is a part of a basic course for backend application developers (DEV1), which “Postgres Professional” company plans to announce in the near future.

1. 1C:Enterprise 8 and PostgreSQL 9 interoperability 1.1 Changes in new 1C platform versions 1.2 v81c_data and v81c_index schemas 1.3 Sending 1C queries to SQL 1.4 Using 1C technological log events for PostgreSQL diagnostics
2. Analyzing queries that affect PostgreSQL performance 2.1 A free tool for automating log parsing 2.2 Pareto principle in action 2.3 Installation and configuration of the tool 2.4 A case study of query optimization 2.4.1 An issue in a PostgreSQL query 2.4.2 Finding non-optimal operations in a query 2.4.3 Resolving inefficiencies
3. PostgreSQL statistics for performance diagnostics 3.1 Comparing Postgres with MS SQL Server 3.2 Troubleshooting locks 3.3 Operating load diagnostics 4 Case studies by the gilev.ru team

Often it is enforced by the customer or even by law, to document the circumstances of the production of parts or lots. This talk is about the automated generation and storage of the corresponding administrative data and their correlation to measurements. Administrative data are entities like suppliers batch, article, serial number or production date. They are often to be exchanged with ERP systems.