PGConf.Russia 2018

DBeaver is the Universal Databases Manager. We creating DBeaver using Open Source Software model. We pay special attention to the PotgreSQL because of its capabilities, popularity and OSS nature. We will talk about DBeaver evolution and structure, will demonstrate the basic functionality. We are going to cover challenges of PostgreSQL client creation. Also we will discuss requirements management model and interaction with the PostgreSQL community. We will show in details how to debug the PL/pgSQL stored procedures interactively. We are going to introduce some new features of the nearest DBeaver release and to share our plans.

When one faces the issues with PostgreSQL, the main suspicion falls on vacuum. Experience of Data Egret team proves how many DBAs are attacking this rake. While there are tons of information, documentation and discussions on vacuum itself, the topic is still associated with a lot of myths, tales, horror stories and misconceptions. In my talk I will try to reveal the key points concerning the inner structure of vacuum, basic approaches to its adjustment and tuning, performance monitoring, and so on.

It is often required to asynchronously perform several transactions in a strictly defined sequence, not just a single transaction. There are several ways to achieve this, and one of the solutions available is the pgpro_scheduler module.

WAL-G is simple and effective disaster recovery tool for PostgreSQL using cloud storages. In its core functionality, WAL-G is the successor of WAL-E rewritten in Go. But there is one new neat feature - delate-backups. WAL-G delta-backups, whenever possible, stores only pages, changed since the previous backup. In this talk, I'm going to describe development process of this feature.

Surprisingly, most important and complicated question was the design of the interface: WAL-e is simple and comprehensive, keeping these properties was goal #1. Technical details of implementation were covering some underwater stones too. Besides these, I want to discuss the perspective of technological development and future coordination of recovery tools developers.