PGConf.Russia 2018

One of advantages of document-oriented databases like MongoDB or Couchbase over RDBMSs is an ability to change the data scheme easily, fast and often. The traditional approach in RDBMS world involves doing an expensive ALTER TABLE operation, slow upgrade of an existing data, and stuff like this. This approach is often slow and inconvenient for application developers.

To solve this issue PostgreSQL provides JSON and JSONB datatypes. Also there are extensions like zson and pg_protobuf. From this talk you will learn how to work with these datatypes and extensions, their pros and cons and also related future work in this area.

The speaker will share his experience of transferring high-loaded game projects that were originally developed to work with MySQL into PostgreSQL. Problems that had been expected and ones that were actually faced. Tricky bugs that were found in production servers after the migration. Solutions that were used to deal with problems. PostgreSQL features that were very useful and desirable ones that were missing.

The presentation describes crypto-related parameters of PostgreSQL configuration (both authentication and TLS-protection of the connection to DB) and what do they mean

Azure Database for PostgreSQL is a managed database service built for developers using the community PostgreSQL database technology you love. Learn how you can leverage the managed service and the key capabilities that the service offers which enables you as a developer to focus on developing apps. Using customer stories and experiences including live demos, we will walk through best practices and demonstrate how this service integrates with the other Azure services.