PGConf.Russia 2018

Last year we announced Skala-SR / Postgres Pro database machine with a hardware and software support for remote direct memory access (RDMA) as a key feature. The first appliances have been already installed at customer sites, and even with the first version customers got some constructions, that were impossible without RDMA and CPU offload (got with Mellanox networking). However, capabilities of this equipment are much wider, and this talk is dedicated to current works and prospective developments for this topic.

How to optimize query processing in PostgreSQL? What if we deal with hundreds of servers and thousands of instances? The company "Tensor" has developed a special tool - explain.sbis.ru, which enables synchronous collection and analysis of queries, visualization of implementation plans, and monitoring of bugs in database.

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.

Tutorial on Full Text Seach in PostgreSQL, containing all recent improvemets. All recipies necessary for building an application will be given: dictionary and parser configuration, faceted search, fuzzy search, multilanguage search, ranking etc. Participants will be provided with a test database for exercises.