PGConf.Russia 2018

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.

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.

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.

Tutorial will show specifics of server programming in these languages. I will present practical examples and compare the features of these languages in PostgreSQL environment from the viewpoint of solving practical tasks.