PgConf.Russia 2020

A short overview of the main trends in Postgres development - both for the product itself and the community. What has changed in community goals?

I'll show an example of solving the problem of searching "similar" texts for one given text in big array using GiST index. The problem itself is not much important, but it is easy to understand. Using this problem as example, I'll show one of many methods of adapting GiST index for custom search problems. Maybe this talk will help you to solve other search problems.

Open-source maintainers face many challenges as projects grow. How to write more required features, fix more issues and have time to watch more pull requests? On the example of WAL-G(backup tool for PostgreSQL) I will tell you about how we solved these problems by launching a course of Open-source development at Ural Federal University, what we achieved and what will we do next.

PostgreSQL is one of the most readily extensible databases in the world. Custom data types, aggregations, functions, and more can be easily and safely written in C.

This hands-on tutorial covers the basics of writing functions, data types, and aggregates in C. It is recommended (though not strictly required) that bring their own laptops and be prepared to actually try the exercises.

Topics covered include: 1. The PostgreSQL type system 2. Creating a simple custom type in C 3. Common errors for non-C programmers 4. Creating a simple aggregate in C

There will be many opportunities for questions and discussion through the tutorial.