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?

Migrating engineering software from Oracle to PostgreSQL
Dmitry will talk about using an automated migrator developed by "Diasoft" company for migrating Russian systems to PostgreSQL.
Taking the LOOTSMAN engineering software (developed by the ASKON company), we will speak about the key aspects of migration, review possible issues and ways to resolve them, as well as discuss performance optimization methods for migrated stored procedures.

Everyone has heard something about transaction isolation levels, but oddly enough, almost no one can clearly explain what it is any why it is important. At the same time, for many operations, it is critical to have a clear understanding of isolation levels and how they can affect the result. Indeed, if a customer has been paid twice and the developer has to pay back the losses, it won't seem unimportant. We'll discuss how to avoid such unpleasant situations.

PostgreSQL built-in full text search gives unique possibilities inaccessible for external search engines, such as virtual or generated document search and search with access restrictions. I will talk about these and other features, full text search configuration, indexes, and highlight the latest advances and future expectations