Bratislava PostgreSQL Meetup v0.1

​Hello everyone!

​We would like to welcome you for our 1st PostgreSQL Meetup in Bratislava!

​The show will be hosted at BSP at K Železnej Studienke 27.

​Event is free of charge so every enthusiast is welcomed!

​What is included:

• ​Superb community

• ​Great presentations

• ​Soft drinks & snacks

• ​Fruits also ;-)

• ​Networking

​After talks, there will be place for networking. We would like to gather for non-formal after-party at Patrónsky Pivovar (not included in event).

​The programe is as following:

• ​17:45-18:00 - gather

• ​18:00-18:15 - intro + vendor talk

• ​18:15-19:00 - Mayur/DBE@Veeam: Postgres Therapy Session: What the Elephant Can Learn from Its Rivals?

• ​19:00-19:15 - break

• ​19:15-20:00 - Devrim Gündüz@EnterpriseDB: Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions

• ​20:00-20:30 - networking + gather for beer

​Detailed informations about speakers and talks:

​Mayur is a DBA with 15 years of experience, started with Oracle but now Postgres is his "ikigai". Mayur is creator of pgscorecard.com, a PostgreSQL compatibility index, and a hobbyist extension developer. Additionally, pioneering the genre of "database comedy" to popularize Postgres with memes, see his work at drunkdba.medium.com.

​Postgres Therapy Session: What the Elephant Can Learn from Its Rivals?

​Postgres may rank #4 on DB-Engines and #1 in developers’ hearts, yet it's rivals flaunt enviable tricks such as Oracle’s RAC and DRCP (database resident connection pool), DB2’s adaptive compression, SQL Server’s Hekaton (in-memory OLTP), MongoDB's TTL indexes, and DuckDB’s direct object-storage querying, and more. We’ll show how these and many other features work, why they matter, and dig into the historical reasons Postgres didn’t adopt them. We’ll also test-drive a couple of prototype patches/extensions to gauge what’s realistically shippable.

​Devrim Gündüz is a long-time PostgreSQL, Red Hat, Fedora contributor, and also working on some more open source projects. He is responsible for the PostgreSQL YUM and ZYPP repositories for RPM based distributions.

​His career started as a system administrator, and now he is working as PostgreSQL expert at EnterpriseDB.

​Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions

​Extension concept is a big feature of PostgreSQL and users can add interesting capabilities to their database instances using them.

​In this talk I will cover these topics:

• ​How it started: "Contrib"

• ​Introduction of extension concept

• ​Challenges around extensions: Distribution and packaging

• ​Developing an extension: Anything can happen?

• ​Maintenance of existing extensions

• ​Favourite extensions: Data from users