PG Day'16 Russia

Peter van Hardenberg

Peter van Hardenberg founded the Heroku Postgres team, a service that provides the largest pool of Postgres databases in the world. His experience gave him a significant appreciation for the power and reliability of PostgreSQL at scale as well as robbing him of several years of good night's sleep. These days, Peter spends more time querying Postgres databases for product analysis than he does operating them. When he isn't speaking at conferences he resides in San Francisco where he can often be found on a bicycle remarking on how much warmer California is than his home country of Canada.

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Understanding the power of data types: PostgreSQL's secret weapon

Everyone's familiar with the basic data types - numeric, text, boolean, and so on. In this talk, we'll quickly review those types, and then go further into exploring the diverse and powerful data types that make Postgres easier to model, perform better, and enable whole new use-cases.

In addition to the new and exciting JSONB data type, we'll also look at types like ARRAYs, range types, and how to use domains to construct your own data types and aggregates. We'll even examine some of the 3rd party data types like emails and URIs and talk about why these are possible, and how they can be practically harnessed to improve your applications.

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Dear !

I would like to attend PG Day’16 Russia conference,
devoted to PostgreSQL databases, that will take place on 5-8 of July in St. Petersburg.

At the conference I will have an opportunity to:

Systematize my current knowledge about PostgreSQL DBMS and obtain the new ones;
Receive guidelines on maintenance and operation of PostgreSQL;
Improve my personal skills with PostgreSQL;
Get the latest information about the community;
Improve my efficiency by means of taking advice from the most prominent PostgreSQL experts and adopting best practices of colleagues from other companies;
Get new ideas and find out more about innovative modes of operation.

This is an estimate list of expenses:

Approximate cost of flight tickets — [15000] rur
Approximate cost of accommodation — [12300] rur
Conference attendance — [18000] rur
Total amount — [42300] rur

On return I will make an 1 hour report for my colleagues and highlight the most interesting issues of the conference and offer testimonials to help improve efficiency of the team.
Looking forward to hearing from you as soon as possible!

Best regards,

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