Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions
Thursday, June 25 at 16:40–17:30
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Devrim Gündüz is a long-time PostgreSQL and 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.
Lives in London, UK.
Category: DBA
Level: Beginner
Language: EN
Room: 3.008
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
