PGConf.Russia 2023

pg_copydb is a new tool that automates database copy between two running Postgres servers. In this talk we will review the utility, share results of testing and practical use of utility for Postgres database upgrade.

The following topics will be covered as part of the presentation:

• Architecture of logical replication
• Publisher introduction
• Subscriber introduction
• Data syncronization introduction
• Logical decoding
• Replication slot
• output plugin

ORM libraries are widely used in backend development – let's take this for granted. ORM libraries are improving, developers are learning from their own and others' mistakes, and many have learned to write code for ORM that generates quite optimal queries for typical operations. Yet, limited functionality of existing tools is another problem related to ORM. This is especially true for Postgres, which has a lot of operators and constructs (both in the core and in extensions) that go beyond the SQL standard.

With LinqToDb ORM library you can write extensions that implement any SQL operator or construct very easy, literally using just one line. Full-text search, KNN, CTE (including recursive ones), working with arrays and jsonb, array_agg and jsonb_object_agg, table functions and LATERAL JOIN - all this can be easily used in ORM, which I will demonstrate during this talk!

One of the main needs of high-load database projects is a right configured load balancer within the database cluster. Most of the solutions I worked with, including Pgpool-II, could not fully suit business requirements. In this article me as a network engineer with broad experience will cover tricky configurations of the Pgpool-II operating in the “Master-Master” mode, as well as consider cases in which similar solutions are indispensable.