Nikolay Samokhvalov @samokhvalov

Founder at Postgres.ai

About

~20 years of experience with various DBMSes, ~15 years with PostgreSQL.

M.S., MIPT and ISP RAS, specialty "Database systems".

Founder of Postgres.ai.

Long-term community activist: #RuPostgres, Postgres.tv.

Committee Chair for Database/Architecture Sections of Highload++, RITFest, etc.

Twitter: @samokhvalov

    Nikolay Samokhvalov Common DB Schema Change Mistakes
    Why changing schema under load is hard and what to do about it

    presented by Nikolay Samokhvalov

    One of the easiest ways to "create a heavy load from nothing" is to write a couple of DDL commands and deploy them to production without thorough analysis and testing.

    In this talk, we will discuss several widespread mistakes that many developers and DBAs regularly make during active application development, when there is a need to change DB schema – from adding new database objects or colum...

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    Fri 8 2022 Dev