Christophe Pettus

CEO at PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.

About

Christophe has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He's Chief Executive Officer of PostgreSQL Experts. Inc.

Christophe Pettus has presented the following presentations

PostgreSQL When It's Not Your Job at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

presented by Christophe Pettus
PostgreSQL has become the default database for most green-field development projects, and is the data storage architecture behind many success stories, such as Instagram. Despite a reputation as being complex and fiddly, Postgres is easy to install, administer, maintain, and use... with just a little bit of orientation. This is that orientation. PostgreSQL has a reputation as being complex and ...
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Training
Corruption War Stories at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

presented by Christophe Pettus

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Every instance of database corruption is unique. In this talk, we'll talk about some specific, real-world examples of PostgreSQL database corruption, and how they were repaired. We'll step through each one with how we detected it, how we isolated the issue, and what we did to patch it... and what did and didn't work. We'll also go over how to avoid those specific issues, and general approaches ...
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Thu 30 2017 Use Cases
Django and PostgreSQL: Two Great Tastes at PGConf US 2017 [PgConf.US]

presented by Christophe Pettus
The Django web framework has added a lot of powerful PostgreSQL-specific features around full-text search, migrations, and indexing. We'll go over what's available now, common use cases, and what's coming in Django 1.11.
Thu 30 2017 Development
PostgreSQL When It is Not Your Job. at PGConf US 2016 [PgConf.US]

presented by Christophe Pettus
PostgreSQL has become the default database for most green-field development projects, and is the data storage architecture behind many success stories, such as Instagram. Despite a reputation as being complex and fiddly, Postgres is easy to install, administer, maintain, and use... with just a little bit of orientation. This is that orientation. PostgreSQL has a reputation as being complex and ...
more
Operations
JSON and PostgreSQL, the State of the Art at PGConf US 2015 [PgConf.US]

presented by Christophe Pettus
PostgreSQL 9.4 introduces a new type, JSONB, index types, operators... all kinds of new infrastructure for processing JSON. It's all rather overwhelming. We'll look at the current set of tools, including real-life applications and performance metrics, and talk about options as to when it is a great and perhaps still not-as-great idea to use JSON.
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