Contributing to open-source projects can be intimidating – and PostgreSQL is no exception. As a Postgres contributor, I share my hard-earned tips to help you make your first contribution (or contribute more).
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At PGCon 2018 that took place last week (29.05-01.06) my colleague Anastasia and I gave a talk "Growing up new PostgreSQL developers: On teaching students, team leading, project management and stuff". Here are the slides:
Download: growing-up-new-postgresql-developers-pgcon-2018.pdf (517K)
Other talks presented by colleagues of mine:
Yesterday I gave a talk at PGConf.Russia 2018 conference. Here are the slides:
Download: postgresql-and-compressed-documents-pgconf-russia-2018.pdf (1.1M)
Also I would like to share a few random photos I took during the conference. Here they are:
PGConf.Russia is a major annual conference which is entirely dedicated to PostgreSQL …
Recently Stephen Frost called in pgsql-hackers@ mailing list for PostgreSQL-related ideas for Google Summer of Code 2018. I proposed a few ideas and offered to be a possible mentor for corresponding projects. In this post I would like to share a brief description of these projects (copied from PostgreSQL Wiki …
Yesterday I had a few spare hours (I was waiting for 'Star Wars VIII' movie session, which BTW turned out to be great) so I decided to implement one idea I had in mind for quite some time. The idea is to add support of Protobuf datatype to PostgreSQL.
The …
Oleg Bartunov and I have been invited to the PGConf.ASIA 2017 conference that took place 4-6 December in Tokyo, Japan. Both of us attended the developer unconference. Also Oleg had an honor to be a keynote speaker and I gave a talk "PostgreSQL Sharding and HA: Theory and Practice …
I would like to share the slides for a talk I gave last week at [PgDay 2017][pgday]:
Recently I've been invited to the RIT 2017 (Russian Internet Technologies) conference that took place this week in Skolkovo (a place near Moscow) to tell how to use full text search in PostgreSQL. Here are the slides:
Download: postgresql-full-text-search-rit2017.pdf (300K)
My colleagues Oleg Bartunov and Alexander Korotkov have also …
ZSON v1.1 was released recently. Changes since v1.0:
Last week my colleagues Alexander Korotkov, Teodor Sigaev, Oleg Ivanov and I were in Ottawa, Canada on the PGCon 2017 conference. Also Alexander Kukushkin (Zalando) joined and spent a lot of time with us. I'm still having a jet lag (in my case second day is always the worst one …