Slides based on my talk at the All Things Open conference, held in Raleigh, North Carolina. This talk covers some basic history on Postgres, new features in the 9.3 release, and some thoughts on what might be in the future for Postgres.

1. Past, Present, and Pachyderm
/ Robert Treat
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2. Hello
@robtreat2
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3. whoami?
COO @ OMNITI
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web services, OmniTI is the leading cross-disciplinary
provider of consulting, development, and operational
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4. whoami?
Postgres 6.x
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5. whoami?
Major Contributor
advocacy, tools, web
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6. Past
Postgres
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7. Past
Major Themes
open source
extensibility
data safety
SQL
“bsd” licensed
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8. Past
Berkely POSTGRES
Postgres95
PostgreSQL (6.x)
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9. Past
7.0 - Foreign Keys
7.1 - WAL, Outer Joins
7.2 - Non-Blocking Vacuum
7.3 - Schemas
7.4 - Aggregates
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10. Past
8.0 - Windows, Point-In-Time Recovery
8.1 - autovacuum, partitioning
8.2 - warm standby
8.3 - remove xid wrap issue for read only work flow
8.4 - Windowing Functions / CTE / Recursive
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11. Past
9.0 - Streaming Replication / Hot Standby
9.1 - FDW, synch-rep
9.2 - cascading slaves, index oriented scans
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12. Present
What’s New In 9.3?
ASIDE: I will be speaking on this topic at PGConf.EU next week in Dublin. If you are there please come and say hi.
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13. Present
What’s New In 9.3?
September 9th, 2013
ASIDE: I will be speaking on this topic at PGConf.EU next week in Dublin. If you are there please come and say hi.
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14. Present
materialized views
combining rule definitions of view (for updating) with heap
properties of a table (used by planner)
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15. Present
updatable views
views that reference some set of columns from a single base
table are now updatable by default.
more complex views can be made updatable using INSTEAD
OF triggers or INSTEAD rules.
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16. Present
LATERAL Queries
SELECT
customer_id, rentals
FROM
customer c,
LATERAL(select count(distinct(rental_date)) as rentals
from rental where customer_id = c.customer_id) as x
WHERE
store_id = 1
ORDER BY rentals desc LIMIT 5
first_name | last_name | rentals
------------+-----------+--------ELEANOR
| HUNT
|
46
MARCIA
| DEAN
|
42
CLARA
| SHAW
|
42
TIM
| CARY
|
39
DAISY
| BATES
|
38
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17. Present
Postgres FDW
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18. Present
Foreign Data Wrappers
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csv
oracle
mysql
redis
mongodb
odbc
hadoop
twitter

19. Present
Postgres FDW
• access remote postgres databases
• supports remote cost estimates
• basic qual pushdown support
• reference implementation
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20. Present
writeable FDW
• ability to write to foreign tables
• insert / update / delete
• transaction aware(!)
• speed can still be an issue
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21. Present
improved FK locking
OLD:
• UPDATE to parent required “for update” row lock
• UPDATE to child required “for share” row lock
NEW:
• UPDATE to parent of non-keys == “for no-key update”
• UPDATE to child == “for key share”
no blocking unless a foreign-key column is changed
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22. Present
“timeline switching”
allows streaming replicants (slaves)
to follow new primary nodes (masters)
without need for log shipping
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23. Present
JSON
• Add operators and functions to extract
elements from JSON values
• Allow JSON values to be converted into
records
• Add functions to convert scalars, records,
and hstore values to JSON
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24. Present
JSON
• json_agg(anyrecord) -> json
• to_json(any) -> json
• hstore_to_json(hstore) -> json (also used as a cast)
• hstore_to_json_loose(hstore) -> json
• SELECT b->’f1’AS f1, b->’f3’AS f3 FROM aa WHERE a = 1
• json_each, json_each_text
• json_extract_path, json_extract_path_text
• json_object_keys
• json_populate_record, json_populate_recordset
• json_array_length
• json_array_elements
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25. Present
background worker processes
allows users to build custom background processes
access to C code level constructs
access to shared memory
use backend database connections
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26. Present
background worker processes
allows users to build custom background processes
access to C code level constructs
access to shared memory
use backend database connections
disconnect idle connections
custom statistics / logging
automated reindex / cluster
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27. Present
“mongres”
background workers listening for mongo wire protocol
storage and interaction with json data
https://github.com/umitanuki/mongres
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28. Pachyderm
Market Trends
*CLOUD*
aws
joyent
etc...
chef
puppet
etc...
best practices:
bad i/o
nodes go away
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distributed
system?

29. Pachyderm
Market Trends
*NoSQL*
200+ Options == Operational Overload
SQL-like languages being added
specialized use cases
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30. Pachyderm
Market Trends
*BIG DATA*
Scaling Postgres : 10TB
workload vs hardware
federation aka “sharding”
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31. Pachyderm
Market Trends
*BIG DATA*
BIG is not about size :: “Business Impact Generating”
Data Analytics <=> Advanced SQL
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32. Pachyderm
9.4 / 9.5
logical replication
master-master replication
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33. Pachyderm
What Should We Be Working On?
Fault Tolerance
Column Store
Analytics
GUI’s
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34. Thanks!
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