A Walking Tour of PostgreSQL

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Video of a conference talk about the history of PostgreSQL presented by Thomas Munro at POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2024. I’ll talk about the origins and history of PostgreSQL and the POSTGRES research project it descends from; how it fits into the space of databases; and how it fits into the space of open source projects. I’ll show how hundreds of open source developers and companies collaborate to make PostgreSQL. I’ll talk about a couple of projects on my own journey from long-time user through to full-time developer and committer. And how anyone with an itch to scratch is welcome to get involved. Let’s go on a walking tour of PostgreSQL together!

Thomas is a PostgreSQL developer and committer based in New Zealand. He began working full time on PostgreSQL and related technologies about 9 years ago, first at EnterpriseDB and now Microsoft. Before that he worked with Unix and relational databases in the web, finance and software industries for a couple of decades. Some of his PostgreSQL interests include query parallelism, taming resource management, transaction machinery, portability, and modernizing database/operating system interfaces. Thomas’s other interests include hacking on the FreeBSD operating system, trying to learn other languages and trying to ride various forms of transport with wheels and fins.

Chapters:
00:00 – Intro to speaker & topic
00:40 – What is PostgreSQL
03:49 – Origin and context
08:54 – Open Source PostgreSQL
10:00 – Relational database time chart
12:15 – The modern PostgreSQL project
15:30 – How Thomas got involved with Postgres
17:39 – Many specializations within on project

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Presenters:
Thomas Munro, PostgreSQL hacker working at Microsoft

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