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Chris Travers
Principal Consultant, Stormatics
Professional Biography
Chris has been involved in PostgreSQL since 1999 in a wide variety of roles. He has contributed to the community through advocacy and even code. Since 2015 he has been specializing in large PostgreSQL databases and distributed data environments on the platform.
Sessions
PostgreSQL, Sovereignty, and the New Economic World
This talk explores the changing landscape of industry particularly in Asia and the role of PostgreSQL in it using the framework of the Industrial Revolution 4.0, resource sovereignty, and the role of data in the new economy. This talk summarizes for this discussion how geopolitics and geoeconomics are changing, different trends in production and distribution and how technologies like PostgreSQL allow these trends to progress. These include realtime logistics, small-batch manufacturing, and internet of things workloads.
Write PostgreSQL Extensions in C
This workshop will cover the basics of writing PostgreSQL extensions in C including data types and and aggregates. In particular this workshop covers: 1. How to think about C in extensions and integrating with the PostgreSQL codebase 2. Memory management in PostgreSQL and how to use this in your extensions 3. Creating your own data types 4. Creating your own aggregates in C 5. How to safely test your code to ensure common cases are not hit.