Speaker Interview with Amit Langote
- Postgres Partitioning: How Far We've Come
- Thursday 09:30
- Washington
- Could you briefly introduce yourself?
- I’m a software engineer living as an expat in Tokyo, Japan. I have been involved in the PostgreSQL community for a little over 6 years now, which is about how long I have been in the industry.
- How do you engage with the PostgreSQL Community?
- I am actively involved in the development of community PostgreSQL. I also occasionally participate in conferences.
- Have you enjoyed previous pgconf.eu or FOSDEM conferences, either as an attendee or as speaker?
- This will be my first PGConf.EU, however I have attended FOSDEM 2019, where I had my first taste of Europe.
- What will your talk be about, exactly? Why this topic?
- I am going to talk about partitioning, both conceptually and about how its implementation in PostgreSQL has evolved over the years. I chose this topic mostly because I feel somewhat comfortable talking about it after being involved in the development of declarative partitioning in recent releases. I also hope to learn what users think of and expect from partitioning.
- What is the audience for your talk?
- Anyone who is interested in hearing a little bit more about partitioning in PostgreSQL than what they already might know.
- What existing knowledge should the attendee have?
- It would help if they have worked with databases and pondered using partitioning.
- What is the one feature in PostgreSQL 12 which you like most?
- Pluggable storage interface.
- Which other talk at this year's conference would you like to see?
- There are many really, but this one in particular: “Beyond the pushdowns – distributed query planning and execution”.