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Power use of Indexes in PostgreSQL - A user perspective

Event: Postgres Conference Virtual

Dates: 5 January 2021 – 14 December 2021

Presentation: 30 November 2021 , 11:30 PM

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Link: On event website

Speaker: Jobin Augustine

There have been many presentations about the Different Indexes in PostgreSQL ( B-Tree, HASH, GIN, GiST etc), especially from the architecture perspective. But these talks always lacked details from the user perspective on the selection of indexes. It is common to see that architects and developers fail to select the right types of index and the way it should be used. Just an overview of all types of indexes also won’t help much in decision making.

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Power use of Indexes in PostgreSQL - A user perspective

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Jobin Augustine

Jobin Augustine

Jobin Augustine is a PostgreSQL expert and Open Source advocate and has more than 19 years of working experience as consultant, architect, administrator, writer, and trainer in PostgreSQL, Oracle and other database technologies. He has always been an active participant in the Open Source communities and his main focus area is database performance and optimization. He is a contributor to various Open Source Projects and is an active blogger and loves to code in C++ and Python. Jobin holds a Masters in Computer Applications and joined Percona in 2018 as a Senior Support Engineer. Prior to joining Percona, he worked at OpenSCG for 2 years as Architect and was part of the BigSQL core team, a complete PostgreSQL distribution offering. Previous to his work at OpenSCG, Jobin worked at Dell as Database Senior Advisor for 10 years and 5 years with TCS/CMC.

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