PostgreSQL Portability Tales with Thomas Munro

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PostgreSQL runs on many operating systems. I'm going to talk about a selection of interesting differences between them, and thing we have done or could to in the future to make things better. Mostly focusing on Linux and FreeBSD, with some discussion of macOS and Windows, and some passing mentions of the other BSDs, illumos and some ancient commercial Unix history. Topics include memory, I/O, IPC and management.

Speaker:
Thomas Munro
PostgreSQL hacker and committer. In his spare time he has also been known to hack on FreeBSD, where he recently became a committer-in-training.

On PostgreSQL, Thomas has worked on parallel hash joins, a shared memory allocator and various other parallel query infrastructure, trigger transition tables, and many smaller projects. On FreeBSD, humble contributions so far include setproctitlefast() and PROCPDEATHSIG_CTL, but Thomas has a long shopping list of future improvements.

Thanks to our sponsor Cybertec (https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/pl/) for providing us with zoom license.