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Calling all Postgres enthusiasts! Do you work with Postgres? Do you want to be more involved in the community? Share your learnings? Join our vibrant online community dedicated to PostgreSQL, the world’s most advanced open-source database. Whether you’re a seasoned expert or just starting out, this group provides a space to discuss, learn, and share your knowledge about PostgreSQL and related technologies.
Our virtual meetups are designed to be engaging and interactive, featuring 1 hour long meetings that encourage active participation from the audience. Connect with PostgreSQL enthusiasts worldwide, collaborate, and explore the latest tips, tricks, and best practices in the field.
Our virtual meetups are designed to be engaging and interactive, featuring 1-hour long talks that encourage active participation from the audience. Each meeting has an introduction section, technical talk(s), and discussion. Connect with PostgreSQL enthusiasts worldwide, collaborate, and explore the latest tips, tricks, and best practices in the field.
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Upcoming events (2)
See all- Troubleshoot Slow Queries Using Postgres EXPLAIN VisualizationsLink visible for attendees
Working with query plans in Postgres can be a huge help to improve query performance. EXPLAIN plans themselves can be confusing and hard to understand. There’s now several query plan tools that can help make sense of things and some even offer advice for next steps to take for improving query performance.
Michael Christofides will be at Postgres Meetup for All this month to talk about EXPLAIN plan visualization tools. He recently published a popular blog post about explain tools: https://www.pgmustard.com/blog/postgres-query-plan-visualization-tools. Michael is an expert at EXPLAIN and wrote a planner tool (also his business) called pgMustard.
This meeting will be a presentation about EXPLAIN tools and we’ll get to work hands on with them. Michael will give us some query plans to work with as we go through this session. We’re also open to a BYOQ (Bring Your Own Query) if you have something you want to test out with the group.
- 10 Costly Database Performance Mistakes (and How to Fix Them)Link visible for attendees
Andrew Atkinson works hands on with Ruby on Rails and Postgres performance. He even wrote a book about it. Andrew is gearing up to present a talk at Railsconf next month about performance mistakes and he’s going to dry run his in-person talk with us. Andrew’s talk is aimed at developers working with Rails and ActiveRecord ORM - but the topics are evergreen for all developers working with Postgres.
This will be a chance to learn about Postgres performance and offer Andrew feedback for his in person talk. We’ll have a 30 minute talk from Andrew that kicks off at the top of the hour and then time for group discussion about the performance topics. We’d love to have you join us.
