Translation. Region: Russian Federation –
Source: Novosibirsk State University –
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PGConf is the largest annual conference held by Postgres Professional, a Russian developer of database management systems (DBMS) and other data products. Developers and administrators present their developments and best practices for using the system. One of the topics of discussion is the object-relational database management system PostgreSQL. This year, Anton Chumak, a fourth-year student, participated in the conference. Faculty of Information Technology, NSU.
"At the conference, I talked about my patch for PostgreSQL, which adds composite parameters to the configuration system. A patch is a set of changes made to the codebase. I wrote some code that I'm adding to the existing code, and this code changes the program's behavior. Since PostgreSQL is an open system developed by a global, international community of developers, I can't simply add my code as if it were a personal project; I have to take it through multiple stages of community approval. So, I created the patch and contributed it to the community," said Anton Chumak.
At the conference, Anton presented a paper titled "How to Easily Configure Parameters of Complex Types." Prior to this, he spent six months working on a project within the PGLab database management systems lab, which opened this year at the NSU Faculty of Information Technology in collaboration with Postgres Professional. The results of his work became the topic of his thesis.
"My thesis is about implementing composite data types into the PostgreSQL configuration system. The result of my work is a patch that I'm contributing to the vanilla version. Vanilla is the open-source community version of PostgreSQL. But I also plan to implement these changes in Post Group's commercial product," Anton explained.
The conference was attended by over 1,400 participants and 36 speakers—all of them high-level specialists, database administrators, architects, developers, testers, and IT managers.
"Conferences like these feature people with cutting-edge ideas, and hearing about their work is invaluable. I was particularly interested in Anton Doroshkevich's presentation, Project Manager at InfoSoft, on information security and how to properly protect data. I generally enjoy the topic of PostgreSQL compilers and optimizers, and it was interesting to learn something new from the presentations by Postgres specialists," Anton shared.
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