This document is a drinkers guide to PostgreSQL that provides reasons why one might need a drink related to working with PostgreSQL. Some reasons include someone telling you that PostgreSQL is hard to install, having issues with pg_hba.conf configuration, bloating the database, being forced to use an iSCSI solution, having patches rejected by Tom Lane, accidentally shutting down or killing the production database, discovering that the database has 100,000 tables, issues with pg_upgrade, having to use MySQL, encountering exceptions, and giving lightning talks. The guide concludes by thanking the audience and providing contact details for the author.

1. The drinkers guide to
PostgreSQL
Aaron Thul
I am just here to drink and don’t really know anything

3. Do we need to
• Application developers
• Managers
• Our own mistakes
• Do we really need a reason???

4. Someone told you Pg
was hard to install

5. Someone told you Pg
was hard to install

6. DELETE FROM <tbl>

7. DELETE FROM <tbl>

8. Someone is having a
pg_hba.conf problem

9. Someone is having a
pg_hba.conf problem

10. Someone bloated the
bejeebers out of the
database

11. Someone bloated the
bejeebers out of the
database

12. Management forced an
iSCSI solution

13. Management forced an
iSCSI solution

14. Tom Lane rejected your
patch

15. Tom Lane rejected your
patch

16. Someone Shutdown/
killed production

17. Someone Shutdown/
killed production

18. You realize your DB
has 100,000 tables

19. You realize your DB
has 100,000 tables

20. You tried to use
Pg_Upgrade

21. You tried to use
Pg_Upgrade

22. You had to use MySQL

23. You had to use MySQL

24. Exceptions

25. Shawarma

26. Lightening Talk

27. Lightening Talk
• One bottle of Scotch

28. Thank you
• Aaron Thul
• aaron@chasingnuts.com
• @aaronthul on Twitter
• AaronThul on IRC