PostgreSQL for Pythonistas.

PostgreSQL is a fantastic database with support for many features not found in other open source databases. This talk will show you how to use some of the more interesting and unique capabilities of PostgreSQL.

Learn how to use advanced column types and how they map to python, how to query an external non-SQL database from PostgreSQL (with SQL) and how to write stored procedures in Python, to implement logic within the database.

The rough outline of the talk will be:

• Introduction to myself and what I do.
• Quick PostgreSQL history lesson.
• Advanced PostgreSQL column types.
• Accessing external databases with foreign data wrappers.
• Using PLPython to write stored procedures.

This talk requires no previous experience of PostgreSQL but general experience with a RDMS would be useful.