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Yoann La Cancellera (Senior Support Engineer, Percona) will be presenting a talk Learning advanced data types, the reverse way at FOSDEM PGDay 2024 on February 2, 2024.

This repeatable demo will show how arrays with GIN indexes and LTREE structures can help optimize a concrete example from real public data

Usually, datatypes are introduced using textbook examples, starting with the datatype when there is not data yet. Here we will do the opposite: adapt those types to existing data to alleviate a limitation.

About the event.

FOSDEM PGDay 2024 is a one day conference that will be held ahead of the main FOSDEM event in Brussels, Belgium, on February 2nd, 2024. This will be a one-day PostgreSQL focused event with a single track of talks.

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