Debugging with PostgreSQL – A Strategic Approach

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Debugging with PostgreSQL – A Strategic Approach

The Philly PostgreSQL Meetup is holding an all day conference at the Wharton School in Philadelphia, July 19th, 2019. I will be giving my talk Debugging with PostgreSQL – A Strategic Approach at 11am.

Description:

Depending on the project, debugging can take 50 to 90% of development time. But it usually gets less than 10% of the press. PostgreSQL has great tools for debugging, but they are most effective when deployed as part of an overall strategy.

We will look at strategies for debugging PostgreSQL: how to find bugs, how to fix them, and how to keep them from happening in the first place.

We’ll look at root causes, technical tricks, and scientific strategies, and why — even if you can’t always write perfect code — it is usually a good idea to try.

We’ll hear from Bjarne Stroustrup, Sherlock Holmes, Kernighan and Ritchie, Pogo, & the experts of the PostgreSQL community.

Goal: less time debugging, more time building great tools and apps that stay up & get the job done.

Comments:

I’ll be doing this talk at FOSSCON 2019 as well. That will be Saturday August 17th, 2019.

While I’ve definitely built this for PostgreSQL, it turns out that most of the debugging advice is applicable not just to PostgreSQL but to database in general, and not just to databases, but to most programming langauges.

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