PostgreSQL Query Optimization

1. Why Optimize?2. Theory - Yes, We Need It!3. Even More Theory Algorithms4. Understanding Execution Plans5. Short Queries and Indexes6. Long Queries and Full Scans7. Long Queries: Additional Techniques8. Optimizing Data Modification9. Design Matters10. Application Development and Performance11. Functions12. Dynamic SQL13. Avoiding the Pitfalls of Object-Relational Mapping14. More Complex Filtering and Search15. Ultimate Optimization Algorithm
16. Conclusion

Henrietta Dombrovskaya is a database researcher and developer with over 35 years of academic and industrial experience. She holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Saint Petersburg, Russia. At present, she is Associate Director of Databases at Braviant Holdings, Chicago, Illinois. She is an active member of the PostgreSQL community, a frequent speaker at the PostgreSQL conference, and a local organizer of the Chicago PostgreSQL User Group. Her research interests are tightly coupled with practice and are focused on developing efficient interactions between applications and databases. She is a winner of the "Technologist of the Year" 2019 award of the Illinois Technology Association.
Boris Novikov is currently a professor in the Department of Informatics at National Research University Higher School of Economics in Saint Petersburg, Russia. He graduated from Leningrad University's School of Mathematics and Mechanics. He has worked for Saint Petersburg University for a number of years and moved to his current position in January, 2019. His research interests are in a broad area of information management and include several aspects of design, development, and tuning of databases, applications, and database management systems. He also has interests in distributed scalable systems for stream processing and analytics.
Anna Bailliekova is Senior Data Engineer at Zendesk. Previously, she built ETL pipelines, data warehouse resources, and reporting tools as a team lead on the Division Operations team at Epic. She has also held analyst roles on a variety of political campaigns and at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research. She received her undergraduate degree cum laude with College Honors in political science and computer science from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois.