Interview with CYBERTEC

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In which areas do you expect PostgreSQL to grow most and how does your company contribute to and benefit from that growth?

I believe that the strongest demand for PostgreSQL will come from big enterprises struggling to get rid of legacy database software such as Oracle, MS SQL and so on.

We provide all the tooling people will need to make the transition and to run things in the new infrastructure.

What makes your company a great place to work?

I believe that a lot boils down to experience. We have been in this sector for over 20 years and together we have hundreds of years of PostgreSQL experience.

Which of your company's contributions to the PostgreSQL Project (code/community/conference/sponsorship) are you most proud of?

We implemented a couple of tools which are now widely used in monitoring and clustering.

There are also various contributions to PostgreSQL core. The most recent patch I liked a lot was the ability to use EXPLAIN on queries containing placeholders.

What feature in the last PostgreSQL version benefits your company most?

This is hard to say. I think it is the unity of all features that make PostgreSQL so great.

Which feature is missing in PostgreSQL?

We need a more vectorized executor and column stores in core.

Which PostgreSQL extension do you benefit from most, and why?

I love pg_squeeze because it helps people to fight table bloat without downtime.

Why does your company attend PostgreSQL Conference Europe?

We love the flair, we love to meet with people.