Monday 3:15 p.m.–4 p.m.
Django 1.8/1.9 and PostgreSQL: An Ever-Closer Union
Christophe Pettus
- Audience level:
- Intermediate
- Category:
- Web Frameworks
Description
Django 1.8/1.9 adds a whole bunch of cool new features that are specifically designed for PostgreSQL. We'll take a quick tour through them, and show when and how you can use them in real-world applications. We'll also talk about how to get the best performance out of PostgreSQL when using the Django ORM.
Abstract
Django 1.8 introduced a large number of advanced PostgreSQL-specific features, and Django 1.9 extends them. We'll dive into them in detail, and explain why a developer might use them, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Among the features that we'll discuss are:
* Range fields and indexing
* UUIDs
* JSON fields
* Array fields
* HStore fields
... along with their supporting infrastructure.
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