What if you could turn
thousands of lines of code into
simple queries?

As a PostgreSQL Major Contributor, I sometimes get to speak at conferences. Here you will find the list of talks I’ve been doing, with the slides available as PDF.


PGDay FR 2014

Le PGDay France est un moment de rencontres et de conférence pour la communauté francophone de PostgreSQL. Les conférences s’adresses à tous les utilisateurs du logiciel : étudiants, administrateur systèmes, DBA, développeurs, chefs de Projets, décideurs, etc

Une présentation de pgloader, utilitaire de chargement de données qui prend égalemment en charge des migrations complètes depuis MySQL ou encore MS SQL Server™.


I wrote a book!


7th European Lisp Symposium

The purpose of the European Lisp Symposium is to provide a forum for the discussion and dissemination of all aspects of design, implementation and application of any of the Lisp and Lisp-inspired dialects, including Common Lisp, Scheme, Emacs Lisp, AutoLisp, ISLISP, Dylan, Clojure, ACL2, ECMAScript, Racket, SKILL, Hop and so on. We encourage everyone interested in Lisp to participate.

A lightning talk about pgloader and why I chose to rewrite it enterily, switching from Python to Common Lisp. TL;DR — I wanted a Modern Programming Language.


PGConf NYC 2014

PGConf US is a non-profit conference hosted run by the United States PostgreSQL Association. This conference is part of the effort to grow the PostgreSQL community by increasing awareness and providing the appropriate training and resources to further PostgreSQL adoption

The PostgreSQL for Developers talk begins with a simple use case for developers to solve entirely in SQL. Discover SQL window functions if you don’t know them already, and then see about advanced PostgreSQL stuff such as ranges.


Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014

Nordic PostgreSQL Day 2014 is an excellent chance to learn more about the worlds most advanced open source database. Whether you use PostgreSQL professionally, poke at it on your spare time or hack on the internals, Nordic PGDay will have something for you.

PostgreSQL is YeSQL! is a presentation that targets developers and show some advanced SQL everybody should be familiar with… but usually aren’t.


PostgreSQL FOSDEM 2014

PostgreSQL FOSDEM 2014 is an extension to the regular PostgreSQL devroom at FOSDEM, and cover topics for PostgreSQL users, developers and contributors, and anybody else interested in PostgreSQL

This talk is about Advanced Uses Cases for PostgreSQL Extensions. It shows how to use extensions to solve practical problems such as geolocation or text indexing for auto-completion.

Dimitri Fontaine

PostgreSQL Major Contributor

Open Source Software Engineer

France