Elizabeth Garrett Christensen

5 videos · 5 events · 2022–2026 · 2h 30m of video

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Big Bad World of Postgres Dev Environments

DjangoCon US 2025 · November 6, 2025

A useful Postgres development database should resemble production in schema, configuration, indexes, extensions, and enough data to test realistic queries, without exposing production itself or sensitive information. Elizabeth Garrett Christensen compares simple local installs, Docker-based setups, and cloud database copies, and describes using template databases,…

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A Guided Tour Through Postgres Internals

DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024

Elizabeth Garrett Christensen gives a practical tour of PostgreSQL’s command-line tools and internal statistics. She explains how to use `psql` to inspect connections, roles, databases, tables, columns, sizes, settings, and the SQL behind convenience commands, while noting that GUI tools can provide much of the…

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