Paul Copplestone

About the Speaker

• Tell us about yourself: career, family, passions

  I'm the CEO and cofounder of Supabase. We are the Postgres Developer platform that makes it incredibly easy to build applications and websites with Postgres.

About the Talk

• What will your talk be about, exactly? Why this topic?

  Everything you want to know about Postgres Row Level Security. We heavily promote the use of RLS at Supabase, pairing it with PostgREST for a database-centric developer workflow. Over the past few years we've learned many of the do's and dont's of RLS.

About PostgreSQL

• What advice would you give to someone starting their journey with PostgreSQL?

  Use Supabase.

• PostgreSQL is open-source, did that ever help you in anyway and how?

  Supabase employs several Postgres maintainers, as well as contributing to the ecosystem in general. We develop PostgREST and various popular extensions like pg_graphql, index_advisor, and pg_jsonschema.

• If you had a magic wand, what single thing would you change in PostgreSQL as it is today?

  I'd love to see better support for Pluggable Storage, similar to MySQL. With more development of the Table Access Method API, I think Postgres can become a more ubiquitous query engine for more specialized use-cases.