Álvaro Herrera is a PostgreSQL contributor and committer. He authored autovacuum, background workers, BRIN indexes, commit timestamps, savepoints, shared row locking, and some partitioning features. Álvaro co-authored DDL-event triggers, MERGE, XMLTABLE, \crosstabview. He also shepherded thousands of patches from other people into open source PostgreSQL.

Álvaro has more than 20 years of experience writing new PostgreSQL features and his code appears in all supported major releases and is used in millions of servers around the world.

Your database is corrupt? Álvaro can fix it.