postgres-contrib.org | Contributions to the PostgreSQL Project

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-11-18 (Week 47 overview)

Floor Drees | Nov. 26, 2024 | Category: contributions

Rushabh Lathia was interviewed as “PostgreSQL Person of the Week”
Markus Winand updated the modern-sql.com website, it now includes all the PostgreSQL v17 features.
Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek organized the Prague November Meetup. Tudor Golubenco and Noémi Ványi spoke. Slides are available here. Gulcin also wrote a blog posting about the event.
Five PostgreSQL contributors completed this 20th year of Google Summer Of Code:
- pgmoneta: WAL infrastructure by Shahryar Soltanpour under mentoring…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-11-11 (Week 46 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Nov. 18, 2024 | Category: contributions

November 12th: Katherine Saar, Stacey Haysler and Christophe Pettus hosted an online meetup for PostgreSQL San Francisco Area User Group, "Be Thankful: Logical Replication traps you did not fall into", presented by Kacey Holston.
November 12th: Floor Drees published an episode for the "Hacking Postgres" podcast S3E2 (Apple/Spotify) interviewing Heikki Linnakangas and blogged about it.
November 14th: Elizabeth Christensen hosted an online meetup for the PostgresMeetup for All, where Arka Gangul…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-11-04 (Week 45 overview)

Boriss Mejías | Nov. 11, 2024 | Category: contributions

PGConf.Brazil 2024 was held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on November 7th-8th. It was organized by:
- Kenia Galiego
- Danielle Monteiro
- Euler Taveira
- Fernando Franquini
- Lucio Chiessi
- William Ivanski
The Call for Papers committee was formed by:
- Fabio Telles
- Gerdan Santos
- Glauco Torres
- Kenia Galiego
- Luciane Pinheiro
On 6th of November, the Copenhagen PostgreSQL User Group held a meetup where Luigi Nardi presented DBTune.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-10-28 (Week 44 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Nov. 4, 2024 | Category: contributions

PGConf.EU 2024, held in Athens from October 22-25, was the biggest PostgreSQL event in the world yet! It was organized by:
- Andreas Scherbaum
- Chris Ellis
- Dave Page
- Ilya Kosmodemiansky
- Jimmy Angelakos
- Karen Jex
- Magnus Hagander
- Tomas Vondra
- Valeria Kaplan
The Call for Papers Committee for PGConf.EU 2024:
- Afsane Anand
- Andreas Karlsson
- Derk van Veen
- Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek
- Stefan Fercot
The Code of Conduct Committee for PGConf.EU 2024:
- Ilya Kosmodemiansky
- Pavlo Golub
- Stacey Haysler
The fol…

📰 Introducing postgres-contrib.org and the PostgreSQL Event Calendar at PGConf.EU Lightning Talks

Pavlo Golub | Nov. 2, 2024 | Category: news

Floor Drees and Andreas Scherbaum took the stage during the PGConf.EU lightning talks to present postgres-contrib.org and the PostgreSQL Event Calendar!
Slides are here.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-10-21 (Week 43 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Oct. 30, 2024 | Category: contributions

On October 22nd the Extensions Ecosystem Summit took place, as an unofficial side event of PGConf EU in Athens. Supported by Tembo, Percona, Xata, and Timescale, 5 speakers shared their (experience working on) extensions, followed by an open space / contribution fest meant to attract new contributors to the projects. The speakers who donated their time:
- Jimmy Angelakos - pg_statviz
- Adam Hendel (Tembo) - pgmq
- Alastair Turner (Percona) - pg_tde
- Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek (Xata) - pgzx
- James Sewell…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-10-14 (Week 42 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Oct. 29, 2024 | Category: contributions

On October 15th, Paul Jungwirth presented temporal INSERT at the Chicago PostgreSQL User Group (PUG) meetup. You can find the recording and write-up here.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-10-07 (Week 41 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Oct. 12, 2024 | Category: contributions

Claire Giordano hosted Tom Lane on the Talking Postgres podcast on Wed Oct 10th.
Robert Haas hosted the October Hacking Workshop.
Teresa Giacomini, Isaac Alves, My Nguyen produced the Activity Book for Postgres v4 with advice from Ariana Padilla Acosta, Adam Wolk, Derk van Veen, Boriss Mejias, and several others.
Katharine Saar organized and hosted the San Francisco Bay Area PUG meeting on October 8, 2024, "Leveraging a PL/RUST Extension to Protect Sensitive Data" with Rajan Palanivel.
Kim Jan…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-09-30 (Week 40 overview)

Floor Drees | Oct. 7, 2024 | Category: contributions

Dirk Krautschick and Christian Gohmann organized the 3. PostgreSQL User Group NRW MeetUp. Christoph Mönch-Teggeder and Christoph Berg presented at the Meetup.
Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek organized the Prague PostgreSQL Meetup: September Edition. Adam Wolk and Mayuresh Bagayatkar (Slides) presented at the Meetup.
Andreas Scherbaum, Jonathan Katz, Mark Wong, Michael Alan Brewer, Mila Zhou and Pat Wright organized PGConf NYC 2024. Chelsea Dole, Daniel Gustafsson and Jonathan Katz selected the talks f…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-09-23 (Week 39 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Oct. 6, 2024 | Category: contributions

Melanie Plageman ran a mentorship feedback session and was the guest on episode 19 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-09-16 (Week 38 overview)

Pavlo Golub | Sept. 23, 2024 | Category: contributions

Floor Drees wrote an article, how the Postgres community migrated to Mastodon, and which tools can be used.
Elodie Jex (Instagram: elodie.s_art_) designed the three proposals for the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force, from which one was selected as the final logo.
The following people contributed to the translation of the press release for the upcoming PostgreSQL v17 version:
- Adrian Klaver
- Alicja Kucharczyk
- Andrea Farci
- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
- Andrew Atkinson
- Anna Uraskova
- Carlos Chapi
- Ca…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-09-09 (Week 37 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Sept. 15, 2024 | Category: contributions

Tomas Vondra held his first "PostgreSQL Office Hour" meeting. Details about the project are available here, "office hours" must be booked in advance.
PGDay UK 2024, which took place on September 11th in London, was made possible by the following people:
- Organising Committee:
- Program Committee: Dirk Krautschick, Divya Sharma, Greg Clough, Chris Ellis (chair, non-voting)
- Code of Conduct Committee: Floor Drees, Pavlo Golub, Sam Smith
The inaugural PGDay Lo…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-09-02 (Week 36 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Sept. 9, 2024 | Category: contributions

Sarah Conway organized a great community outreach campaign for Timescale's State of PostgreSQL survey for 2024, promoted by community partners:

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-08-26 (Week 35 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Sept. 2, 2024 | Category: contributions

Greg Sabino Mullane analyzed a year’s worth of pgsql-hackers traffic, deciphered the language used on that mailing list, and compiled a jargon file for newcomers: crunchydata.com/blog/understanding-the-postgres-hackers-mailing-list.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-08-19 (Week 34 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Aug. 30, 2024 | Category: contributions

The annual PgUS membership meeting was prepared and conducted by:
- Stacey Haysler (President)
- Mark Wong (Treasurer & Expo Committee)
- Michael Brewer (Secretary)
- Jonathan S. Katz (Director & Conference Committee)
- Elizabeth Garrett Christensen (Director)
- Chelsea Dole (Diversity Committee)
- Valeria Kaplan (User Group Committee)
- James Myers (Volunteer Coordinator)
- Katharine Saar (Membership Coordinator)
Talking Postgres Episode 18 was released. Host: Claire Giordano, guest: David Rowley, pr…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-08-12 (Week 33 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Aug. 18, 2024 | Category: contributions

The PGDay Lowlands CfP team (Afsane Anand, Carole Arnaud, Chris Ellis, Gerard Zuidweg, Boriss Mejias - Chair) has published the conference schedule.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-08-05 (Week 32 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Aug. 11, 2024 | Category: contributions

Andrew Atkinson’s book High Performance PostgreSQL for Rails has been published.
Robert Haas ran the first PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop.
Elizabeth Garrett Christensen is kicking off Postgres Meetup for All, a series of online meetups for PostgreSQL.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-07-29 (Week 31 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | Aug. 2, 2024 | Category: contributions

Chaired by Karen Jex, the PGConf.EU Program Committee (Afsane Anand, Andreas Karlsson, Derk van Veen, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, and Stefan Fercot) published the schedule for the 2024 conference.
- See Karen Jex’s excellent blog post: “Shining a Light on PGConf.EU 2024 Talk Selection”
Chris Ellis has revamped the PGConf.EU 2024 website and schedule with numerous look and feel, usability and accessibility fixes.
The CloudNativePG community has released the first Release Candidate of CloudNat…

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-07-22 (Week 30 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | July 30, 2024 | Category: contributions

PostgreSQL in Google Summer of Code:
- Akshat Jaimini passed midterm evaluation for project "RPC Sinks for PgWatch3" under mentoring of Pavlo Golub and Mark Wong
- Arjan Marku passed midterm evaluation for project "PostgreSQL JDBC Struct/Array Support" under mentoring of Dave Cramer and Mark Wong
Jimmy Angelakos released version 0.7 of extension pg_statviz with new features.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-07-15 (Week 29 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | July 24, 2024 | Category: contributions

Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek is organizing DivaConf in Turkey.
- x.com/apatheticmagpie/status/1813142104979177716
- github.com/gulcin/tech-conference-organizer
The PGDay.UK team (Dirk Krautschick, Divya Sharma, Greg Clough, Chris Ellis published the schedule for the 2024 conference.
David Wheeler introduced The PGXN RFC Book.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-07-08 (Week 28 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | July 10, 2024 | Category: contributions

Robert Haas outlines plans to start a mentoring program for code contributors.
Claire Giordano started the "Talking Postgres" podcast with help from Ariana Padilla Acosta and Aaron Wislang.

🌟 Contributions for the week of 2024-06-24 (Week 26 overview)

Jimmy Angelakos | July 10, 2024 | Category: contributions

Günce Sarıkaya and Akshata Shinde are organizing the Berlin PostgreSQL Meetup in July.
David Wheeler initiated a discussion around distributing binaries for extensions.
Robert Haas plans to start a mentoring program for code contributors.
Peter Eisentraut and David Wheeler, with help from others, worked on a document for API and ABI stability in PostgreSQL.
Marion Baumgartner, Tobias Bussmann, Andreas Geppert, Michelle von Känel, Stefan Keller, Stephan Wagner and Daniel Westermann organized Sw…

📰 Announcing postgres-contrib.org!

Jimmy Angelakos | July 9, 2024 | Category: news

Welcome to postgres-contrib.org, a new website by members of the PostgreSQL community, highlighting contributions to the project by the amazing people standing behind it.

Many contributions to and for the PostgreSQL Project happen outside of writing code. This was the topic of the Increase Community Participation session at PGConf.dev 2024.

The list above is likely not complete. If you spot something which is worth noticing, please contact us, either by email or on Telegram in the PostgreSQL So…