postgres-contrib.org | Contributions to the PostgreSQL Project

🌟 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 …

🌟 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. Chel…

🌟 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
- And…

🌟 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 Commi…

🌟 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 Episo …

🌟 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 CloudNative …

🌟 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,…

📰 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, pleas…