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Contributions for the week of 2025-05-05 (Week 19)

An Vercammen, Gregory Gioffredi and Wim Bertels organized PGConf.BE 2025, with help from Vera Demaiter and Aimée Lynn Backiel.

Speakers are:

• Teresa Lopes,
• Guy Gyles,
• Emrah Becer,
• Mayuresh Bagayatkar,
• Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek,
• Boriss Mejías,
• Gianni Ciolli,
• Martín Marqués,
• Stefan Fercot,
• Dwarka Rao

May 7 the Postgres Extensions Ecosystem Mini-Summit #4 hosted CloudNativePG maintainer Gabriele Bartolini, to talk about Improving the PostgreSQL Extensions Experience in Kubernetes with CloudNativePG (recording, transcript).

Andreas Kretschmer, Andreas Scherbaum, Andreas Schmitz, Daniel Westermann, Danilo Endesfelder, Julia Gugel, and Kai Wagner organized PGConf.DE 2025.

With volunteer help from:

• Andreas Froede,
• Christoph Moench-Tegeder,
• Cornelia Biacsics,
• Devrim Gündüz,
• Dirk C. Aumueller,
• Ellyne Phneah,
• Floor Drees,
• Franck Pachot,
• Jan Wieremjewicz,
• Jim Jones,
• Johannes Paul,
• Julian Markwort,
• Mathias Franz,
• Matthis Gördel,
• Michael Banck,
• Oleksii Kliukin,
• Pavlo Golub,
• Priyanka Chatterjee,
• Tim Westermann.

Call for Papers Committee:

• Floor Drees,
• Gianni Ciolli,
• Laurenz Albe,
• Olga Kalinina,
• Valeria Kaplan.

Speakers:

• Derk van Veen,
• Teresa Lopes,
• Valeria Kaplan,
• Bernd Patolla,
• Josef Machytka,
• Sergey Dudoladov,
• Dirk Krautschick,
• Torsten Steinbach,
• András Váczi,
• Evan Hunter Stanton,
• Daniel Westermann,
• Stefan Fercot,
• Gianni Ciolli, Lætitia AVROT,
• Christoph Berg,
• Jakob Shimony,
• Chris Ellis,
• Fabiana Scala,
• Nacho Mas,
• Peter Eisentraut,
• Raoul Illyés,
• Caspar Moritz Klein,
• Xenia Kukushkina,
• Laurenz Albe,
• Stefanie Janine Stölting,
• Theodor Herlo,
• Bilge Ince,
• Boriss Mejias,
• Ellyne Phneah,
• Michael Banck,
• Maik Sandmann,
• Franck Pachot,
• Emre Baransel,
• Utku Demir,
• Hervé Schweitzer,
• Devrim Gündüz, Álvaro Herrera,
• Monica Sarbu,
• Björn Sammet, Alexander Kukushkin,
• Daria Nikolaenko,
• Tudor Golubenco,
• Polina Bungina,
• Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek,
• Priyanka Chatterjee,
• Hans-Jürgen Schönig,
• Divya Sharma,
• Patrick Stählin,
• Haralampos Gavriilidis,
• Alexander Wirt,
• Andreas Scherbaum.

Lightning talks

• Boriss Mejias - PGDay Lowlands,
• Mauricio Zambrano- Choosing a k8s PostgreSQL operator,
• Julian Markwort - Make DB fast again - Taking trains on time to a Postgres conference,
• Derk van Veen - UUID7 as the perfect partitioning key data type,
• Jonas Marasus - War Story How Big Is Too Big For a Schema,
• Stefan Halfpap - Hands-On PostgreSQL Demonstrations for Teaching and Learning,
• Lars Karbo - OpenTelemetry,
• Bernd Helmle - Make Btree_Gist Faster,
• Diego Calvo de No Jan Karremans Valeria Valeria - Open Alliance,
• Kai Wagner - Unlocking security by encrypting your PostgreSQL
• Thorsten Reimers - PostgreSQL for Java Applications Using a JDBC Proxy copy,
• Devrim Gündüz - State of the PostgreSQL RPMs, Patrick Stählin - pg_stat_ddl,
• Ellyne Phneah - Explaining PostgreSQL like I’m 5 or 85

Xata.io organised the “Woman in PostgreSQL Breakfast” during PGConf.DE 2025

Official launch of a new community-driven initiative “The Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education” which was founded to build a transparent, open and independent certification program for PostgreSQL.