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Contributions for the week 37

Miles Richardson presented the WarehousePG project (an open source Greenplum fork) at the Apache Iceberg™ Europe Community Meetup in London, September 8. Watch the recording: youtu.be/lz6w9W1Ubps?si=upETJvoKD_zuHL0R

PGDay UK took place, September 9, at the Cavendish Conference Center.

Organizers:

• Chris Ellis
• Devrim Gunduz
• Dave Page

Talk Selection Committee:

• Ayse Bilge Ince
• Dave Pitts
• Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek
• Alastair Turner (chair, voting)

Volunteers:

• Dave Pitts (room host)
• Floor Drees (Code of Conduct team, room host)
• Vik Fearing (registration)
• Magnus Hagander (registration)

Speakers:

• Bruce Momjian - Future Postgres Challenges
• Andrew Farries – Postgres schema migrations using the expand/contract pattern Andrew Farries
• Michael Banck – PostgreSQL Performance Tuning
• Marta Palandri - Serving Literary Knowledge as Data: Building and Documenting DH APIs with PostgreSQL
• Ellyne Phneah – Explaining PostgreSQL Like I’m Five (or 85)
• Jan Karremans – PostgreSQL Certification – The PostgreSQL Way
• Mehmet Yılmaz – Adaptive Partitioning: Balancing OLTP & OLAP with Citus
• Jimmy Angelakos – Row-Level Security sucks. Can we make it usable?

The PostgreSQL UG NL meetup took place September 11, at the Lunatech offices in Rotterdam. Stefan Fercot and Chris Ellis delivered talks on PgBouncer and the (mis)use of some Postgres features respectively, and there were lightning talks by Jan Karremans (on the Open Alliance for PostgreSQL Education), Josef Machytka (on the credativ-pg-migrator project), and Kaarel Moppel (on pgbadger alternative pgweasel).

PGDay Lowlands took place September 12 at the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo.

Organizers:

• Boriss Mejias
• Derk van Veen
• Floor Drees
• Nico Rikken
• Teresa Lopes
• Sarah Conway
• Stacy Raspopina

Talk Selection Committee:

• Teresa Lopes (chair, voting)
• Carole Arnaud
• Chris Ellis
• Gerard Zuidweg
• Emma Saroyan

Volunteers:

• Jos van Schouten (Code of Conduct team)

Speakers:

• Jimmy Angelakos – How Do We Get Postgres to the Next Level?
• Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek – Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL
• Josef Machytka – Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL
• Chris Ellis – Fun With UUIDs
• Johannes Paul – Actual trees, not b-trees – or how I found PostgreSQL through
• Dirk Krautschick – Beyond Postgres - Insights about the PostgreSQL
• Valeria Alexandra Haro Valle – Courting Mongo, committing to Postgres: Our data love story!!
• Andreas Scherbaum – What I learned interviewing the PostgreSQL Community

Lightning Talks:

• ShivaDeep Gundoju – How Far Did Oracle Come? Kubernetes Operator!!!
• Cornelia Biacsics – The PostgreSQL village
• Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar – PostgreSQL Compatibility Index
• Derk van Veen – Public speaking as an introvert

Debate participants:

• Dmitry Fomin
• Emrah Becer
• Jonathan Battiato
• Matt Cornillon
• Gianni Ciolli
• Guy Gyles
• Luigi Nardi
• Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar

Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar published a blog post highlighting Slack and Telegram chats contributions.

Medium-sized PostgreSQL Google Summer of Code projects are successfully completed! Mentees are:

• Ahmad Gouda; Mentors: Akshat Jaimini, Pavlo Golub
• Gaurav Patidar; Mentors: Pavlo Golub, Rajiv Harlalka
• Mankirat Singh; Mentors: David Wheeler, Pavlo Golub