postgres-contrib.org | PostgreSQL Contributionshttps://postgres-contrib.org/Weekly PostgreSQL contribution newsen-usTue, 07 Apr 2026 08:58:11 +0000Contributions for week 13, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/77/<p>The Prague PostgreSQL Meetup met on March 30, 2026, organized by Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek and Mayur B.</p> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Mayur B.</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Posts: </p> <ul> <li>Pat Wright about <a href="https://sqlasylum.wordpress.com/2026/04/06/nordic-pg-day-2026">Nordic Pg Day 2026</a> </li> </ul> <p>Community Videos:</p> <ul> <li>Pavlo Golub about <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/cybertec-postgresql_postgresql-scale23x-opensource-activity-7445378777142042624-RyBx">SCALE 23x</a></li> </ul>Tue, 07 Apr 2026 08:58:11 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/77/Contributions for week 12, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/76/<p>From March 23 to March 26, the following contributions were made to PostgreSQL at <a href="​​https://www.usenix.org/conference/srecon26americas">SREcon26 (Americas)</a>:</p> <p>PostgreSQL booth volunteers:</p> <ul> <li>Aya Griswold</li> <li>Erika Miller</li> <li>Gabrielle Roth</li> <li>Jennifer Scheuerell</li> <li>Umair Shahid</li> <li>Alex Wood</li> </ul> <p>PostgreSQL speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Clint Byrum</li> <li>Ben Dicken</li> <li>Umair Shahid</li> </ul> <p>On March 24, 2026 <a href="https://2026.nordicpgday.org/">Nordic PGDay 2026</a> took place in Helsinki, Finland. </p> <p>Organizers:</p> <ul> <li>Daniel Gustafsson</li> <li>Magnus Hagander</li> <li>Georgios Kokolatos</li> </ul> <p>Call for Paper Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Georgios Kokolatos</li> <li>Louise Leinweber</li> <li>Liisa Hämäläinen</li> <li>Thea Stark</li> </ul> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Mats Berglin</li> <li>Miguel Toscano</li> <li>Ants Aasma</li> <li>Alexander Kukushkin</li> <li>Henrietta Dombrovskaya</li> <li>Gianni Ciolli</li> <li>Chris Ellis</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> <li>Tomas Vondra</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> <li>James McDonald</li> <li>Nina Angelvik</li> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Pat Wright</li> <li>Ellyne Phneah</li> <li>Ryan Booz</li> </ul> <p>Volunteers:</p> <ul> <li>Boris Novikov</li> <li>Jesper St John</li> <li>Maija Linnakangas </li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Thea Stark</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://2026.pgday.paris/">PGDay Paris 2026</a> happened on Thursday March 26 in Paris, France, organized by: </p> <ul> <li>Carole Arnaud</li> <li>Hécate</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> </ul> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Luigi Nardi</li> <li>Marc Linster</li> <li>Daniel Westermann</li> <li>Derk van Veen</li> <li>Magnus Hagander</li> <li>Catherine Bouxin</li> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> <li>Damien Clochard</li> <li>Matt Cornillon</li> <li>Stéphane Schildknecht</li> <li>Sébastien Lardière</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Ryan Booz</li> <li>Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar</li> </ul> <p>Call for Paper Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Sarah Conway</li> <li>Valeria Kaplan</li> </ul> <p>Code of Conduct Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Erik de Ruiter</li> <li>Floor Drees</li> <li>Svitlana Lytvynenko</li> </ul> <p>Volunteers:</p> <ul> <li>Cedric Duprez</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Posts</p> <ul> <li>Henrietta Dombrovskaya: <a href="https://hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2026/03/29/prairie-postgres-second-developers-summit-and-why-you-should-participate/">Prairie Postgres Second Developers’ Summit and Why You Should Participate</a></li> <li>Cornelia Biacsics: <a href="https://cornelia-biacsics.medium.com/my-first-self-organized-postgresql-meetup-in-vienna-49445d7393a3">My First Self-Organized PostgreSQL Meetup in Vienna</a></li> </ul>Mon, 30 Mar 2026 07:31:13 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/76/Contributions for week 11, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/75/<p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-vienna/events/313553872/">PostgreSQL User Group Vienna</a> met for the very first time on Wednesday, March 18 2026, organised by Cornelia Biacsics. </p> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Ranjeet Kumar</li> <li>Jan Karremans</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> </ul> <p>On Thursday, March 19 2026, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/ams-db/events/313556586/">AMS DB</a> came together for talks and networking. </p> <p>Organised by:</p> <ul> <li>Floor Drees</li> <li>Jessie Tu</li> <li>Mattias Jonsson</li> <li>Daniël van Eeden</li> </ul> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Matthias van de Meent</li> <li>Martin Alderete</li> <li>León Castillejos</li> </ul> <p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-north-meetup-group/events/313342039/">PostgreSQL England North Meetup Group</a> met also for the very first time on Thursday, March 19 2026. It was organised by Daniel Chapman and Stephen Wood.</p> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Kate Gowron</li> <li>Lauro Ojeda</li> </ul> <p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-paris/events/313295669/">PostgreSQL User Group, Paris</a> met on Thursday, March 19 2026. </p> <p>Organised by: </p> <ul> <li>Sébastien DELOBEL</li> <li>Vincent Mercier</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> </ul> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Lætitia Avrot</li> <li>Vincent Mercier</li> </ul> <p>Claire Giorano and Aaron Wislang hosted and published a new podcast episode on March 20 2026, <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/building-postgres-services-on-azure-with-charles-feddersen">“Building Postgres Services on Azure with Charles Feddersen”</a> from the <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/">Talking Postgres</a> series. </p> <p><a href="https://pgdayarmenia.com/#speak">Program Committee for PGDay Armenia</a> has completed voting:</p> <ul> <li>Emma Saroyan (Voting Chair)</li> <li>Boriss Mejías</li> <li>Derk van Veen</li> <li>Dian Fay</li> <li>Floor Drees</li> <li>Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek</li> <li>Ilya Kosmodemiansky</li> <li>Laurenz Albe</li> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Posts:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://vyruss.org/blog/scale-23x-cloudnativepg-robust-self-healing-postgresql-kubernetes.html">SCaLE 23x and CloudNativePG: Robust, Self-Healing PostgreSQL on Kubernetes</a> by Jimmy Angelakos</li> </ul>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:16:44 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/75/Contributions for week 10, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/74/<p>On Tuesday March 10, 2026 <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresbe/events/313227373/">PUG Belgium met for the March edition</a>, organized by Boriss Mejias and Stefan Fercot. </p> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Esteban Zimanyi </li> <li>Thijs Lemmens</li> <li>Yoann La Cancellera</li> </ul> <p>Robert Haas organized a Hacking Workshop on Tuesday March 10, 2026. Tomas Vondra discussed questions about one of his talks.</p> <p><a href="https://luma.com/5pglgx8h">PostgreSQL Edinburgh meetup Mar 2026</a> met on Thursday March 12, 2026</p> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://eventyay.com/e/88882f3e">FOSSASIA Summit 2026</a> took place from Sunday March 8 - Tuesday March 10, 2026 in Bangkok. </p> <p>PostgreSQL speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Koji Annoura</li> <li>Charly Batista</li> <li>Gary Evans</li> <li>Joe Conway</li> <li>Suraj Kharage</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Sameer Kumar</li> <li>Roneel Kumar</li> <li>Sivaprasad Murali</li> <li>Yugo Nagata</li> <li>Denis Smirnov</li> <li>Vaibhav Dalvi</li> <li>Gyeongseon Park</li> <li>Bo Peng</li> <li>Brian McKerr</li> <li>Chris Travers</li> <li>Jirayut Nimsaeng</li> <li>Gilles Darold</li> <li>Rajni Baliyan</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://live.pgconf.in/">PostgreSQL Conference India</a> took place in Bengaluru (India) from March 11 - March 13, 2026. </p> <p>Organizers: </p> <ul> <li>Pavan Deolasee</li> <li>Ashish Kumar Mehra</li> <li>Nikhil Sontakke</li> <li>Hari Kiran</li> <li>Rushabh Lathia</li> </ul> <p>Talk Selection Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Amul Sul</li> <li>Dilip Kumar</li> <li>Marc Linster</li> <li>Thomas Munro</li> <li>Vigneshwaran c</li> </ul> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Abhijeet Rajurkar</li> <li>Aditya Duvuri</li> <li>Ajit Awekar</li> <li>Amit Kumar Singh</li> <li>Amogh Bharadwaj</li> <li>Amul Sul</li> <li>Andreas Scherbaum</li> <li>Ashutosh Bapat</li> <li>Avinash Vallarapu</li> <li>Boopathi Parameswaran</li> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Danish Khan</li> <li>Deepak R Mahto</li> <li>Dilip Kumar</li> <li>Divya Bhargov</li> <li>Dr. M. J. Shankar Raman</li> <li>Franck Pachot</li> <li>Hari Kiran</li> <li>Hari Prasad</li> <li>Harish Perumal</li> <li>Jayant Haritsa</li> <li>Jim Mlodgenski</li> <li>Jobin Augustine</li> <li>Joe Conway</li> <li>Kanthanathan S</li> <li>Kevin Biju</li> <li>Koji Annoura</li> <li>Kranthi Kiran Burada</li> <li>Lalit Choudhary</li> <li>Michael Zhilin</li> <li>Mithun Chicklore Yogendra</li> <li>Mohit Agarwal</li> <li>NarendraSingh Tawar</li> <li>Neel Patel</li> <li>Neeta Goel</li> <li>Nikhil Chawla</li> <li>Nikhil Sontakke</li> <li>Nishad Mankar</li> <li>Palak Chaturvedi</li> <li>Pavan Deolasee</li> <li>Pushkar Khadilkar</li> <li>Rahila Syed</li> <li>Rajeev Rastogi</li> <li>Rajkumar Raghuwanshi</li> <li>René Cannaò</li> <li>Ripunjay Tripathi</li> <li>Rohith BCS</li> <li>Roneel Rohitesh Kumar</li> <li>Sai Srirampur</li> <li>Sameer Kumar</li> <li>Samuel Cherukutty</li> <li>Sashikanta Pattanayak</li> <li>Sathakathullah Abdul Kafar</li> <li>Saurabh Gupta</li> <li>Shashidhar</li> <li>Shlok Kumar Kyal</li> <li>Shriram Muthukrishnan</li> <li>Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla</li> <li>Sumedh Pathak</li> <li>Suresh dash</li> <li>Tom Kincaid</li> <li>Vaibhav Popat</li> <li>Vaijayanti Bharadwaj</li> <li>Venkat Akhil Pavuluri</li> <li>Vinay Paladi</li> <li>Vishnu R Nambiar</li> <li>Wazir Ahmed</li> </ul> <p>Volunteers:</p> <ul> <li>Aarti Nadekar</li> <li>Aditya Sanjay Raje</li> <li>Ashesh Vashi</li> <li>Khushboo Vashi</li> <li>Pinaz Raut</li> <li>Rahila Syed</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Posts: </p> <ul> <li><a href="https://gorthx.wordpress.com/2026/03/11/scale23x/">SCaLE23x</a> by Gabrielle Roth</li> </ul>Mon, 16 Mar 2026 08:20:47 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/74/Contributions for week 9, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/73/<p>The community met on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 for the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-nrw/events/313229102/">7. PostgreSQL User Group NRW MeetUp (Cologne, ORDIX AG)</a>. It was organised by Dirk Krautschick and Andreas Baier. </p> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Robin Riel</li> <li>Jan Karremans</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-meetup-berlin/events/313412510/">PostgreSQL Berlin March 2026 Meetup</a> took place on March 5, 2026 organized by Andreas Scherbaum and Sergey Dudoladov. </p> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Andreas Scherbaum</li> <li>Tudor Golubenco</li> <li>Narendra Tawar</li> <li>Kai Wagner</li> </ul> <p>Kai Wagner wrote about his experience at the meetup <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/postgresql-berlin-meetup-march-2026-kai-wagner-dvwqf/">PostgreSQL Berlin Meetup - March 2026 </a></p> <p>Andreas Scherbaum <a href="https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2026-03-06_postgresql-berlin-march-2026-meetup/">wrote a blog posting about the Meetup</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x">SCALE 23x</a> (March 5-8, 2026) had a dedicated PostgreSQL track, filled by the following contributions</p> <p>Trainings: </p> <ul> <li>Elizabeth Christensen</li> <li>Devrim Gunduz</li> <li>Ryan Booz</li> </ul> <p>Talks: </p> <ul> <li>Nick Meyer</li> <li>Tristan Ahmadi</li> <li>Alexandra Wang</li> <li>Christophe Pettus</li> <li>Max Englander</li> <li>Magnus Hagander</li> <li>Bruce Momjian</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Payal Singh</li> <li>German Eichberger</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Justin Frye</li> </ul> <p>SCALE 23x PostgreSQL Booth volunteers: </p> <ul> <li>Bruce Momjian </li> <li>Christine Momjian</li> <li>Gabrielle Roth</li> <li>Jennifer Scheuerell</li> <li>Magnus Hagander</li> <li>Devrim Gunduz</li> <li>Elizabeth Garret Christensen</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Phill Vacca</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Erika Miller</li> <li>Aya Griswold</li> <li>Alex Wood</li> <li>Donald Wong </li> <li>Derya Gumustel</li> </ul> <p>SCALE 23x PostgreSQL Ask Me Anything - Session participants</p> <ul> <li>Mark Wong</li> <li>Devrim Gunduz</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Elizabeth Christensen</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Ryan Booz</li> </ul>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:31:43 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/73/Contributions for week 8, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/72/<p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/313170533/">Prague PostgreSQL Meetup</a> met on Monday, February 23 for the February Edition - organized by Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek &amp; Mayur B.</p> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Damir Bulic</li> <li>Mayur B.</li> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Josef Šimánek</li> </ul> <p>On Wednesday, February 25 2026 Raphael Salguero &amp; Borys Neselovskyi delivered a talk at <a href="https://my.doag.org/event/id.928.doag-dbtalk-database-operating-postgresql-with-high-availability/">DOAG DBTalk Database: Operating PostgreSQL with high availability</a></p> <p>On Thursday, 26 February, the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/events/7420832208166465536/">1st PgGreece Meetup</a> happened - it was organized by Charis Charalampidi. </p> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Charis Charalampidi </li> <li>Eftychia Kitsou</li> <li>Florents Tselai</li> <li>Panagiotis Stathopoulos</li> </ul> <p>The POSETTE 2026 Call for Paper Committee met to finalize and published the <a href="https://posetteconf.com/2025/schedule/">schedule</a> : </p> <ul> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Daniel Gustafsson</li> <li>Krishnakumar “KK” Ravi</li> <li>Melanie Plageman</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfde2026/schedule/#start">PGConf.de 2026</a> Call for Paper Committee met to finalize and publish the schedule:</p> <ul> <li>Christoph Berg</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Olga Kramer</li> <li>Polina Bungina</li> <li>Priyanka Chatterjee</li> </ul>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:20:29 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/72/Contributions for week 7, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/71/<p>New podcast episode <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why-its-fun-to-hack-on-postgres-performance-with-tomas-vondra">“Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance“</a> with Tomas Vondra published on February 20 2026 by Claire Giordano and Aaron Wislang from the series “Talking Postgres”. </p> <p>Hyderabad PostgreSQL User Group met on February 20, organized by Hari Kiran, Ameen Abbas and Rajesh Madiwale. </p> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Ameen Abbas</li> <li>Soqra Banu(sughra) Rumi </li> <li>Ashoka Reddy Tatiparthi </li> <li>Vikas Gupta</li> </ul> <p>The programme committee for <a href="https://2026.pgconf.dev/">PGConf.dev 2026</a> finalized a part of the conference <a href="https://2026.pgconf.dev/schedule/wednesday">schedule</a> for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. </p> <ul> <li>Melanie Plageman (Microsoft)</li> <li>Dilip Kumar (Google)</li> <li>Jonathan Katz (Databricks)</li> <li>Paul Ramsey (Snowflake)</li> <li>Jacob Champion (EDB) (Tuesday sessions will follow). </li> </ul> <p>PGConf.de 2026 talk selection committee met to finalize <a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfde2026/sessions/">the session list</a>: </p> <ul> <li>Christoph Berg</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Olga Kramer</li> <li>Polina Bungina</li> <li>Priyanka Chatterjee</li> </ul>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:48:30 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/71/Contributions for week 6, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/70/<p><a href="https://eventyay.com/e/b85fd0f2/">FOSSASIA PGDay 2026</a> ​​talk selection committee met to finalize the schedule</p> <p>Call for Paper Committee - Members: </p> <ul> <li>Tatsuo Ishii </li> <li>Amit Kapila </li> <li>Amit Langote </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/seattle-postgres/events/313043951/">Seattle Meetup</a> took place on January 12 2026, organized by Lloyd Albin and Jeremy Schneider. Claire Giordano delivered a talk there. </p> <p><a href="https://luma.com/uj0qvxqk">PostgreSQL Edinburgh meetup</a> Feb 2026 was organised by Jimmy Angelakos - he wrote a community blog post about this meetup: <a href="https://vyruss.org/blog/postgresedi-feb-2026-meetup-two-talks.html">PostgresEDI Feb 2026 Meetup — Two Talks</a></p> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Alastair Turner </li> <li>Sean Hammond</li> </ul>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:36:21 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/70/Contributions for week 5, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/69/<p><a href="https://www.pgblr.in/register">PGBLR Meetup</a> met on February 7, organized by Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh, Sivji Kumar Jha and Vigneshwaran C.</p> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Shreya R. Aithal </li> <li>Suresh </li> <li>Y V Ravi Kumar</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://www.pgmumbai.in/">Mumbai PostgreSQL UserGroup</a> met on February 7 - organized by Ajit Gadge, Sovenath Shaw and Deepak Mahto</p> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Hari Kiran</li> <li>Ajit Gadge</li> <li>Kamesh Sampath</li> <li>Jeevan Chalke</li> <li>Drishti Jain</li> <li>Manan Gupta</li> <li>Ashotosh Bapat</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1504097/">CERN PGDay 2026</a> took place on February 6, organized by:</p> <ul> <li>Maurizio De Giorgi</li> <li>Andrzej Nowicki</li> <li>Tobias Bussmann</li> <li>Andreas Geppert</li> <li>Markus Wanner</li> <li>Daniel Westermann</li> </ul> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Maurizio De Giorgi</li> <li>Markus Wanner</li> <li>Jaroslav Guenther</li> <li>Konstantina Skovola</li> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Álvaro Hernández</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Marion Baumgartner</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://2026.pg-data.org/">PG DATA Conference 2026</a>, CfP committee selected the talks. Committee members are listed below:</p> <ul> <li>Dian Fay - Chair</li> <li>Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek</li> <li>Jay Miller</li> <li>Andrew Atkinson</li> <li>Derk van Veen</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Posts: </p> <ul> <li> <p>Kai Wagner - <a href="https://percona.community/blog/2026/02/04/pgday-and-fosdem-report-from-kai/">PGDay and FOSDEM Report from Kai</a></p> </li> <li> <p>Henrietta Dombrovskaya - <a href="https://hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/prague-postgresql-dev-day-a-very-late-follow-up/">Prague PostgreSQL Dev Day – a very late follow up</a></p> </li> </ul>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:27:05 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/69/Contributions for week 1-4, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/68/<p>The <a href="https://2026.nordicpgday.org/">Nordic PGDay 2026</a> Call for Paper Committee met to finalize the talk selection: </p> <ul> <li>Georgios Kokolatos</li> <li>Louise Leinweber</li> <li>Liisa Hämäläinen</li> <li>Thea Stark</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://2026.pgday.paris/">PGDay Paris 2026</a> schedule has also been announced — talk selection was made by:</p> <ul> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Sarah Conway</li> <li>Valeria Kaplan</li> </ul> <p>On Monday, January 26, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/312443724/">Prague PostgreSQL Meetup: January Edition</a> met. It was organized by Mayuresh B. and Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek. </p> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Luigi Nardi</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://p2d2.cz/">Prague PostgreSQL Dev Day 2026</a> (P2D2) happened from January 27 - January 28. </p> <p>Organized by: </p> <ul> <li>Pavel Hák</li> <li>Matěj Klonfar</li> <li>Jan Pěček</li> <li>Ellyne Phneah</li> <li>Pavel Stěhule</li> <li>Tomáš Vondra</li> <li>Aleš Zelený</li> </ul> <p>Talk selection committee:</p> <ul> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Pavel Hák</li> <li>Hana Litavská</li> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> <li>Mayur B</li> <li>Esther Miñano</li> <li>Josef Šimánek</li> <li>Pavel Stěhule</li> <li>Tomáš Vondra</li> </ul> <p>Workshops:</p> <ul> <li>Hettie Dombrovskaya</li> <li>Jonathan, Danish</li> <li>Tomas Vondra</li> <li>Nazir Bilal Yavuz</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> </ul> <p>Talks:</p> <ul> <li>Cagri Biroglu</li> <li>Jakub Kuzela</li> <li>Alexander Kukushkin</li> <li>Kranthi Kiran Burada </li> <li>Narendra Tawar</li> <li>Bruce Momjian</li> <li>Anton Borisov</li> <li>Mohsin Ejaz</li> <li>Petr Šmejkal</li> <li>Michal Bartak</li> <li>Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek</li> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> <li>Ants Aasma</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Luigi Nardi</li> <li>Peter Zaitsev</li> <li>Grant Fritchey</li> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Adam Wolk</li> </ul> <p>Lightning talks: </p> <ul> <li>Mayuresh B.</li> <li>Michal Bartak </li> <li>Sergey Chehuta</li> <li>Alijaz Mur Erzen </li> <li>Josef Machytka </li> <li>Henrietta Dombrovskaya </li> <li>Ants Aasma </li> <li>Jonathan Battiato </li> <li>Ellyne Phneah</li> <li>Mohsin Ejaz</li> <li>Anton Borisov</li> <li>Luigi Nardi</li> </ul> <p>PostgreSQL was represented at <a href="https://fosdem.org/2026/">FOSDEM’26</a> which took place from January 31 - February 1</p> <p>Databases Devroom Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Rohit Nayak</li> <li>Shlomi Noach</li> <li>Ben Dicken</li> <li>Pep Pla</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Daniël van Eeden</li> <li>Nicoleta Lazar</li> <li>Charly Batista</li> <li>Greg Potter</li> <li>Kevin Biju</li> <li>Georgi Kodinov</li> <li>Sunny Bains</li> </ul> <p>Databases Devroom Volunteers: </p> <ul> <li>Raymond Paik</li> <li>Frédéric Descamps</li> <li>Rohit Nayak</li> <li>Alastair Turner</li> <li>Floor Drees</li> <li>Hari Krishna Sunder</li> <li>Matt Lord</li> <li>Anna Widenius</li> <li>Edith Puclla</li> <li>Matthias Crauwels</li> <li>Mattias Jonsson</li> <li>Peter Eisentraut </li> </ul> <p>On January 30, PostgreSQL developer met at the <a href="https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FOSDEM/PGDay_2026_Developer_Meeting">FOSDEM PGDay 2026 Developer Meeting</a>. It was organized by Peter Eisentraut.</p> <p><a href="https://2026.fosdempgday.org/">FOSDEM PGDay 2026</a> happened on January 31.</p> <p>Organized by: </p> <ul> <li>Andreas Scherbaum</li> <li>Celeste Horgan</li> <li>Dave Page</li> <li>Ilya Kosmodemiansky</li> <li>Karen Jex</li> <li>Magnus Hagander</li> <li>Stefan Fercot</li> <li>Teresa Lopes</li> </ul> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Daniel Gustafsson</li> <li>Alexander Sosna</li> <li>Tomas Vondra</li> <li>Stefan Fercot</li> <li>Jonathan Battiato</li> <li>Pierre Ducroquet</li> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Amit Langote</li> <li>Thomas Munro</li> <li>Derk van Veen</li> <li>Bruce Momjian</li> <li>Matt Cornillon</li> </ul> <p>Lightning Talks:</p> <ul> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Floor Drees with Jonathan Gonzalez</li> <li>Devrim Gunduz </li> <li>Mayuresh B.</li> </ul> <p>At FOSDEM PGDay 2026 &amp; FOSDEM’26 the following volunteers helped with several tasks (incl. the PostgreSQL Booth):</p> <ul> <li>Chris Ellis</li> <li>Dave Pitts</li> <li>Devrim Gündüz</li> <li>Ilaria Battiston</li> <li>Jan Wieremjewicz</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Joris Pelgröm</li> <li>Kai Wagner</li> <li>Matt Cornillon</li> <li>Michael Banck</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Pep Pla</li> <li>Sebastiaan Mannem</li> <li>Tobias Bussmann</li> <li>Boriss Mejias</li> <li>Yoann La Cancellera</li> <li>plus more as during the day, more PostgreSQL community members showed up to help (without signing up before)</li> </ul> <p>A new podcast episode <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-with-dbtune-why-we-chose-postgres-with-luigi-nardi">“How I got started with DBtune (&amp; why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi “</a> was published on January 16 2026 by <a href="https://postgresql.life/post/claire_giordano/">Claire Giordano</a> - from her series “Talking Postgres”.</p> <p>On January 14 there was another <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-nyc/events/312276206/">NYC PostgreSQL meetup</a>, with Chelsea Dole speaking. Organizers were Jonathan Hinds (from sponsor Datadog), Mason Sharp, Mila Zhou, and Justin Iso took photos. The event had over 90 attendees. The organizers posted some highlights on <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/miaolaizhou_postgresql-activity-7417597020254883840-JctB">LinkedIn</a>.</p> <p>Community Blog posts:</p> <ul> <li><a href="https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2026-01-07_postgresql-meetup-in-frankfurt-december-2025/">PostgreSQL Meetup in Frankfurt December 2025</a> by Andreas Scherbaum</li> <li><a href="https://haiderzdbre.substack.com/p/i-cant-close-2025-without-saying">I Can’t Close 2025 Without Saying Thank You to the People Behind Postgres</a> by Haider Z</li> <li><a href="https://upyourelly.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-beautiful-uselessness">In Defense of Beautiful Uselessness</a> by Ellyne Phneah</li> </ul>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:39:37 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/68/