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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>postgres-contrib.org | PostgreSQL Contributions</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/</link><description>Weekly PostgreSQL contribution news</description><atom:link href="https://postgres-contrib.org/rss/Cornelia-Biacsics/" rel="self"/><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:31:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Contributions for week 9, 2026</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/73/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The community met on Wednesday, March 4, 2026 for the &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-nrw/events/313229102/"&gt;7. PostgreSQL User Group NRW MeetUp (Cologne, ORDIX AG)&lt;/a&gt;. It was organised by Dirk Krautschick and Andreas Baier. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robin Riel&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Karremans&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-meetup-berlin/events/313412510/"&gt;PostgreSQL Berlin March 2026 Meetup&lt;/a&gt; took place on March 5, 2026 organized by Andreas Scherbaum and Sergey Dudoladov. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andreas Scherbaum&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tudor Golubenco&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Narendra Tawar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kai Wagner&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kai Wagner wrote about his experience at the meetup &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/postgresql-berlin-meetup-march-2026-kai-wagner-dvwqf/"&gt;PostgreSQL Berlin Meetup - March 2026
&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Andreas Scherbaum &lt;a href="https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2026-03-06_postgresql-berlin-march-2026-meetup/"&gt;wrote a blog posting about the Meetup&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x"&gt;SCALE 23x&lt;/a&gt; (March 5-8, 2026) had a dedicated PostgreSQL track, filled by the following contributions&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Trainings: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Christensen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gunduz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ryan Booz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talks: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nick Meyer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tristan Ahmadi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexandra Wang&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Christophe Pettus&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Max Englander&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Magnus Hagander&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bruce Momjian&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Treat&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Payal Singh&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;German Eichberger&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Angelakos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Justin Frye&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SCALE 23x PostgreSQL Booth volunteers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bruce Momjian &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Christine Momjian&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gabrielle Roth&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jennifer Scheuerell&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Magnus Hagander&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gunduz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Garret Christensen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Treat&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Phill Vacca&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Angelakos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Erika Miller&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aya Griswold&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alex Wood&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Donald Wong &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Derya Gumustel&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;SCALE 23x PostgreSQL Ask Me Anything - Session participants&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mark Wong&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gunduz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Treat&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Christensen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ryan Booz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:31:43 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/73/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 8, 2026</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/72/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/313170533/"&gt;Prague PostgreSQL Meetup&lt;/a&gt; met on Monday, February 23 for the February Edition - organized by Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek &amp;amp; Mayur B.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Damir Bulic&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayur B.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Radim Marek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Šimánek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Wednesday, February 25 2026 Raphael Salguero &amp;amp; Borys Neselovskyi delivered a talk at &lt;a href="https://my.doag.org/event/id.928.doag-dbtalk-database-operating-postgresql-with-high-availability/"&gt;DOAG DBTalk Database: Operating PostgreSQL with high availability&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Thursday, 26 February, the &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/events/7420832208166465536/"&gt;1st PgGreece Meetup&lt;/a&gt; happened - it was organized by Charis Charalampidi. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Charis Charalampidi &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Eftychia Kitsou&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Florents Tselai&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Panagiotis Stathopoulos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The POSETTE 2026 Call for Paper Committee met to finalize and published the &lt;a href="https://posetteconf.com/2025/schedule/"&gt;schedule&lt;/a&gt; : &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Claire Giordano&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Daniel Gustafsson&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Krishnakumar “KK” Ravi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Melanie Plageman&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfde2026/schedule/#start"&gt;PGConf.de 2026&lt;/a&gt; Call for Paper Committee met to finalize and publish the schedule:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Christoph Berg&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Olga Kramer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Polina Bungina&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Priyanka Chatterjee&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:20:29 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/72/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 7, 2026</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/71/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;New podcast episode &lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why-its-fun-to-hack-on-postgres-performance-with-tomas-vondra"&gt;“Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance“&lt;/a&gt; with Tomas Vondra published on February 20 2026 by Claire Giordano and Aaron Wislang from the series “Talking Postgres”. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hyderabad PostgreSQL User Group met on February 20, organized by Hari Kiran, Ameen Abbas and Rajesh Madiwale. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ameen Abbas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Soqra Banu(sughra) Rumi &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ashoka Reddy Tatiparthi &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vikas Gupta&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The programme committee for &lt;a href="https://2026.pgconf.dev/"&gt;PGConf.dev 2026&lt;/a&gt; finalized a part of the conference &lt;a href="https://2026.pgconf.dev/schedule/wednesday"&gt;schedule&lt;/a&gt; for Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Melanie Plageman (Microsoft)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dilip Kumar (Google)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Katz (Databricks)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Paul Ramsey (Snowflake)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jacob Champion (EDB)
(Tuesday sessions will follow). &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PGConf.de 2026 talk selection committee met to finalize &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfde2026/sessions/"&gt;the session list&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Christoph Berg&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Olga Kramer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Polina Bungina&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Priyanka Chatterjee&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2026 08:48:30 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/71/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 6, 2026</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/70/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://eventyay.com/e/b85fd0f2/"&gt;FOSSASIA PGDay 2026&lt;/a&gt; ​​talk selection committee met to finalize the schedule&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Call for Paper Committee - Members: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tatsuo Ishii &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amit Kapila &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amit Langote &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/seattle-postgres/events/313043951/"&gt;Seattle Meetup&lt;/a&gt; took place on January 12 2026, organized by Lloyd Albin and Jeremy Schneider. Claire Giordano delivered a talk there. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://luma.com/uj0qvxqk"&gt;PostgreSQL Edinburgh meetup&lt;/a&gt; Feb 2026 was organised by Jimmy Angelakos - he wrote a community blog post about this meetup: &lt;a href="https://vyruss.org/blog/postgresedi-feb-2026-meetup-two-talks.html"&gt;PostgresEDI Feb 2026 Meetup — Two Talks&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alastair Turner &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sean Hammond&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:36:21 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/70/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 5, 2026</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/69/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.pgblr.in/register"&gt;PGBLR Meetup&lt;/a&gt; met on February 7, organized by Amit Kapila, Kuntal Ghosh, Sivji Kumar Jha and Vigneshwaran C.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shreya R. Aithal &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Suresh &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Y V Ravi Kumar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.pgmumbai.in/"&gt;Mumbai PostgreSQL UserGroup&lt;/a&gt; met on February 7 - organized by Ajit Gadge, Sovenath Shaw and Deepak Mahto&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hari Kiran&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ajit Gadge&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kamesh Sampath&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeevan Chalke&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Drishti Jain&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Manan Gupta&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ashotosh Bapat&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://indico.cern.ch/event/1504097/"&gt;CERN PGDay 2026&lt;/a&gt; took place on February 6, organized by:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Maurizio De Giorgi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andrzej Nowicki&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tobias Bussmann&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andreas Geppert&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Markus Wanner&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Daniel Westermann&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Maurizio De Giorgi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Markus Wanner&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jaroslav Guenther&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Konstantina Skovola&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Treat&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Álvaro Hernández&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marion Baumgartner&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://2026.pg-data.org/"&gt;PG DATA Conference 2026&lt;/a&gt;, CfP committee selected the talks. Committee members are listed below:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dian Fay - Chair&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jay Miller&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andrew Atkinson&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Derk van Veen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Community Blog Posts: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Kai Wagner - &lt;a href="https://percona.community/blog/2026/02/04/pgday-and-fosdem-report-from-kai/"&gt;PGDay and FOSDEM Report from Kai&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Henrietta Dombrovskaya - &lt;a href="https://hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2026/02/06/prague-postgresql-dev-day-a-very-late-follow-up/"&gt;Prague PostgreSQL Dev Day – a very late follow up&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2026 20:27:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/69/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 1-4, 2026</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/68/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://2026.nordicpgday.org/"&gt;Nordic PGDay 2026&lt;/a&gt; Call for Paper Committee met to finalize the talk selection: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Georgios Kokolatos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Louise Leinweber&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Liisa Hämäläinen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thea Stark&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://2026.pgday.paris/"&gt;PGDay Paris 2026&lt;/a&gt; schedule has also been announced — talk selection was made by:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sarah Conway&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Valeria Kaplan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Monday, January 26, the &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/312443724/"&gt;Prague PostgreSQL Meetup: January Edition&lt;/a&gt; met. It was organized by Mayuresh B. and Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Luigi Nardi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://p2d2.cz/"&gt;Prague PostgreSQL Dev Day 2026&lt;/a&gt; (P2D2) happened from January 27 - January 28. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Organized by: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Hák&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matěj Klonfar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Pěček&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ellyne Phneah&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Stěhule&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tomáš Vondra&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aleš Zelený&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talk selection committee:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Hák&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hana Litavská&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayur B&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Esther Miñano&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Šimánek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Stěhule&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tomáš Vondra&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Workshops:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hettie Dombrovskaya&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan, Danish&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tomas Vondra&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nazir Bilal Yavuz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talks:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cagri Biroglu&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jakub Kuzela&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexander Kukushkin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kranthi Kiran Burada &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Narendra Tawar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bruce Momjian&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anton Borisov&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mohsin Ejaz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Petr Šmejkal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Michal Bartak&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ants Aasma&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Treat&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Luigi Nardi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Peter Zaitsev&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Grant Fritchey&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Radim Marek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adam Wolk&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning talks: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayuresh B.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Michal Bartak &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sergey Chehuta&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alijaz Mur Erzen &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Dombrovskaya &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ants Aasma &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Battiato &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ellyne Phneah&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mohsin Ejaz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anton Borisov&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Luigi Nardi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PostgreSQL was represented at &lt;a href="https://fosdem.org/2026/"&gt;FOSDEM’26&lt;/a&gt; which took place from January 31 - February 1&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases Devroom Speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rohit Nayak&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shlomi Noach&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ben Dicken&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pep Pla&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Angelakos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Daniël van Eeden&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nicoleta Lazar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Charly Batista&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Greg Potter&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kevin Biju&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Georgi Kodinov&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sunny Bains&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Databases Devroom Volunteers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Raymond Paik&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Frédéric Descamps&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rohit Nayak&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alastair Turner&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Floor Drees&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hari Krishna Sunder&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matt Lord&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Anna Widenius&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Edith Puclla&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matthias Crauwels&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mattias Jonsson&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Peter Eisentraut &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On January 30, PostgreSQL developer met at the &lt;a href="https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/FOSDEM/PGDay_2026_Developer_Meeting"&gt;FOSDEM PGDay 2026 Developer Meeting&lt;/a&gt;. It was organized by Peter Eisentraut.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://2026.fosdempgday.org/"&gt;FOSDEM PGDay 2026&lt;/a&gt; happened on January 31.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Organized by: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andreas Scherbaum&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Celeste Horgan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dave Page&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ilya Kosmodemiansky&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Karen Jex&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Magnus Hagander&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Stefan Fercot&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Daniel Gustafsson&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexander Sosna&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tomas Vondra&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Stefan Fercot&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Battiato&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pierre Ducroquet&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Claire Giordano&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amit Langote&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thomas Munro&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Derk van Veen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bruce Momjian&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matt Cornillon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning Talks:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Angelakos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Floor Drees with Jonathan Gonzalez&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gunduz &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayuresh B.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;At FOSDEM PGDay 2026 &amp;amp; FOSDEM’26 the following volunteers helped with several tasks (incl. the PostgreSQL Booth):&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Ellis&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dave Pitts&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gündüz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ilaria Battiston&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Wieremjewicz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Angelakos&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Joris Pelgröm&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kai Wagner&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matt Cornillon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Michael Banck&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pep Pla&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sebastiaan Mannem&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tobias Bussmann&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Boriss Mejias&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yoann La Cancellera&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;plus more as during the day, more PostgreSQL community members showed up to help (without signing up before)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A new podcast episode &lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-with-dbtune-why-we-chose-postgres-with-luigi-nardi"&gt;“How I got started with DBtune (&amp;amp; why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi
“&lt;/a&gt; was published on January 16 2026 by &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/claire_giordano/"&gt;Claire Giordano&lt;/a&gt; - from her series “Talking Postgres”.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On January 14 there was another &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-nyc/events/312276206/"&gt;NYC PostgreSQL meetup&lt;/a&gt;, 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 &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/posts/miaolaizhou_postgresql-activity-7417597020254883840-JctB"&gt;LinkedIn&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Community Blog posts:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2026-01-07_postgresql-meetup-in-frankfurt-december-2025/"&gt;PostgreSQL Meetup in Frankfurt December 2025&lt;/a&gt; by Andreas Scherbaum&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://haiderzdbre.substack.com/p/i-cant-close-2025-without-saying"&gt;I Can’t Close 2025 Without Saying Thank You to the People Behind Postgres&lt;/a&gt; by Haider Z&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://upyourelly.substack.com/p/in-defense-of-beautiful-uselessness"&gt;In Defense of Beautiful Uselessness&lt;/a&gt; by Ellyne Phneah&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 02 Feb 2026 09:39:37 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/68/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 53, 2025</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/67/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Emma Saroyan organized a &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/armenia-postgresql-user-group/events/312502285/"&gt;PUG Armenia speed networking meetup&lt;/a&gt; on December 25 2025. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://2026.fosdempgday.org/"&gt;FOSDEM PGDay 2026&lt;/a&gt; Schedule announced on Dec 23 2025.
Call for Paper Committee: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Stefan Fercot&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Flavio Gurgel&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Community Blog Posts: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chiira B. Mwangi
&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-joined-community-chiira-b-mwangi-iqpve/"&gt;I joined a community!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2025 21:22:13 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/67/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 52, 2025</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/66/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Pavlo Golub gave a talk at &lt;a href="https://wawtech.io/"&gt;WaW Tech conference&lt;/a&gt; in Warsaw on Dec 16 2025&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://luma.com/6jxfgnfn"&gt;Hyderabad PostgreSQL UserGroup Meetup&lt;/a&gt; on Dec 19 2025. Organised by Hari Kiran. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shameer Bhupathi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jagadish Kantubugata&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeevan DC&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Uma Shankar PB &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Uttam Samudrala&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/islamabad-postgresql-user-group/events/304754914/?eventOrigin=group_past_events"&gt;PostgreSQL User Group meeting in Islamabad&lt;/a&gt;  wasn’t mentioned earlier. The meetup took place on December 6 and was organized by Umair Shahid, who also gave a talk at the event.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Community Blog Posts&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Andreas Scherbaum
&lt;a href="https://andreas.scherbaum.la/post/2025-11-24_postgresql-berlin-november-2025-meetup/"&gt;Berlin November 2025 Meetup&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Valeria Kaplan
&lt;a href="https://valeria-kaplan.medium.com/from-pgdays-to-pgcon-fs-dbec3705b97a"&gt;From PGDays to PGCon/fs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Cornelia Biacsics
&lt;a href="https://cornelia-biacsics.medium.com/eye-strain-podcasts-and-gratitude-00ca5712315b"&gt;Eye Strain, Podcasts and Gratitude&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2025 19:08:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/66/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 51, 2025</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/65/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;On December 11, the &lt;a href="https://home.cern/events/cern-pgday-2026"&gt;PGDay CERN 2026&lt;/a&gt; CfP committee met to finalize the talk selection. The committee members are listed here:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tobias Bussmann, SCNAT (chair, non voting)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Abel Cabezas Alonso, CERN&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Maurizio De Giorgi, CERN&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andreas Geppert, ZKB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Julia Gugel, migrolino&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tom Hagel, Volue&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Svitlana Lytvynenko, CYBERTEC
*Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek, Xata&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.ittage.informatik-aktuell.de/"&gt;IT Tage Frankfurt&lt;/a&gt; Dec 8-11 2025
Workshops: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hans-Jürgen Schönig&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talks: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Thomas Koch&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Raphael Salguero Aragón&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Baric&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hans-Jürgen Schönig&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adrien Obernesser&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bernd Patolla&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Michael Mühlbeyer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/daniel_westermann/"&gt;Daniel Westermann&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/dirk_krautschick/"&gt;Dirk Krautschick&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Norman Bischoff&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonas Gassenmeyer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Markus Dahm&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dr. Veikko Krypczyk&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-user-group-frankfurt-am-main/events/312056115/"&gt;Meetup Frankfurt&lt;/a&gt; on December 10 2025 organised by Ilya Kosmodemiansky and Diego Calvo de No&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speaker&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andreas Scherbaum&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dirk Aumueller&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;New podcast episode &lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/what-postgres-developers-can-expect-from-pgconf-dev-with-melanie-plageman"&gt;What Postgres developers can expect from PGConf.dev
&lt;/a&gt; published by &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/claire_giordano/"&gt;Claire Giordano&lt;/a&gt; from her series “Talking Postgres” with &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/melanie_plageman/"&gt;Melanie Plageman&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On December 11 2025, &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/jimmy_angelakos/"&gt;Jimmy Angelakos&lt;/a&gt; organized the first &lt;a href="https://luma.com/b9kv5fds"&gt;PostgreSQL Edinburgh meetup&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/chris_ellis/"&gt;Chris Ellis&lt;/a&gt; and Jimmy Angelakos spoke at this meetup. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Swiss PostgreSQL Users had a Meetup in Zurich, speakers are &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/stefan_keller/"&gt;Stefan Keller&lt;/a&gt; and Lars Herrmann.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Talk Selection Committee from the Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day finalized the schedule for &lt;a href="https://p2d2.cz/en/"&gt;P2D2&lt;/a&gt;  - the team consists of: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Hák&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hana Litavská&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayur B&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Esther Miñano&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Šimánek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Stěhule&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tomáš Vondra&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2025 20:57:49 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/65/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for week 50, 2025</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/64/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/tallinn-postgresql-meetup/events/311942574/"&gt;PGUG.EE&lt;/a&gt; met on December 3 2025 in Estonia, organized by Kaarel Moppel &amp;amp; Ervin Weber&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talks&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayuresh Bagayatkar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexander Matrunich&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ants Aasma&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kaarel Moppel&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bruce Momjian spoke at the &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/armenia-postgresql-user-group/events/312154434/"&gt;PG Armenia Community Meetup&lt;/a&gt;, organised by Emma Saroyan on December 4 2025.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 07 Dec 2025 21:26:26 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/64/</guid></item></channel></rss>