postgres-contrib.org | PostgreSQL Contributionshttps://postgres-contrib.org/Weekly PostgreSQL contribution newsen-usTue, 21 Jul 2026 06:38:49 +0000Contributions for week 28https://postgres-contrib.org/post/90/<p>On 15 July 2026, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/illinois-prairie-postgresql-user-group/events/315208472/">Prairie Postgres Meetup Group</a> met, organized by Henrietta Dombrovskaya and Carlos Aranibar.</p> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Zach Paden</li> <li>Anna Bailliekova</li> </ul> <p>On 18 July 2026, Alicja Kucharczyk, Pavlo Golub, Denys Holub &amp; Anastasia Golub staffed the PostgreSQL booth at <a href="https://wawtech.io/summer">WAWTech Summer</a>. </p> <p>The PostgreSQL Madagascar Conference 2026 took place on 18 July 2026. </p> <p>Organizers:</p> <ul> <li>BAOVOLA Marie Anna</li> <li>Dominique RAKOTONIRINA</li> <li>RAVAKINIAINA Tokifanantenana</li> </ul> <p>Program Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Bodo Arivola</li> <li>Jerson Raheriniaina</li> <li>Toky Fandresena MANOVOSOA</li> <li>Vahatra </li> </ul> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Fabian Kimambo</li> <li>Lova Andriarimalala </li> <li>damien clochard</li> <li>Hans-Juergen Schoenig</li> <li>Nicaise CHOUNGMO FOFACK</li> <li>Prafulla Ranadive</li> </ul> <p>Claire Giordano and Aaron Wislang hosted and published a new podcast episode on 17 July, 2026 <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/working-on-postgres-after-13-years-on-sql-server-with-panagiotis-antonopoulos">“Working on Postgres after 13 years on SQL Server with Panagiotis Antonopoulos</a> from the <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/">Talking Postgres</a> series. </p> <p>On 8 July, Evangeline Cheng delivered a talk at the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-nyc/events/314989946/">PUG NYC</a>, organized by Miaolai Zhou and Mason Sharp</p> <p>Community Blog Posts:</p> <ul> <li>Jimmy Angelakos about <a href="https://vyruss.org/blog/postgresedi-july-2026-meetup-public-speaking-ai-compliance.html">PostgresEDI July 2026 Meetup — Public Speaking, AI Compliance</a></li> <li>Henrietta Dombrovskaya about <a href="https://hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2026/07/19/prairie-postgres-july-meetup-proudly-sourced-at-midwest/">Prairie Postgres July Meetup: Proudly Sourced at Midwest!</a></li> <li>Monica Oyugi about <a href="https://medium.com/@monicaoyugi/pgconf-dev-2026-vancouver-showed-up-and-so-did-i-919becc1bd1a">PGConf.dev 2026: Vancouver Showed Up and So Did I</a></li> </ul>Tue, 21 Jul 2026 06:38:49 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/90/Contributions for week 26 & 27https://postgres-contrib.org/post/89/<p>On 2 July, 2026, the <a href="https://postgresql.istanbul">PostgreSQL Istanbul Meetup</a> met for the first time, organized by Devrim Gündüz, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek &amp; Bilge Korkmaz Erdim.</p> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Viktoriia Hrechukha</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> </ul> <p>On 2 July 2026, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/tallinn-postgresql-meetup/events/315294616/">PostgreSQL User Group Estonia</a> met, organized by Ervin Weber</p> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya</li> <li>Martin Vool</li> </ul> <p>On 2 July, the Program Committee of PGConf Brazil met to finalize the <a href="https://2025.pgconf.com.br/schedule">schedule</a>:</p> <ul> <li>Rodrigo (Bill) Bernardi</li> <li>Taís Medeiros</li> <li>Marcelo Altmann</li> <li>Ronaldo Andrade Silva</li> <li>Rafael Thofehrn Castro</li> </ul> <p>On 9 July, the Program Committee of PGDay Lowlands met to finalize <a href="https://2026.pgday.nl/">the schedule</a>: </p> <ul> <li>Teresa Lopes (Chair)</li> <li>Chelsea Dole</li> <li>Stefan Fercot</li> <li>Boriss Mejias</li> <li>Ellert van Koperen</li> </ul> <p>On 9 July, the <a href="https://luma.com/ocnyugns">PostgreSQL Edinburgh Meetup July 2026</a> met, organized by Jimmy Angelakos</p> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Pat Wright </li> <li>Martins Otun</li> </ul> <p>Multi-media contributions:</p> <ul> <li>Pavlo Golub posted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmXDeIODQ14">a video about Swiss PGDay 2026</a></li> </ul>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:43:57 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/89/Contributions for week 25https://postgres-contrib.org/post/88/<p>On June 23 2026, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/315092418/">London PostgreSQL Meetup Group</a> met. Organized by:</p> <ul> <li>Valeria Kaplan</li> <li>Chris Ellis</li> <li>Alastair Turner</li> <li>Michael Christofides</li> </ul> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Andreas Karlsson</li> <li>Alastair Turner</li> <li>Valeria Kaplan</li> </ul> <p>On June 23, 2026, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/meetup-postgresql-lille/events/315212349/">Meetup PostgreSQL Lille</a> met. Organized by Stefan Fercot and Yoann La Cancellera. Both delivered a talk at this meetup. </p> <p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-user-group-frankfurt-am-main/events/314721609/">Postgres User Group Frankfurt am Main</a> met on 24 June 2026 where Marc Linster delivered a talk. The Meetup was organized by</p> <ul> <li>Valeria Kaplan</li> <li>Dirk Aumueller</li> <li>Diego Calvo de Nó</li> <li>Ilya Kosmodemiansky</li> </ul> <p>On June 25 2026 the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-nl/events/315082940/">PostgreSQL User Group NL</a> met for their Summer Edition. Organized by Gerard Zuidweg and Feike Steenbergen.</p> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Matthias van der Meent</li> <li>Bart Orbons</li> <li>Jan Karremans</li> </ul> <p>The Program Committee of <a href="https://2026.pgday.uk/">PGDay UK 2026</a> met to finalize the schedule:</p> <ul> <li>Celeste Horgan</li> <li>Greg Clough</li> <li>Sastry Karamcheti</li> <li>Alastair Turner </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://2026.pgday.ch/">Swiss PGDay 2026</a> took place from June 25-26 2026. Organized by: </p> <ul> <li>Marion Baumgartner</li> <li>Tobias Bussmann</li> <li>Andreas Geppert</li> <li>Stefan Keller</li> <li>Svitlana Lytvynenko</li> <li>Daniel Westermann</li> </ul> <p>Talk selection team:</p> <ul> <li>Marion Baumgartner</li> <li>Tobias Bussmann</li> <li>Andreas Geppert</li> <li>Johannes Graën</li> <li>Stefan Keller</li> <li>Michelle Willen</li> </ul> <p>Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Suraj Kharage</li> <li>Dirk Krautschick</li> <li>Sudeepta Patra</li> <li>Laurenz Albe</li> <li>Emrah Becer</li> <li>Marion Baumgartner</li> <li>Jan Suchánek</li> <li>Barbora Linhartová</li> <li>Michael Banck</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Grant Fritchey</li> <li>Devrim Gunduz</li> <li>Oleksii Kliukin</li> <li>Dimitris Sideris</li> <li>Hervé Schweitzer</li> <li>Xavier Fischer</li> <li>Domenico di Salvia</li> <li>Harmeet Singh</li> <li>Daniel Westermann</li> <li>Stefan Keller</li> <li>Miguel Toscano</li> <li>Andreas Geppert</li> <li>Bertrand Hartwig-Peillon</li> <li>Andrea Minetti</li> <li>Adrien Obernesser</li> <li>Divya Sharma</li> </ul> <p>Lightning Talk Speakers: </p> <ul> <li>Raphael Debinski</li> <li>Stefan Keller: </li> <li>Nikolay Kuznetsov</li> <li>Luigi Nardi</li> <li>Hannu Krosig</li> <li>Alberto Piai</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> </ul>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:14:46 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/88/Contributions for week 23 & 24, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/87/<p>On June 5 2026, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/greece-postgresql-users-group/events/314830787/">PostgreSQL User Group Greece</a> met, organized by Eftychia Kitsou and Charis Charalampidi.</p> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>George Capnias</li> <li>Kostas Maistrelis</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://2026.pgdayboston.org/">PGDay Boston</a> happened on June 9 2026 Organized by:</p> <ul> <li>Tom Kincaid</li> <li>Aaryan Sonwane</li> <li>Pat Wright</li> <li>Shayon Mukherjee</li> <li>Shihao Zhong</li> <li>Regina Obe</li> <li>Kheli Fallon</li> </ul> <p>Talk selection committee:</p> <ul> <li>Erik Pohi</li> <li>Greg Burd</li> <li>Kanchan Mohitey</li> <li>Geetha Setty</li> <li>Shree Vidhya Sampath</li> <li>Sachin Pawar</li> <li>Rob Emanuele</li> </ul> <p>Code of Conduct Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Vibhor Kumar</li> <li>Stacey Haysler</li> <li>Ken Rugg</li> </ul> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Michael Stonebraker</li> <li>Richard Yen</li> <li>Brian Brennglass</li> <li>Bruce Momjian</li> <li>Robert Haas</li> <li>Shree Vidhya Sampath</li> <li>Ryan Booz</li> </ul> <p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-meetup-berlin/events/314904507/">Postgres Meetup Group Berlin</a> met on June 10 2026, where David Wheeler delivered a talk. The Meetup was organized by</p> <ul> <li>Andreas Scherbaum</li> <li>Oleksii Kliukin</li> <li>Celeste Horgan</li> <li>Sergey Dudoladov</li> </ul> <p>The Silicon Chalet Meetup Group met on June 11 2026 for the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/silicon-chalet/events/314671848/">SC66: Meetup PostgreSQL</a></p> <p>Organized by </p> <ul> <li>Maeva THIBURCE</li> <li>Guillaume Proust</li> <li>Franck Pachot</li> </ul> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Yingkun Bai</li> <li>Mathieu Perez</li> <li>Daniel Westermann </li> </ul> <p>On June 11 2026, <a href="https://luma.com/cnygmdv1">PostgreSQL Edinburgh Meetup June 2026</a> happened, organized by </p> <ul> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Jim Gardner</li> <li>Denys Rybalchenko</li> </ul> <p>Claire Giordano and Aaron Wislang hosted and published a new podcast episode on June 12, 2026 <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-running-a-postgres-user-group-with-jeremy-schneider">“How I got started running a Postgres user group with Jeremy Schneider”</a> from the <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/">Talking Postgres</a> series. </p> <p><a href="https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/europe/">PASS Summit On Tour: Frankfurt 2026</a> happened from June 10-11, 2026. PostgreSQL talks by: </p> <ul> <li>Grant Fritchey</li> <li>Pat Wright</li> <li>Akanksha Sheoran</li> <li>Andreas Jordan</li> <li>Per Christopher Undheim</li> <li>Chanpreet Singh</li> <li>Michael Banck</li> </ul> <p>On Saturday, 13th June, 2026 , <a href="https://pgpune.in/">PgPune</a> met for <a href="https://pgpune.in/events/5/">Event #5</a>. </p> <p>Organized by:</p> <ul> <li>Ashish Mehra</li> <li>Sachin Kotwal</li> <li>Sagar Jadhav</li> <li>Rushabh Lathia</li> </ul> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Hari Kiran</li> <li>Jeevan Chalke</li> <li>Mohini Ogale</li> <li>Ayush Shah</li> <li>Prafulla Ranadive</li> </ul> <p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/warsaw-postgresql-users-group/events/314765216/">Warsaw PostgreSQL User Group</a> met on June 16, organized by Adam Wołk, Alicja Kucharczyk &amp; Tomasz Gintowt</p> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Kamil Króliszewski</li> <li>Dr. Luigi Nardi</li> </ul> <p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/en-au/brisbane-postgres-user-group/events/314943593/">Brisbane PostgreSQL User Group</a> met on 17 June, organized by Udara and Gary Evans. Gary Evans delivered a talk. </p> <p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-paris/events/314857652/">Meetup PostgreSQL Paris</a> met on June 17 2026, organized by</p> <ul> <li>Andréa Girollet</li> <li>Sébastien DELOBEL</li> <li>Vincent Mercier</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> </ul> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Sebastien Delobel</li> <li>Thomas Boussekey</li> </ul> <p>On June 17 <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-meetup-for-all/events/314630689/">PostgreSQL Meetup for All</a> met virtually, organized by Elizabeth Christensen. Tomas Vondra delivered a talk. </p> <p><a href="https://posetteconf.com/2026/">POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026</a> happened virtually from June 16-18 2026 Organized by:</p> <ul> <li>Aaron Wislang</li> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Cornelia Biacsics</li> <li>Gauri Kasar</li> <li>Henry Huang</li> <li>Jeremy Asomaning</li> <li>Linda Leste</li> <li>Pooja Yarabothu</li> <li>Shriram Muthukrishnan</li> <li>Silvano Coriani</li> </ul> <p>Talk selection team:</p> <ul> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Daniel Gustafsson</li> <li>Divya Bhargov</li> <li>Melanie Plageman</li> </ul> <p>Code of Conduct Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Aaron Wislang</li> <li>Claire Giordano</li> </ul> <p>Hosts:</p> <ul> <li>Thomas Munro </li> <li>Adam Wolk </li> <li>Divya Bhargov</li> <li>Abe Omorogbe</li> <li>Derk van Veen </li> <li>Sumedh Pathak</li> <li>Floor Drees</li> <li>Claire Giordano</li> </ul> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Abe Omorogbe</li> <li>Adam Wolk</li> <li>Adithya Kumaranchath</li> <li>Affan Dar</li> <li>Alexander Kukushkin</li> <li>Álvaro Herrera</li> <li>Andrew Ruffin</li> <li>Ashutosh Bapat</li> <li>Boriss Mejias</li> <li>Bruce Momjian</li> <li>Charles Feddersen</li> <li>Chris Ellis</li> <li>Christian Miles</li> <li>Chun Lin Goh</li> <li>Derk van Veen</li> <li>Diaa Radwan</li> <li>Dingding Lu</li> <li>Divya Bhargov</li> <li>Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek</li> <li>Hamid Akhtar</li> <li>Hari Kiran</li> <li>Heikki Linnakangas</li> <li>Jeremy Schneider</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> <li>Julia Schröder Langhaeuser</li> <li>Leonardo Cecchi</li> <li>Marco Slot</li> <li>Matt McFarland</li> <li>Melanie Plageman</li> <li>Mohsin Ejaz</li> <li>Muhammad Usama</li> <li>Murat Tuncer</li> <li>Nitin Jadhav</li> <li>Pamela Fox</li> <li>Paolo Melchiorre</li> <li>Paula Berenguel</li> <li>Paula Santamaría</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Rahila Syed</li> <li>Richard Yen</li> <li>Sai Srirampur</li> <li>Sakshi Nasha</li> <li>Sarat Balijepalli</li> <li>Shashikant Shakya</li> <li>Taiob Ali</li> <li>Thomas Munro</li> <li>Tomas Vondra</li> <li>Varun Dhawan</li> <li>Xuneng Zhou</li> </ul> <p>On June 18 2026, the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/sydney-postgres-user-group/events/314969273/">Sydney PostgreSQL User Group</a> met, organized by:</p> <ul> <li>Shadab Mohammad</li> <li>Roneel Kuma</li> <li>Rajni Baliyan</li> <li>Malcolm McLean</li> </ul> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Roneel Kumar</li> <li>Nishchay Kothari</li> </ul> <p>On June 20, 2026 the <a href="https://luma.com/zmsx51hu">PostgreSQL Community Bulgaria met for Meetup #1</a>, organized by Nayden Gochev, Velichka Vodenicharova &amp; Radoslav S.</p> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Radoslav Stanoev</li> <li>Ankit Mishra </li> <li>Deepak Sharma</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Posts:</p> <ul> <li>Ellyne Phneah about <a href="https://upyourelly.substack.com/p/marketing-a-conference-from-7000">Marketing a Conference From 7,000 Kilometres Away: What I Learned at PG Data 2026</a></li> </ul>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:41:00 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/87/Contributions for week 22, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/86/<p>The <a href="https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/314346642/">Prague PosgreSQL User Group</a> met on June 1, 2026, organized by Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek and Mayur B.</p> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Laurenz Albe </li> <li>Josef Šimánek</li> <li>Ants Aasma </li> </ul> <p><a href="https://pgday.fr/">PGDay France 2026</a> took place from June 3-4 </p> <p>Organizers:</p> <ul> <li>Jean-Paul Argudo</li> <li>Jean-Christophe Arnu</li> <li>Sylvain Beorchia</li> <li>Damien Clochard</li> <li>Matt Cornillon</li> <li>Flavio Gurgel</li> <li>Yohann Martin</li> <li>Xavier Simon</li> <li>Anaïs Oberto</li> </ul> <p>Talk Selection Team:</p> <ul> <li>Yves Colin</li> <li>Bertrand Drouvot</li> <li>Naeva Mallet</li> <li>Helene Nguyen</li> </ul> <p>Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Philippe Viegas </li> <li>Jean-Christophe Arnu </li> <li>Damien Clochard </li> <li>Matt Cornillon </li> <li>Julien Acroute</li> <li>Wilfried Roset </li> <li>Frédéric Delacourt </li> <li>Haritabh Gupta </li> <li>Luigi Nardi</li> <li>Franck Pachot</li> <li>Vincent Mercier</li> </ul> <p>Lightning Talks:</p> <ul> <li>Cédric Duprez </li> <li>Etienne Bersac</li> <li>Thibaud Madelaine </li> <li>Sébastien Delobel</li> <li>Alain Lesage</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://2026.pg-data.org/">PG DATA 2026</a> took place on June 4-5 2026. </p> <p>Organizers:</p> <ul> <li>Carlos Aranibar </li> <li>Hettie Dombrovskaya</li> <li>Pat Wright</li> <li>Ellyne Phneah</li> </ul> <p>Talk Selection Team:</p> <ul> <li>Dian Fay (non voting chair)</li> <li>Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek</li> <li>Jay Miller</li> <li>Andrew Atkinson</li> <li>Derk van Veen</li> </ul> <p>CoC Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Laetitia Avrot</li> <li>Umair Shahid</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> </ul> <p>Trainings:</p> <ul> <li>Andrew Atkinson</li> <li>Lætitia Avrot</li> <li>Shaun Thomas</li> </ul> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Robert Haas</li> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Umair Shahid</li> <li>Sam Wilson</li> <li>Hajira Sultana</li> <li>Greg Potter</li> <li>Gleb Otochkin</li> <li>Nida Fatima</li> <li>Sami Imseih</li> <li>Chirag Dave</li> <li>Steve Zelaznik</li> <li>Henrietta Dombrovskaya</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Sukhpreet Kaur Bedi</li> <li>Nazneen Jafri</li> <li>Ryan Booz</li> <li>Denis Magda</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Paul Jungwirth</li> <li>Ellyne Phneah</li> <li>Apoorv Garg</li> <li>Shaun Thomas</li> <li>Kellyn Gorman</li> <li>Egor Tarasenko</li> <li>Devrim Gunduz</li> <li>Dian Fay</li> <li>Lukas Fittl</li> <li>Pat Wright</li> <li>Alfredo Rodriguez</li> <li>Naresh Reddy Regalla</li> <li>Varun Dhawan</li> <li>Wagner Bianchi</li> </ul> <p>Lightning Talk Speaker:</p> <ul> <li>Anna Bailliekova</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Arushi Malhotra (new speaker)</li> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Alfredo Rodriguez</li> <li>Ryan Booz</li> </ul> <p>Volunteers:</p> <ul> <li>Anna Bailliekova</li> <li>Boris Novikov</li> <li>Keanya Phelps</li> <li>Lahitha Motupalli</li> <li>Prabhakar Kamath</li> <li>Rick Lowe</li> <li>Ryan Weisman</li> <li>Sashank Kallakuri</li> <li>Carlos Aranibar</li> <li>Divyaraj Rana</li> <li>Gleb Otochkin</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Radim Marek</li> <li>Umair Shahid</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Devrim Gunduz</li> <li>Steve Zelaznik</li> <li>Gerry Tucker</li> <li>Julian Coleman</li> </ul>Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:45:44 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/86/Contributions for week 21, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/85/<p>On May 26 2026, the <a href="https://luma.com/swrxy465">Bratislava PostgreSQL Meetup</a> came together, organized by Pavlo Golub and Meego Smith. Mayur B. and Devrim Gündüz delivered a presentation. </p> <p>About 90 attendees showed up for the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-nyc/events/314469550/">NYC Postgres meetup</a> that took place May 27 with Gleb Otochkin speaking. </p> <p>Organizers: </p> <ul> <li>Xuan Tang</li> <li>Mason Sharp</li> <li>Mila Zhou</li> <li>Justin Iso</li> <li>Lloyd Massiah</li> </ul> <p>On Thursday, 28 May, the PostgreSQL User Group Vienna met for a casual networking event, organized by Cornelia Biacsics. </p> <p>On Friday, 29 May 2026 the <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ghana-postgresql-users-group/">Ghana PostgreSQL Users Group</a> met for the first virtual meetup, organized by Benedict Kofi Amofah and Ezra Yendau</p> <p>Community Blog Posts</p> <ul> <li>Jeremy Schneider - <a href="https://ardentperf.com/2026/05/26/pgconf-dev-2026-trip-summary/">PGConf.dev 2026 Trip Summary</a></li> <li>Ashutosh Bapat - <a href="https://ashutoshpg.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-reflections-on-pgconfdev-2026.html">My Reflections on PGConf.dev 2026</a></li> <li>Grant Zhou - <a href="https://www.highgo.ca/2026/05/26/pgconf-dev-2026-why-it-remains-my-favorite-postgresql-conference/">PGConf.dev 2026: Why It Remains My Favorite PostgreSQL Conference </a></li> </ul>Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:35:21 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/85/Contributions for week 20, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/84/<p><a href="https://2026.pgconf.dev/">PGConf.dev 2026</a> took place from May 19-22 2026, organized by</p> <ul> <li>Gwen Shapira</li> <li>Jonathan Katz</li> <li>Kaiting Chen</li> <li>Magnus Hagander</li> <li>Melanie Plageman</li> <li>Paul Ramsey</li> <li>Robert Haas</li> <li>Steve Singer</li> </ul> <p>Program Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Jacob Champion</li> <li>Jonathan Katz</li> <li>Dilip Kumar</li> <li>Melanie Plageman</li> <li>Paul Ramsey</li> </ul> <p>Tuesday Planning Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Corey Huinker</li> <li>Matthias van de Meent</li> <li>Paul Jungwirth</li> <li>Robert Haas</li> </ul> <p>Code of Conduct Committee:</p> <ul> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Stacey Haysler</li> <li>Masahiko Sawada</li> </ul> <p>Volunteers:</p> <ul> <li>Alena Rybakina</li> <li>Álvaro Herrera</li> <li>Amit Kapila</li> <li>Amit Langote</li> <li>Andrew Dunstan</li> <li>Cary Huang</li> <li>Chirag Dave</li> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Cornelia Biacsics</li> <li>Daniel Gustafsson</li> <li>David Rader</li> <li>Divya Bhargov</li> <li>Euler Taveira</li> <li>Gary Evans</li> <li>Grant Zhou</li> <li>Hari P Kiran</li> <li>Jeremy Schneider</li> <li>Kai Wagner</li> <li>Keiko Oda</li> <li>Koji Annoura</li> <li>Lilian Ontowhee</li> <li>Manni Wood</li> <li>Mark Wong</li> <li>Marshall Bush</li> <li>Miaolai Zhou</li> <li>Nazir Bilal Yavuz</li> <li>Oleksii Kliukin</li> <li>Palak Chaturvedi</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Phil Alger</li> <li>Philippe Noël</li> <li>Rahila Syed</li> <li>Raluca Constantin</li> <li>Rick Lowe</li> <li>Robert Haas</li> <li>Shayon Sanyal</li> <li>Steve Singer</li> <li>Sumedh Pathak</li> <li>Tristan Partin</li> <li>Xuneng Zhou</li> <li>Yogesh Sharma</li> </ul> <p>Speakers (including Tuesday Community Sessions &amp; Lightning Talks):</p> <ul> <li>Alastair Turner</li> <li>Alena Rybakina</li> <li>Alexandra Wang</li> <li>Álvaro Herrera</li> <li>Amit Kapila</li> <li>Amit Langote</li> <li>Amul Sul</li> <li>Andreas Scherbaum</li> <li>Andres Freund</li> <li>Andrew Dunstan</li> <li>Andrey Borodin</li> <li>Ants Aasma</li> <li>Ashutosh Bapat</li> <li>Bruce Momjian</li> <li>Christoph Berg</li> <li>Christophe Pettus</li> <li>Claire Giordano</li> <li>Corey Huinkez</li> <li>Cornelia Biacsics</li> <li>Daniel Gustafsson</li> <li>Daniele Varrazzo</li> <li>Dave Page</li> <li>David E. Wheeler</li> <li>David Rowley</li> <li>David Shorten</li> <li>Devrim Gündüz</li> <li>Dilip Kumar</li> <li>Floor Drees</li> <li>Grant Zhou</li> <li>Greg Burd</li> <li>Haibo Yan</li> <li>Hari Kiran</li> <li>Hayato Kuroda</li> <li>Heikki Linnakangas</li> <li>Henrietta Dombrovskaya</li> <li>Hristo Stoyanov</li> <li>Jacob Champion</li> <li>Jaime Casanova</li> <li>Jan Wieck</li> <li>Jimmy Angelakos</li> <li>Joe Conway</li> <li>Jolly Chen</li> <li>Jonathan Katz</li> <li>Joshua Steinmann</li> <li>Kai Wagner</li> <li>Keiko Oda</li> <li>Lukas Fittl</li> <li>Magnus Hagander</li> <li>Manan Gupta</li> <li>Marco Slot</li> <li>Mark Wong</li> <li>Marshall Bush</li> <li>Masahiko Sawada</li> <li>Matthias van de Meent</li> <li>Melanie Plageman</li> <li>Miaolai Zhou</li> <li>Michael Paquier</li> <li>Mohamed Ali</li> <li>Mohammad Dashti</li> <li>Monica Oyugi</li> <li>Nazir Bilal Yavuz</li> <li>Noah Misch</li> <li>Palak Chaturvedi</li> <li>Paul Jungwirth</li> <li>Pavlo Golub</li> <li>Peter Eisentraut</li> <li>Peter V Geoghegan</li> <li>Qu Chen</li> <li>Rahila Syed</li> <li>Raluca Constantin</li> <li>Richard Guo</li> <li>Robert Haas</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Ruohang Feng</li> <li>Stacey Haysler</li> <li>Steve Singer</li> <li>Stu Hood</li> <li>Thomas Lockhart</li> <li>Thomas Munro</li> <li>Tino Engelbrecht</li> <li>Todd J. Green</li> <li>Tom Lane</li> <li>Tomas Vondra</li> <li>Vadim Mikheev</li> <li>Valeria Kaplan</li> <li>Vibhor Kumar</li> <li>Yurii Rashkovskii</li> <li>Zhijie Hou</li> <li>Zsolt Parragi</li> </ul> <p>Inclusivity-Sessions led by:</p> <ul> <li>Stacey Haysler</li> <li>Floor Drees</li> <li>Peter V Geoghegan</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/triangle-postgres-users-group/events/314691486/">Triangle Postgres Users Group</a> met on May 18 2026 for a casual get together, organized by Valerie Parham-Thompson. </p> <p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-paris/events/314675293/">The PostgreSQL User Group, Paris</a> met on May 21, 2026.</p> <p>Organizers:</p> <ul> <li>Sébastien DELOBEL</li> <li>Vincent Mercier</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> </ul> <p>Speakers:</p> <ul> <li>Jules Bourdalé</li> <li>Matt Cornillon</li> </ul>Tue, 26 May 2026 07:50:42 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/84/Contributions for week 19, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/83/<p>On 12 May, 2026 the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-1/events/314529989/">San Francisco Bay Area PostgreSQL Meetup Group</a> met virtually, organized by Katharine Saar, Stacey Haysler and Christophe Pettus. Alex Yarotsky spoke at the event.</p> <p>The <a href="https://2026.pgday.ch/">Swiss PGDay</a> Program Committee met to finalize the schedule:</p> <ul> <li>Marion Baumgartner</li> <li>Tobias Bussmann</li> <li>Andreas Geppert</li> <li>Johannes Graën</li> <li>Stefan Keller</li> <li>Michelle Willen</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Post:</p> <ul> <li>Boriss Mejias about <a href="https://dev.to/bmejias/they-are-blinded-by-a-flag-are-we-too-1bme">They are blinded by a flag. Are we too?</a></li> </ul>Thu, 21 May 2026 21:44:31 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/83/Contributions for week 18, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/82/<p><a href="https://pgconf.be/">PGConf Belgium</a> took place on 5 May 2026, organized by Wim Bertels, An Vercammen, and Grégory Gioffredi , who served also at the talk selection team.</p> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Jan Karremans</li> <li>Boriss Mejias</li> <li>Dwarka Rao</li> <li>Emrah Becer</li> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Franck Pachot</li> <li>Mohsin Ejaz</li> <li>Afroditi Loukidou</li> <li>Gianni Ciolli</li> <li>Bruce Momijan</li> <li>Matt Cornillon</li> <li>Xavier Fischer</li> <li>Thijs Lemmens</li> <li>Josef Machytka</li> </ul> <p>Claire Giordano and Aaron Wislang hosted and published a new podcast episode on May 6, 2026 <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/from-memsql-to-horizondb-an-engineers-journey-with-adam-prout"> From MemSQL to HorizonDB, an engineer's journey with Adam Prout</a> from the <a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/">Talking Postgres</a> series. </p> <p>On May 7 2026, Andreas Scherbaum, Daria Aleshkova, Sergey Dudoladov and Oleksii Kliukin organized the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-meetup-berlin/events/314106185/">Berlin PostgreSQL May Meetup</a>. Robert Treat and Celeste Horgan spoke at this event. </p> <p>On May 7 2026, Jimmy Angelakos organized the <a href="https://luma.com/91uvudnu">PostgreSQL Edinburgh Meetup May 2026</a>. River MacLeod, Jim Gardner and Jimmy Angelakos delivered a talk.</p>Wed, 13 May 2026 06:10:11 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/82/Contributions for week 17, 2026https://postgres-contrib.org/post/81/<p>Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek organized the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/314155561/">Prague PostgreSQL Meetup</a> on 27 April, 2026 Artjoms Iskovs and Andreas Scherbaum presented at the Meetup.</p> <p>Cornelia Biacsics organized the <a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-vienna/events/314034378/">PostgreSQL User Group Vienna Meetup #2</a> on 28th April, 2026. Bernd Reiß and Sahil Sharma spoke at the event. </p> <p><a href="https://www.meetup.com/sydney-postgres-user-group/events/313846252/">Sydney PostgreSQL User Group</a> met on April 29, 2026, organized by Rajni Baliyan and Roneel Kumar </p> <p>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Diksha Sharma </li> <li>Roneel Kumar </li> <li>Shadab Mohammad</li> </ul> <p><a href="https://pgdayarmenia.com/">PGDay Armenia</a> happened on April 30 2026, organized by Emma Saroyan and Sarah Conway </p> <p>Call for Paper Committee:</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>Speaker: </p> <ul> <li>Robert Treat</li> <li>Varik Matevosyan</li> <li>Xavier Fischer</li> <li>Vlada Pogozhelskaya</li> <li>Dalto Curvelano</li> <li>Vik Fearing</li> <li>Ruslan Senchukov</li> <li>Alicja Kucharczyk</li> <li>Bruce Momjian</li> </ul> <p>Community Blog Posts</p> <ul> <li>Valeria Kaplan <a href="https://valeria-kaplan.medium.com/why-sell-the-idea-of-contributing-to-postgresql-to-your-employer-677bba8da0e6">Why sell the idea of contributing to PostgreSQL to your employer</a></li> </ul>Tue, 05 May 2026 06:02:15 +0000https://postgres-contrib.org/post/81/