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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/floor-drees/" rel="self"/><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:10:04 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Contributions for week 48, 2025</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/62/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Seattle Postgres Users Group (SEAPUG) maintained the PostgreSQL booth at  &lt;a href="https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/"&gt;PASS Data Community Summit 2025 &lt;/a&gt; from November 17-21, 2025:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lloyd Albin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeremy Schneider&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Harry Pierson&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ben Chobot&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Deon Gill&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rick Lowe&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John Martin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Grant Fritchey&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lukas Fittl&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ryan Booz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Taiob Ali&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;John Martin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ramesh Pathuri&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Abhishek Shukla&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ezat Karimi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adam Machanic&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shane Borde&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;William Mentaze&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alvaro Costa-Neto&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;James Phillips&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Janis Griffin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jeremy Schneider&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shivam Gulati&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tim Steward&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sudhir Amin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Minesh Chande&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The Mumbai PostgreSQL User Group meetup took place on 20th Nov, 2025, organized by Sovenath Shaw, Ajit Gadge and Deepak Mahto.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jignesh Shah (AWS)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Suraj Kharage(EDB)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jessica Shelar (DataCloudGaze Consulting)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aniket Jadhav, Rushikesh Ghantewar (CDAC)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Trushar Borse , Sagar Sidhpura(Google Cloud)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PostgreSQL Conference Japan 2025 took place on November 21st. It was organized by Haruka Takatsuka, Kazushiro Takeda, Rintaro Ikeda, Tetsuo Sakata, Kousuke Kida, and Junichi Tado.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the conference, the following volunteers helped running the conference: Tamotsu Odaka, Taiki Koshino, Nozomi Anzai, Jun Kuwamura, Hiroki Kataoka, Makoto Kaga, Tetsuji Koyama, Seiji Goto, Shinobu Honma, Kenji Sato, Katsuaki Fukushima, Thiduong Dang, Yung-Chung Ku, Wataru Takahashi, and Kouhei Ito.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2025 08:10:04 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/62/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week 38</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/52/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Daria Aleshkova, &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/oleksii_kliukin/"&gt;Oleksii Kliukin&lt;/a&gt;, Sergey Dudoladov and Andreas Scherbaum organized the PostgreSQL Berlin September Meetup. Divyendu Singh and Marko Coha presented talks.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/308864510/"&gt;Prague PostgreSQL meetup&lt;/a&gt; met for a September edition on the 22th. Pavel Lukasenko talked about “From SQL to Energy Charts: Scalable Energy Metering with PostgreSQL, Kubernetes, and Longhorn”, Josef Machytka presented “PostgreSQL Connections Memory Usage on Linux: How Much, Why, and When?” Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, Mayuresh B, Pavel Hák, Pavel Stěhule, and  Tomas Vondra are organizers for the group.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;September 25 &lt;a href="https://2025.pgdaynapoli.org/"&gt;PGDay Napoli&lt;/a&gt; took place, we recognized the organizers and talk selection committee in a previous post. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Patrick Lauer - Postgres with many data: To MAXINT and beyond&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pep Pla - New kid on the block: Introduction to PostgreSQL Support in ProxySQL 3&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Derk van Veen - Leveraging table partitioning for query performance and data archiving&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek - Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Daniele Varrazzo - Make the most of PostgreSQL using Python&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ellyne Phneah - Postgres and People: The neuroscience and psychology of why we stick around&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Priyanka Chatterjee - All about Common Vulnerabilities and exposures in PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning talk speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Floor Drees - The PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Gonzalez - Building Better Postgres Images with Docker Bake&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Battiato - Storage Performance Matters: Benchmarking PostgreSQL in Kubernetes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek - How to make Postgres Scale to Zero&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ellyne Phneah - Stop chasing ghosts: A smarter way to tune PostgreSQL performance&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Federico Campoli - Spaghetti Carbonara the PostgreSQL way&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2025 15:05:08 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/52/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week 37</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/51/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Miles Richardson presented the WarehousePG project (an open source Greenplum fork) at the &lt;a href="https://luma.com/u042b0vw"&gt;Apache Iceberg™ Europe Community Meetup in London&lt;/a&gt;, September 8. Watch the recording: &lt;a href="https://youtu.be/lz6w9W1Ubps?si=upETJvoKD_zuHL0R"&gt;youtu.be/lz6w9W1Ubps?si=upETJvoKD_zuHL0R&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://2025.pgday.uk/"&gt;PGDay UK&lt;/a&gt; took place, September 9, at the Cavendish Conference Center. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Organizers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Ellis&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gunduz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dave Page&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talk Selection Committee:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ayse Bilge Ince&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dave Pitts&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alastair Turner (chair, voting)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Volunteers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dave Pitts (room host)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Floor Drees (Code of Conduct team, room host)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vik Fearing (registration)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Magnus Hagander (registration)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bruce Momjian - Future Postgres Challenges&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andrew Farries – Postgres schema migrations using the expand/contract pattern
Andrew Farries&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Michael Banck – PostgreSQL Performance Tuning&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marta Palandri - Serving Literary Knowledge as Data: Building and Documenting DH APIs with PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ellyne Phneah – Explaining PostgreSQL Like I’m Five (or 85)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Karremans – PostgreSQL Certification – The PostgreSQL Way&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mehmet Yılmaz – Adaptive Partitioning: Balancing OLTP &amp;amp; OLAP with Citus&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Angelakos – Row-Level Security sucks. Can we make it usable?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgresql-user-group-nl/events/310728717/"&gt;The PostgreSQL UG NL meetup&lt;/a&gt; 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 &lt;a href="https://github.com/credativ/credativ-pg-migrator"&gt;credativ-pg-migrator&lt;/a&gt; project), and Kaarel Moppel (on pgbadger alternative &lt;a href="https://github.com/kmoppel/pgweasel"&gt;pgweasel&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://2025.pgday.nl/"&gt;PGDay Lowlands&lt;/a&gt; took place September 12 at the Rotterdam Blijdorp Zoo. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Organizers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Boriss Mejias&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Derk van Veen&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Floor Drees&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nico Rikken&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sarah Conway&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Stacy Raspopina&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talk Selection Committee:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Teresa Lopes (chair, voting)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Carole Arnaud&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Ellis&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gerard Zuidweg&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emma Saroyan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Volunteers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jos van Schouten (Code of Conduct team)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jimmy Angelakos – How Do We Get Postgres to the Next Level?&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek – Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka – Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Ellis – Fun With UUIDs&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Johannes Paul – Actual trees, not b-trees – or how I found PostgreSQL through&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dirk Krautschick – Beyond Postgres - Insights about the PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Valeria Alexandra Haro Valle – Courting Mongo, committing to Postgres: Our data love story!!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andreas Scherbaum – What I learned interviewing the PostgreSQL Community&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning Talks:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;ShivaDeep Gundoju – How Far Did Oracle Come? Kubernetes Operator!!!&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Cornelia Biacsics – The PostgreSQL village&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar – PostgreSQL Compatibility Index&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Derk van Veen – Public speaking as an introvert&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Debate participants:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dmitry Fomin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emrah Becer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Battiato&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matt Cornillon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gianni Ciolli&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Guy Gyles&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Luigi Nardi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayur555b/"&gt;Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar&lt;/a&gt; published &lt;a href="https://drunkdba.medium.com/unsung-heros-of-postgres-episode-i-b9a7056447d2"&gt;a blog post&lt;/a&gt; highlighting Slack and Telegram chats contributions.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Medium-sized PostgreSQL Google Summer of Code projects are successfully completed! Mentees are:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmed-gouda-1462b022b"&gt;Ahmad Gouda&lt;/a&gt;; Mentors: &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/akshat_jaimini/"&gt;Akshat Jaimini&lt;/a&gt;, Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gaurav-patidar-809997207/"&gt;Gaurav Patidar&lt;/a&gt;; Mentors: Pavlo Golub, &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rajivharlalka/"&gt;Rajiv Harlalka&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mankiratsingh1315/"&gt;Mankirat Singh&lt;/a&gt;; Mentors: &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/david_e_wheeler/"&gt;David Wheeler&lt;/a&gt;, Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2025 09:32:02 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/51/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the weeks 32 - 35 (2025-08-04 - 2025-08-28)</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/49/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Clearly it's summer time in the Northern Hemisphere and we haven't been as punctual with our recognition posts! We'll resume to a more regular schedule, promised!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Aug, 28 Peter Zaitsev and Emma Saroyan organised &lt;a href="https://lnkd.in/eBQMbgCn"&gt;PG Armenia x Percona University&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Peter Zaitsev&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andrey Borodin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emma Saroyan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Konstantin Trushin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dmitrii Kochetov&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexey Palazhchenko&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alex Demidoff&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Eugene Klimov&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kim Saroyan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexander Zaitsev&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aya Guseinova&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Piotr Kalmukhyan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://pghyd.in/hyd-pgdays-2025/"&gt;Hyderabad Postgres Days 2025&lt;/a&gt; took place on August 21-22.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Organisers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ameen Abbas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hari Kiran P&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rajesh Madiwale&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;CfP Committee: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Deepak Maht&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gayathri Varadarajan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;HariKrishna B&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jobin Augustine&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Workshops: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jobin Augustine &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bikash Chandra &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sashikanth Pattanaik&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Neeta Goel &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ramanathan Natarajan&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ameen Abbas &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rajesh Madiwale&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Padma MP &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pranay Shree&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Akshat Jaimini&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shreya Aithal&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aswini Kumar Tummak&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sai Krishna Namburu&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sivasankar Prasad&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kattamuri Kowshiq&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ragesh Hajela&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chiranmoy Bhattacharya&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;InduTeja Aligeti&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Bhavani Akundi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kshetrapaldesi Tutika&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yogesh Jain&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nikhil Hegde&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vikas Gupta&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rajesh Madiwale&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aryan Sharma&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lahari Giddi&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keerthi Seetha&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Amit Jain&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Shameer Bhupathy&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jobin Augustine&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Aug, 21th, Emma Saroyan organised the &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/armenia-postgresql-user-group/events/310421169/"&gt;Armenian PostgreSQL User Group&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andrey Borodin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Maksim Dubakin &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On Aug, 14th, Emma Saroyan and Vladimir Poghosyan organised and spoke at the &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/armenia-postgresql-user-group/events/310352352/"&gt;Armenia PostgreSQL User Group Meetup&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgreswomen.in/pwi-virtual-summit"&gt;Postgres Woman India Virtual Summit&lt;/a&gt; happened on August 6th, 2025. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Organised by:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hari Kiran &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Aarti Nadekar &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kalyani Madipadga&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Praveena Sivasankar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Emma Saroyan &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tarunikaa Kumar &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Taticherla Begum &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Lahiri Giddi &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Keerthi Seetha&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:52:42 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/49/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week of 2025-04-14 (Week 15)</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/38/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;April 9 &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/christoph_berg/"&gt;Christoph Berg&lt;/a&gt; spoke at the &lt;a href="https://www.meetup.com/postgres-extensions-ecosystem-mini-summits/events/306682786/"&gt;Postgres Extensions Ecosystem Mini-Summit #3&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="https://justatheory.com/shared/extension-ecosystem-summit/apt-extension-packaging.pdf"&gt;slides&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35a7YCEfaRY"&gt;recording&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://justatheory.com/2025/04/mini-summit-three/"&gt;transcript&lt;/a&gt;), a series of virtual events leading up to the gathering at PGConf.Dev. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/andrew_atkinson/"&gt;Andrew Atkinson&lt;/a&gt; joined the Talking Postgres Podcast to talk about “Helping Rails developers learn Postgres”, back in November. He wrote &lt;a href="https://andyatkinson.com/helping-rails-developers-learn-postgres-with-andrew-atkinson"&gt;a blog about it&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:31:05 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/38/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week of 2025-04-07 (Week 14)</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/37/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/open-source-leadership-with-bruce-momjian"&gt;April 2nd the Talking Postgres podcast&lt;/a&gt; airs live, with Claire Giordano as the host, Bruce Momjian as the guest, and Aaron Wislang as its producer. &lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/henrietta_dombrovskaya/"&gt;Henrietta Dombrovskaya&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://hdombrovskaya.wordpress.com/2025/04/02/please-welcome-prairie-postgres/"&gt;kicked off&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="https://prairiepostgres.org/"&gt;Prairie Postgres&lt;/a&gt;, with help from Pat Wright, Dian Fay and Anna Bailliekova.&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:28:25 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/37/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week of 2025-03-31 (Week 13)</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/36/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/gulcinyildirim/"&gt;Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek&lt;/a&gt; organized the [Prague PostgreSQL Meetup, March Edition on March 31st]((https://www.meetup.com/prague-postgresql-meetup/events/306440481). &lt;a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mayur555b/"&gt;Mayuresh B&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/tomas_vondra/"&gt;Tomáš Vondra&lt;/a&gt; presented sessions. &lt;a href="https://github.com/gulcin/prague-postgres-meetup/tree/main/March-2025-meetup"&gt;Slides are available here&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p&gt;David Wheeler, Floor Drees, Keith Fiske and Yurii Rashkovskii organize a series of virtual gatherings to explore the current state and future of Postgres extension registration, packaging, and distribution, ahead of the Postgres Extensions Ecosystem Summit at PGConf.Dev. March 26, Peter Eisentraut (EDB) talked about implementing an extension search path (&lt;a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtnt06zhONk"&gt;recording&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://justatheory.com/shared/extension-ecosystem-summit/implementing-an-extension-search-path.pdf"&gt;slides&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="https://justatheory.com/2025/04/mini-summit-two/"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:58:07 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/36/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week of 2025-03-24 (Week 12)</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/35/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Nordic PGDay (March 18) was organized by Daniel Gustafsson, Magnus Hagander, Georgios Kokolatos. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The following speakers contributed with a talk:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Chris Ellis - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6427-postgresql-tips-tricks-for-app-devs"&gt;PostgreSQL Tips &amp;amp; Tricks For App Devs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alexander Kukushkin - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6403-pg_upgrade-like-a-boss/"&gt;pg_upgrade like a boss!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dr. Luigi Nardi - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6554-unlock-postgresql-performance-ai-powered-tuning-with-dbtune/"&gt;Unlock PostgreSQL performance: AI-powered tuning with DBtune&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ants Aasma - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6555-taming-write-latencies-with-patroni-quorum-mode/"&gt;Taming write latencies with Patroni quorum mode&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Kaarel Moppel - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6220-postgres-test-data-generation-101/"&gt;Postgres test data generation 101&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dennis Rilorin - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6556-multi-postgres-enterprise-ready-postgresql"&gt;Multi-postgres: Enterprise ready PostgreSQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Nikolai Utzon-Meiland - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/speaker/1291-nikolai-utzon-meiland/"&gt;Postgres is evolving from a Database to a platform for AI workloads —are you ready?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dmytro Hnatiuk - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6116-from-60-million-to-25-billion-8-years-of-scaling-a-core-system-with-postgresql-in-fintech/"&gt;From 60 Million to 25 Billion: 8 Years of Scaling a Core System with PostgreSQL in Fintech&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Priyanka Chatterjee - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6140-your-postgresql-database-performance-radar-pgbadger/"&gt;Your PostgreSQL Database performance radar: pgBadger&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Derk van Veen - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6408-leveraging-table-partitioning-for-query-performance-and-data-archiving/"&gt;Leveraging table partitioning for query performance and data archiving&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Vik Fearing - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6042-window-functions-are-easier-and-more-powerful-than-you-think/"&gt;Window Functions Are Easier and More Powerful Than You Think&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andrzej Nowicki - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6246-from-queries-to-pints-building-a-beer-recommendation-system-with-pgvector/"&gt;From Queries to Pints: Building a Beer Recommendation System with pgvector&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning Talks: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Christophe Pettus - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6631-lightning-talk-first-responders/"&gt;First Responders&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6632-lightning-talk-play-wordle-with-postgresql/"&gt;Play Wordle with PostgreSQL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gündüz - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/nordicpgday2025/schedule/session/6633-lightning-talk-the-state-of-postgresql-rpms/"&gt;The state of PostgreSQL RPMs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Program Committee: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Georgios Kokolatos &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Stefanie Janine Stölting &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dennis Rilorin&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Birk&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;hr /&gt;
&lt;p&gt;PGDay Paris (March 20) was organized by Eliza Bennett, Julien Riou (OVHcloud), Stéphanie Baltus-Bergamo (Kanop), Valeria Kaplan (Data Egret), Vik Fearing (EDB.)&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The speakers: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ellyne Phneah - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2025/schedule/session/6334-tuning-community-parameters-hosting-postgresql-events-that-perform/"&gt;Tuning community parameters: Hosting PostgreSQL events that perform&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2025/schedule/session/6399-professional-postgresql-monitoring-made-easy/"&gt;Professional PostgreSQL monitoring made easy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matt Cornillon - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2025/schedule/session/6369-full-text-search-explained-from-a-to-z-with-french-food/"&gt;Full-Text-Search Explained from A to Z with French Food&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dirk Krautschick - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2025/schedule/session/6268-why-postgresql-people-should-really-care-about-kafka-and-debezium/"&gt;Why PostgreSQL people should really care about Kafka and Debezium?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Viktoriia Hrechukha - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2025/schedule/session/6367-postgresql-and-nodejs-as-a-core-feature-of-backend-for-frontend/"&gt;PostgreSQL and NodeJs as a Core Feature of Backend for Frontend&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Hana Litavská  - &lt;a href="https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgdayparis2025/schedule/session/6388-explore-the-role-of-postgresql-in-gitlab-ecosystem/"&gt;Explore the role of PostgreSQL in GitLab ecosystem&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Lightning talks: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub - Playing Wordle with PostgreSQL&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Reda Agaoua - Challenging TDE&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Martin Marques - A series of unfortunate events with backups&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Floor Drees and Boriss Mejias - Finding your next karaoke song with Postgres&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Xavier Fischer - pgcap2latex&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gunduz - 70+ slides for light ranting about packaging&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Code of Conduct Committee:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Eliza Bennett&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Floor Drees (EDB)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matthieu Cornillon (Google)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:49:01 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/35/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week of 2025-03-17 (Week 11)</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/34/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;PostgreSQL Person of the week: &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/emma_saroyan/"&gt;Emma Saroyan&lt;/a&gt;. Thanks Andreas Scherbaum, for publishing these interviews since - &lt;em&gt;checks notes&lt;/em&gt; - February 2020!&lt;/p&gt;</description><pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 14:21:20 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/34/</guid></item><item><title>Contributions for the week of 2025-02-03 (Week 5 overview)</title><link>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/30/</link><description>&lt;p&gt;Organizing Committee FOSDEM PGDay and the PostgreSQL dev room at FOSDEM: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/dave_page/"&gt;Dave Page&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/magnus_hagander/"&gt;Magnus Hagander&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Andreas Scherbaum&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/devrim_gunduz/"&gt;Devrim Gündüz&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ilya Kosmodemiansky&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/jimmy_angelakos/"&gt;Jimmy Angelakos&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talk Selection Committee FOSDEM PGDay and the PostgreSQL dev room at FOSDEM: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Samed Yildirim&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/pavlo_golub/"&gt;Pavlo Golub&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/floor_drees/"&gt;Floor Drees&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Devrim Gündüz (non-voting).&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Other volunteers for FOSDEM PGDay and the PostgreSQL dev room: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Marc Fournier&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Wieremjewicz&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dave Pitts&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matthias van der Meent&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/stefanie_janine_stoelting/"&gt;Stefanie Janine Stoelting&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Natalia Vinokurova&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/federico_campoli/"&gt;Federico Campoli&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Haas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/julian_markwort/"&gt;Julian Markwort&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/gunnar_bluth/"&gt;Gunnar Bluth&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Johan Maes&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Boriss Mejias&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/chris_ellis/"&gt;Chris Ellis&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/andrew_dunstan/"&gt;Andrew Dunstan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Yanic Motte&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/karen_jex/"&gt;Karen Jex&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Talk recordings for the PostgreSQL dev room: https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/track/postgresql/  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/why-mentor-postgres-developers-with-robert-haas"&gt;Talking Postgres podcast Feb 5th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Host: &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/claire_giordano/"&gt;Claire Giordano&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Guest: Robert Haas&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Producer: Aaron Wislang&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/how-i-got-started-as-a-developer-in-postgres-with-daniel-gustafsson"&gt;Talking Postgres podcast Jan 15th&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Host: Claire Giordano&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Guest: Daniel Gustafsson&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Producer: Aaron Wislang&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/leading-engineering-for-postgres-on-azure-with-affan-dar"&gt;Talking Postgres podcast Dec 4&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Host: Claire Giordano&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Guest: Affan Dar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Producer: Aaron Wislang&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/helping-rails-developers-learn-postgres-with-andrew-atkinson"&gt;Talking Postgres podcast Nov 13&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Host: Claire Giordano&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Guest: &lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/andrew_atkinson/"&gt;Andrew Atkinson&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Producer: Aaron Wislang&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The people that made &lt;a href="https://p2d2.cz/2025/"&gt;Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day&lt;/a&gt; (P2D2) a reality:
Organizers &amp;amp; CfP Committee: &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/tomas_vondra/"&gt;Tomáš Vondra&lt;/a&gt; (Microsoft)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/pavel_stehule/"&gt;Pavel Stěhule&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/ales_zeleny/"&gt;Aleš Zelený&lt;/a&gt; (Betsys)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Hák (EDB)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Roman Fišer&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Pěček&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek (Xata)&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Michal Valenta&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Matoušek &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Adéla Svitková&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Matěj Klonfar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Speakers and Training Lecturers:&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Alfredo Rodriguez / Wolfgres&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/alvaro_herrera/"&gt;Álvaro Herrera&lt;/a&gt; / EDB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ants Aasma / Cybertec&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/ayse_bilge_ince/"&gt;Bilge Ince&lt;/a&gt; / EDB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/bruce_momjian/"&gt;Bruce Momjian&lt;/a&gt; / EDB&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/alexander_kukushkin/"&gt;Alexander Kukushkin&lt;/a&gt; / Microsoft&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;David Pech&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Dirk Krautschick / Aiven &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Esther Minano / xata.io&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek / xata.io&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="https://postgresql.life/post/henrietta_dombrovskaya/"&gt;Henrietta Dombrovskaya&lt;/a&gt; / DRW&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Jan Suchánek / Baremon&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Josef Machytka / NetApp &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Mayuresh Bagayatkar&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Melih Mutlu / Microsoft&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavel Stěhule&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Pavlo Golub / Cybertec&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Robert Haas / EDB &lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Sadeq Dousti / Trade Republic&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Somdyuti Paul / Google&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Tomas Vondra / Microsoft&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;</description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Feb 2025 13:25:44 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://postgres-contrib.org/post/30/</guid></item></channel></rss>