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Contributions for week 42, 2025

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:13:53 +0000

Belgium Meetup: Tuesday, 14 October 2025 - organized by Boriss Mejias & Stefan Fercot

Speakers:

Niradj Selvam
Stefan Fercot

Contributions for week 41, 2025

Tue, 21 Oct 2025 13:12:39 +0000

Barcelona PostgreSQL User Group met on Tuesday, Oct 7, organized by Dave Pitts & Lauro Ojeda

Speakers:

Dave Pitts
Lauro Ojeda

Ellyne Phneah released two books:

The Social Code: Building a PostgreSQL Community Wired for Belonging
Decode PostgreSQL: Understanding the World's Most Powerful Open-Source Database Without Writing Code

Contributions for the week of 2025-06-23 (Week 26)

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 10:58:42 +0000

PUG Stuttgart

PUG Stuttgart happened on June, 26th - hosted by Aleshkova Daria

Speakers

Marco Klöckler about Semantics in the Cloud
Ilya Kosmodemiansky about Operating PostgreSQL as a Data Source for Analytics Pipelines
Sikandra Chaudhary about PostgreSQL 18: Exploring the Latest Innovations

Prague PostgreSQL Meetup

Prague PostgreSQL Meetup on June 23 organized by Gulcin Yildirim

Speakers

Henrietta Dombrovskaya about Securing Your PostgreSQL Data: A Comprehensive Guide to Protecting Your Database Assets
Boris Novikov about Querying Temporal Data in Postgres

Swiss PGDay 2025

Swiss PGDay 2025 took place on June 26th and 27th in Rapperswil (Switzerland)

Program committee

Organization committee

Speakers

Bruce Momjian How Open Source and Democracy Drive Postgres
Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL
Laurenz Albe Mach das nicht!
Patrick Stählin Using logical replication for fun and profit
Aarno Aukia Operating PostgreSQL at Scale: Lessons from Hundreds of Instances in Regulated Private Clouds
Bertrand Hartwig-Peillon pgAssistant
Gianni Ciolli The Why and What of WAL
Daniel Krefl Hacking pgvector for performance
Kaarel Moppel Das 1x1 der Testdatengenerierung mit Postgres
Franck Pachot Normalize or De-normalize? Relational SQL Columns or JSON Document Attributes?
Andreas Geppert Tabellen vs Objekte: warum nicht einfach beides (in Postgres)?
Devrim Gunduz Know the less known about PostgreSQL
Dirk Krautschick Benchmarking – Eine unerwartete Reise
Josef Machytka Building a Data Lakehouse with PostgreSQL: Dive into Formats, Tools, Techniques, and Strategies
Matthias Grömmer Graphdatenbanken für alle – Warum PostgreSQL mit Apache AGE eine echte Alternative zu Neo4j ist
Luigi Nardi A benchmark study on the impact of PostgreSQL server parameter tuning
Patrick Lauer Postgres with many data: To MAXINT and beyond
Renzo Dani From Oracle to PostgreSQL: A HARD Journey and an Open-Source Awakening
Dominik Frey Ein Ansatz zur Optimierung von raumbezogenen Datenbankabfragen mit PostGIS
Pavlo Golub Customizing the Wordle Game Experience with PostgreSQL
Andrew Farries Postgres schema migrations using the expand/contract pattern
Alessandro Cerioni Making sense of Waze traffic data with Python, TimescaleDB-PostGIS and JavaScript
Grant Fritchey Query Performance Monitoring For The Absolute Beginner

Lightning Talks

Josef Machytka, Boldly Migrate to PostgreSQL with credativ-pg-migrator
Pavlo Golub, Kudos for the rest of us
Audrius Meškauskas, Efficient Web Development with SeaORM and PostgreSQL.
Franck Pachot, NULL is unknown (yet)
Raphael Debinski, pgstat_snap – a (very) poor man’s ASH for PostgreSQL
Luigi Nardi, ML for Systems and Systems for ML
Johannes Graën, Travel Romania efficiently - Graph search with CTEs
Michael Hegyi, PG patching with GitLab pipelines
Marlene Retterer, Postgres and Web3
Kaarel Moppel, Postgres on spot VMs?
Laurenz Albe, The tower of Babel

New Book

Jimmy Angelakos released a book: PostgreSQL Mistakes and How to Avoid Them!

DATEV Database-Day

Hans-Jürgen Schönig held a talk at DATEV Database-Day about Speicher- und Connection Management in PostgreSQL

Contributions for the week of 2025-04-28 (Week 18)

Sat, 10 May 2025 12:05:38 +0000

Hans-Jürgen Schönig held a talk about PostgreSQL Security und Compliance von A-Z at the Grazer Linuxtage on Saturday, April, 26th.
The third event of Prague PostgreSQL Meetup 2025 series took place on Monday, April 28th. Pavel Stěhule and Mayuresh B. gave their talks.
Emma Saroyan organized the Armenia PostgreSQL Meetup. Elizabeth Garrett Christensen presented at the Meetup.
Henrietta Dombrovskaya organized PGDay Chicago 2025, with help from Devrim Gündüz, Mark Wong, Pat Wright and Carlos Aranibar. Speakers: Ryan Booz, Chelsea Dole, BAOVOLA Marie Anna, Paul Whalen, Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Gabriele Quaresima, Melih Mutlu, Keiko Oda, Shaun Thomas, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek, David George Andrew Pitts, Teresa Lopes, Jay Miller, Jimmy Zelinskie and Doğaç Eldenk.

Contributions for the week of 2025-03-10 (Week 10)

Thu, 27 Mar 2025 12:51:01 +0000

On March 12, 2025 Elizabeth Christensen organized Postgres Meetup for All and the event theme was Postgres Schema Migrations. The following people contributed with their respective talks:

Ryan Booz talked about Flyway product;
David Wheeler talked about open source project Sqitch;
Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek talked about open source tool pgroll.

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 12, David Wheeler (PGXN maintainer, Principal Architect at Tembo) presented a “State of the Extension Ecosystem” (slides, recording, blog)

PGConf India 2025 took place on March 05 - 07, 2025 in Bangalore, India. The Organizing Team of PGConf India 2025 consists of the following people:

The Program Committee entrusted with selecting talks and presentations for PGConf India, 2025 consists of the following people:

PostgreSQL Person of the week: Doug Ortiz. Interview conducted by: Andreas Scherbaum.

Contributions for the week of 2025-01-13 (Week 3 overview)

Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:19:07 +0000

PGDay CERN 2025 was held on January 17, 2025 at CERN, Genève, Switzerland

List of contributions:

Tobias Bussmann (Swiss PostgreSQL Users Group)
Maurizio De Giorgi (CERN)
Miroslav Potocky (CERN)
Rafal Kulaga (CERN)
Antonin Kveton (CERN)
Martin Zemko (CERN)
Adrien Obernesser (dbi services)
Gulcin Yildirim Jelinek (Xata)
Gabriele Bartolini (EDB)
Mr Leonardo Cecchi (EDB)
Daniel Krefl (Sednai)
Krzysztof Nienartowicz (Sednai)
Andrzej Nowicki (CERN)
Alastair Turner (Percona)
Andreas Geppert, ZKB
Markus Wanner, EBD
Daniel Westermann, dbi
Tom Hagel, Volue

Some Linkedin posts:

Contributions for the week of 2024-12-02 (week 49)

Wed, 18 Dec 2024 12:09:54 +0000

Federico Campoli and Vik Fearing organised PGDay/MED 2025 in Naples, Italy. Speakers presented Gabriele Quaresima, Ryan Booz, Gianluca Padovani, Patrick Lauer, Stefanie Janine Stölting, Fabiana Farias, Pavlo Golub, Devrim Gündüz.

Introducing postgres-contrib.org and the PostgreSQL Event Calendar at PGConf.EU Lightning Talks

Sat, 02 Nov 2024 11:05:26 +0000

Floor Drees and Andreas Scherbaum took the stage during the PGConf.EU lightning talks to present postgres-contrib.org and the PostgreSQL Event Calendar!
Slides are here.

Contributions for the week of 2024-09-16 (Week 38 overview)

Mon, 23 Sep 2024 10:08:14 +0000

Floor Drees wrote an article, how the Postgres community migrated to Mastodon, and which tools can be used.
Elodie Jex (Instagram: elodie.s_art_) designed the three proposals for the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force, from which one was selected as the final logo.
The following people contributed to the translation of the press release for the upcoming PostgreSQL v17 version:
- Adrian Klaver
- Alicja Kucharczyk
- Andrea Farci
- Andreas 'ads' Scherbaum
- Andrew Atkinson
- Anna Uraskova
- Carlos Chapi
- Cary Huang
- Daniel Gustafsson
- Daniel Westermann
- Dayeong Yoon
- Domenico Sgarbossa
- Ekaterina Kiryanova
- Elena Karavaeva
- Euler Taveira
- Gunnar "Nick" Bluth
- Grant Zhou
- Hervé Lefebvre
- Iis Khoerun Nisa
- Ioseph Kim
- Jaehan Choi
- Jean-Christophe Arnu
- Jimmy Angelakos
- Julyanto Sutandang
- Matthias van de Meent
- Michael Goldberg
- Nicolas Lutic
- Nozomi Anzai
- Pavlo Golub
- Peter Eisentraut
- Philippe Viegas
- Robert Haas
- Stefanie Janine Stölting
- Stéphane Schildknecht
- Szymon Lipiński
- Tetiana Petiurenko
- Xiangyu Liang
- Xueyu Gao
- Jonathan Katz managed the translation efforts.