##PgConfDEV
The ##PostgreSQL Development Conference has begun! 💥 Looking forward to seeing all the 🐘 Postgres people. Seen today near the registration desk at ##PGConfdev in Montréal: Magnus Hagander, Katherine Saar, Paul Ramsey, & Steve Singer
May 13, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Pics of #PostgreSQL people I admire ❤️

Thomas Munro @tmunro.bsky.social is a Postgres major contributor, committer, & is someone I will always pick up the phone for. ☎️ He led the effort to create Streaming IO in PG17 & gave a keynote at @posetteconf.com 2024

Pic of Thomas from #PGConfdev 2024
November 26, 2024 at 8:47 PM
We've posted a video of Sam Willis's talk Compiling Postgres to WASM with PGlite (PGConf.dev 2025) https://youtu.be/hlW...
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June 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Now presenting at ##PGConfdev, Karen Jex of Crunchy Data is giving an update about the ##PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force, to help people understand what’s happening (and what you can do to help)
May 15, 2025 at 3:24 PM
At ##PGConfdev 2025 in Montreal, Masahiko Sawada of AWS delivered a talk about a popular subject amongst ##PostgreSQL hackers: "The Present and Future of VACUUM in PostgreSQL" (better pic in this post!)
June 1, 2025 at 12:01 AM
This pic is of Aya Iwata of Fujitsu, giving a talk at ##PGConfdev in Montreal last week about "A journey toward the columnar data store - lessons from past discussions and new proposals" (Photo cred to David Rader)
May 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Seen at the podium at ##PGConfdev last week in Montréal, this is ##PostgreSQL committer Peter Geoghegan of AWS presenting on "Multidimensional search strategies for composite B-Tree indexes"
May 23, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Seen last week in Montréal, a subset of the 26 amazing on-site volunteers who donated their time & energy to make ##PGConfdev 2025 the amazing ##PostgreSQL conference that it was. Help us say 🙏 thank you 🙏 to all 26 volunteers. 👏
May 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM
If you care about analytics engines & ##PostgreSQL, you would likely enjoy this ##PGConfdev talk by Jelte Fennema-Nio of MotherDuck, titled “What Can Postgres Learn From DuckDB?”
May 15, 2025 at 6:48 PM
On stage at ##PGConfdev is Postgres committer Tomas Vondra of Microsoft is presenting on “Fast-path Locking Improvements in PG18”
May 15, 2025 at 3:09 PM
On stage at ##PGConfdev is Rahila Syed of Microsoft, presenting on “Designing and Implementing a Monitoring Feature in PostgreSQL” (and it’s fun!)
May 14, 2025 at 7:33 PM
The brilliant Magnus Hagander is now on stage at ##PGConfdev presenting about “PostgreSQL.org: The Hidden Parts”, giving the audience a peek at all the PGInfra work behind the ##PostgreSQL project’s website
May 14, 2025 at 4:44 PM
The #CFP deadlines for 4 different #PostgreSQL conferences are upon us! One of them, #PGConfdev, is this Mon Jan 6. So if you want to share your 🐘 Postgres stories, it's time to carpe diem ⏰ & submit your talk proposals.

Boosts 🚀 appreciated to help spread the word #PGDayCHI #PGConfDE #PosetteConf
January 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Today at @pgconf.dev 🐘 Vancouver 🇨🇦, Andreas Scherbaum and I are looking at the numbers and posing the question that should be on everyone's mind. Fletcher (room 1900) at 15:30 — #PostgreSQL Commitfest Metrics: A Quantitative Analysis 2026.pgconf.dev/session/635

#OpenSource #Postgres #Dev #PGConfdev
PGConf.dev 2026
PGConf.dev 2026 will be held on May 19–22 in Vancouver, BC to bring users, developers, and organizers together to advance PostgreSQL development.
PGConf.dev
May 20, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Here is a pic of Gwen Shapira of Nile at ##PGConfdev 2025, giving her talk on "Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants" (We have so much gratitude 🙏 for all the great ##PostgreSQL talks 🐘 from all the great speakers—like Gwen!)
May 25, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Seen yesterday at ##PGConfdev, here is Palak Chaturvedi of Microsoft giving a talk about “Debugging Data Corruption in PostgreSQL”
May 16, 2025 at 9:06 PM
At ##PGConfdev today is David Rowley of Microsoft presenting on “Writing fast C code for a modern CPU (and applying it to ##PostgreSQL)” & it’s pretty obvious that David cares a lot about performance
May 15, 2025 at 8:14 PM
On stage at ##PGConfdev is Jonathan Katz of AWS giving an energetic talk titled “ Vector search is now boring, but PostgreSQL has ways to go” and we don’t think it’s boring at all
May 15, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Happening at ##PGConfdev, a different kind of talk from Andres Freund of Microsoft—in which he reflects on one of the most exciting projects in ##PostgreSQL 18 with his talk titled: “What went wrong with AIO”
May 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Happening now at ##PGConfdev, Bertrand Drouvot of AWS is on stage, live demo’ing his way through his talk about his journey in PostgreSQL bug fixing — so far, so good
May 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
@pgconf.dev kicks off today in Montréal 🇨🇦 and we’re proud to support as a Bronze sponsor. Grab some ✨ sparkly Xata stickers at the front desk! We donated a ticket 🎟️ through
@pgus.bsky.social to support broader access and representation 🌍

#PGConfDev #Postgres
May 13, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Seen earlier this week at ##PGConfdev, this is Claire Giordano of Microsoft giving a talk titled “What 10 Postgres Major Contributors Did to Become a Hacker”, chock full of real-life examples and stories
May 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Voting for unconference sessions here on Day 4 of ##PGConfdev had some predictable winners (e.g. scaling PG development, multithreaded ##PostgreSQL) & a few surprises too. And now the collaboration begins!
May 16, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Next up for ##PostgreSQL lightning talks at ##PGConfdev is Lukas Fittl of pganalyze, presenting about "shared_blks_hit_distinct and how we can make it work"
May 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM
On stage giving a lightning talk at ##PGConfdev is Grant Zhou from Highgo, his talk is titled "Connecting the World with Open Source"
May 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM