Conference Sessions - PostgreSQL Development Conference 2025

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PostgreSQL Development Conference 2025. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

50 minute talk

Advanced testing with Injection Points (Michael Paquier)
Adventures in Extension Packaging (David E. Wheeler)
A journey toward the columnar data store - lessons from past discussions and new proposals. (Aya Iwata)
Application Development Challenges with Postgres (Dian Fay)
Changing shared_buffers on the fly (Ashutosh Bapat)
ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! Next Generation Automated Database Tuning (William Zhang)
Committer Review: An Exercise in Paranoia (Robert Haas)
Crafting exploits for historical CVEs (Andrey Borodin)
Designing and implementing a monitoring feature in PostgreSQL (Rahila Syed)
Detection and resolution of conflicts in logical replication (Ajin Cherian, Zhijie Hou)
Exploring the benefits of learned indexes in PostgreSQL: Theory and Implementation (GARY W EVANS, Nishchay Kothari)
Fraught Feedback: Trying and Failing to Implement Adaptive Behavior in Postgres (Melanie Plageman)
Improving scalability; Reducing overhead in shared memory (Matthias van de Meent)
Investigating Multithreaded PostgreSQL (Thomas Munro)
Keynote: From RAP to Snowflake - A Look at 50 Years of SQL DB Scalability (David J. DeWitt)
Multidimensional search strategies for composite B-Tree indexes (Peter V Geoghegan)
My Journey in PostgreSQL bug fixing (Bertrand Drouvot)
Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants (Gwen Shapira)
Revisiting XTM: A Practical Case Study Highlighting Its Needs (Yuya Watari)
Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI (Bohan Zhang)
Switching between query plans in real time (Switch Join) (Alena Rybakina)
The trouble with extensions (Marco Slot)
Vector search is now boring, but PostgreSQL has ways to go (Jonathan Katz)
What is new in C and POSIX? (Peter Eisentraut)
What went wrong with AIO (Andres Freund)
Writing fast C code for a modern CPU (and applying it to PostgreSQL) (David Rowley)

25 minute talk

Compiling Postgres to WASM with PGlite (Sam Willis)
Debugging Data Corruption in PostgreSQL (Palak Chaturvedi)
Everything You Need to Know About Diversity in 25 Minutes (Stacey Haysler)
Fast-path locking improvements in PG18 (Tomas Vondra)
Introducing a Temporal Benchmark in Benchbase (Paul Jungwirth)
PostgreSQL container groups, aka cgroups down the road. (Cédric Villemain)
PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force (Karen Jex)
postgresql.org: The hidden parts (Magnus Hagander)
Reproducible Postgres (Alvaro Hernandez, Javier Maestro)
Rethinking PostgreSQL Performance in the Age of Monster Hardware (Lætitia AVROT)
The Present and Future of VACUUM in PostgreSQL (Masahiko Sawada)
Tracking plan shapes over time with Plan IDs, and a new pg_stat_plans (Lukas Fittl)
What 10 Postgres Major Contributors Did to Become a Hacker (Claire Giordano)
What can Postgres learn from DuckDB? (Jelte Fennema-Nio)
What does moving to Pull Requests look like? The nginx story (Alastair Turner)

Alternative content

Advanced Patch Feedback Session (Invite Only) (Amit Kapila, Robert Haas, Tomas Vondra)
Community Meet and Eat (Melanie Plageman)
Developer Meeting (Invite Only) (Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman, Noah Misch, Peter Eisentraut)
Extension Ecosystem Summit (David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Keith Fiske, Yurii Rashkovskii)
Lightning Talks (Karen Jex, Masahiko Sawada)
Offline commitfest (poster session) (Andrey Borodin)
Postgres Community Summit (Andreas Scherbaum, Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Pat Wright, Teresa Giacomini)
PostgreSQL Community Booth (Andrey Borodin, Mark Wong, Stacey Haysler, Thomas Munro)
Postgres Women Breakfast (Karen Jex, Stacey Haysler)
Running at PGConf.dev (Yurii Rashkovskii)
Slonik Events Canada Annual General Meeting (Steve Singer)
Social ()
Student Breakfast (Melanie Plageman, Peter V Geoghegan)
Unconference (Nathan Bossart, Robert Haas)