Schedule - PGConf.dev 2026

You can find the full conference information at the conference website. This schedule is subject to changes. This page will be updated when any changes occur.

Tuesday, May 19

Fletcher
08:30 - 08:50
Welcome
09:00 - 09:50
Beyond the source: the human architecture of PostgreSQL
Floor Drees, Stacey Haysler
10:30 - 11:20
What's Missing in Postgres?
Bruce Momjian
11:30 - 12:20
Panel Discussion: Real-Time Patch Idea Evaluation
Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas
13:30 - 14:20
Why is PostgreSQL Terrible?
Christophe Pettus
14:30 - 15:20
PostgreSQL at 30: Community Moments That Matter
Valeria Kaplan
16:00 - 16:50
Unexpected successes & epic failures by PostgreSQL committers: A Roundtable
Claire Giordano, Greg Burd

Wednesday, May 20

Fletcher
Labatt
Canfor
07:30 - 08:30
Postgres Women Breakfast
Katharine Saar, Stacey Haysler
08:30 - 08:55
Opening
09:00 - 09:50
Let’s talk about building the next generation of Postgres open source contributors
Claire Giordano
09:00 - 09:50
Is There a Future for Genetic and Learning-Based Methods in Query Optimizers?
Alena Rybakina
09:00 - 09:50
Connection Pooling Beyond PgBouncer: A Custom Approach for Distributed PostgreSQL
Manan Gupta
10:30 - 11:20
Psycopg: 20 years of mostly friendly coexistence with libpq
Daniele Varrazzo
10:30 - 11:20
Experimenting with a Global Index in PostgreSQL: Design, Implementation, and Challenges
Dilip Kumar
10:30 - 11:20
Rethinking the Monolith: Evolving Postgres for Hundreds of Cores and Far Memory
Haibo Yan
11:30 - 11:55
Table repacking, done right
Álvaro Herrera
11:30 - 11:55
Finding the Invisible: Spotting Query Planning Issues Before They Appear
Andrei Lepikhov
11:30 - 11:55
Extensions for Everyone
Ruohang Feng
13:00 - 13:50
Data lakes and Icebergs in Postgres with pg_lake
Marco Slot
13:00 - 13:50
Update on index prefetching
Peter V Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra
13:00 - 13:50
Scaling Logical Replication: Parallel Apply and Centralized Decoding
Amit Kapila, Hayato Kuroda
14:00 - 14:50
pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
Robert Haas
14:00 - 14:50
PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud
Raluca Constantin
14:00 - 14:50
Optimizing code in the hot path; with examples from tuple deformation
David Rowley
15:30 - 15:55
PostgreSQL Commitfest Metrics: A Quantitative Analysis
Andreas Scherbaum, Jimmy Angelakos
15:30 - 15:55
The Edge of ACID with Injection Points
Andrey Borodin
15:30 - 15:55
Semi-Joins in PostgreSQL
Richard Guo
16:00 - 16:25
The Missing Link: Connecting Tens of Thousands of Chinese Users to the PostgreSQL Core
Grant Zhou
16:00 - 16:25
Deep dive into resource manager, error and interrupt handling.
Rahila Syed
16:00 - 16:25
Defaults vs Reality: A Large-Scale Study of PostgreSQL GUC Usage
Palak Chaturvedi
16:30 - 17:30
30 Years of PostgreSQL Retrospective
Bruce Momjian, Jan Wieck, Melanie Plageman
17:30 - 17:50
Group Photo: everyone!
Noah Misch

Thursday, May 21

Fletcher
Labatt
Canfor
Cominco
09:30 - 10:20
Text encoding débacles
Thomas Munro
09:30 - 10:20
Pushing the Limits of the Index API: Building a Columnar Store without a TAM
Stu Hood
09:30 - 10:20
We come in peace - lessons learned from MySQL at hyper scale
Sam Lambert
11:00 - 11:50
PostgreSQL as an open data format: 100x faster TPC-H queries through direct storage reads
Hristo Stoyanov, Jonathan Katz
11:00 - 11:50
Join Statistics
Corey Huinker
11:00 - 11:50
Temporal Data: A Roadmap
Paul Jungwirth
11:00 - 11:50
CREATE TABLE topics ();
Alastair Turner, Floor Drees
12:00 - 12:25
pg_textsearch: Native BM25 Full-Text Search in Postgres
Todd J. Green
12:00 - 12:25
"Developer U": Lessons Learned from a Global Training Program for Postgres Developers
Andrew Dunstan
12:00 - 12:25
Are we OAuth yet?
Andreas Karlsson
12:00 - 13:40
How to read and write the SQL standard
Peter Eisentraut
14:00 - 14:50
Profiling Postgres Perils
Andres Freund
14:00 - 14:50
Building a Foreign Data Wrapper
David E. Wheeler
14:00 - 14:50
What can Postgres learn from ClickHouse?
Alexey Milovidov
15:00 - 15:25
Batching in the Executor
Amit Langote
15:00 - 15:25
The Five-year Patch mission: To boldly fail where no patch has failed before
Daniel Gustafsson
15:00 - 15:25
Corruptions in PostgreSQL: Three cases, hard lessons
Nitin Jadhav
16:15 - 16:40
Learning PostgreSQL Hacking Fast: Lessons and Mistakes from a Newcomer
Chao Li
16:15 - 16:40
Oracle to PostgreSQL beyond the Syntax: When DBMS Design Differences Matter
Joshua Steinmann, Tino Engelbrecht
16:15 - 16:40
Implementing DDL Deparsing and DDL Replication
Masahiko Sawada
16:45 - 17:10
My Journey into PostgreSQL Development
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
16:45 - 17:10
Can We Skip Recovery? The Architecture of On-Demand WAL Replay.
Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla
16:45 - 17:10
pgstats and PostgreSQL 18
Michael Paquier
17:15 - 18:15
Lightning Talks

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