Schedule - PGConf.dev 2026

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Tuesday, May 19

Fletcher (1900)
Labatt (1700)
Canfor (1600)
Cominco (1415)
Scotiabank (1315)
Xerox (1500)
RBC Executive (2200)
Concourse
07:30 - 08:30
Community Newcomer Welcome Breakfast
Floor Drees, Peter V Geoghegan
07:30 - 08:30
Breakfast
08:30 - 08:50
Welcome
Claire Giordano, Robert Haas
09:00 - 09:50
Beyond the source: the human architecture of PostgreSQL
Floor Drees, Hari Kiran, Jimmy Angelakos, Miaolai Zhou, Valeria Kaplan
09:00 - 09:50
How immutability challenges extension packaging and distribution
Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii
09:00 - 09:50
Making PostgreSQL ecosystem packaging visible
Christoph Berg, Devrim Gündüz
09:00 - 09:50
PostgreSQL Community Exhibitions
Mark Wong, Robert Treat
09:00 - 09:50
PostgreSQL Hacking 101: Build, Break, Debug, Repeat
Andrey Borodin
09:00 - 09:50
[closed meeting] PostgreSQL Committers Meeting
Peter Eisentraut
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee
10:30 - 11:20
What's Missing in Postgres?
Bruce Momjian
10:30 - 11:20
Onboarding New Community Members to PostgreSQL
Cornelia Biacsics, Hari Kiran, Robert Haas
10:30 - 11:20
Extending Authorisation and Authentication
Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii
10:30 - 11:20
The Road to Enterprise-Grade Logical Replication: Feedback and Roadmap Brainstorming
Amit Kapila
10:30 - 11:20
Slonik Events Canada AGM
Daniel Gustafsson, Jonathan Katz, Magnus Hagander, Steve Singer
10:30 - 11:20
Translators and Translation Tooling
Peter Eisentraut
11:30 - 12:20
Panel Discussion: Real-Time Patch Idea Evaluation
Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas, Tom Lane
11:30 - 12:20
Recognizing Contributions
Joe Conway
11:30 - 12:20
Extensions and upgrades
Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii
11:30 - 12:20
Meetup planning and efforts
Andreas Scherbaum, Cornelia Biacsics
11:30 - 12:20
Stop Debating, Start Implementing: Unifying TDE Efforts for Postgres
Kai Wagner
11:30 - 12:20
OAuth Working Group
Jacob Champion
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
Why is PostgreSQL Terrible?
Christophe Pettus
13:30 - 14:20
Give feedback to the PostgreSQL Security Team
Joe Conway, Noah Misch
13:30 - 14:20
Hooks and APIs: What to expose in the core
Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii
13:30 - 14:20
PostgreSQL Community Association AGM and Q&A
Claire Giordano, Dave Page, Jaime Casanova, Jonathan Katz, Peter Eisentraut, Steve Singer
13:30 - 14:20
Multithreading working group
Greg Burd, Heikki Linnakangas, Matthias van de Meent, Peter Eisentraut, Thomas Munro
14:30 - 15:20
PostgreSQL at 30: Community Moments That Matter
Valeria Kaplan
14:30 - 15:20
Decentralizing safety: a proposal for local Code of Conduct response
Floor Drees, Stacey Haysler
14:30 - 15:20
To extend, to contribute, or to petition to core?
Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii
14:30 - 15:20
Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices Live
Ants Aasma, Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Pavlo Golub
14:30 - 15:20
Graph database developer meeting
Ashutosh Bapat
14:30 - 15:20
[closed meeting] PostgreSQL Security Team
Noah Misch
15:30 - 16:00
Tea
16:00 - 16:50
Unexpected successes & epic failures by PostgreSQL committers: A Roundtable
Álvaro Herrera, Claire Giordano, Daniel Gustafsson, Greg Burd, Peter Eisentraut, Thomas Munro
16:00 - 16:50
Establishing the PostgreSQL standard: What's Postgres compatible?
Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Jimmy Angelakos
16:00 - 16:50
Extension Summit open discussion readout
Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii
16:00 - 16:50
Path to batched and vectorized execution primitives in core postgres executor
Amit Langote
17:00 - 21:00
Meet + Eat (Tuesday)
Paul Ramsey
17:30 - 18:30
Social Run
Yurii Rashkovskii

Wednesday, May 20

Fletcher (1900)
Labatt (1700)
Canfor (1600)
Concourse
Rogue Kitchen
SWITCH
07:30 - 08:30
Postgres Women Breakfast
Stacey Haysler
07:30 - 08:30
Breakfast
08:30 - 08:55
Opening & Commemorative Poster Giveaway
Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman
09:00 - 09:50
Let’s talk about building the next generation of Postgres open source contributors
Claire Giordano
09:00 - 09:50
Update on index prefetching
Peter V Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra
09:00 - 09:50
Connection Pooling Beyond PgBouncer: A Custom Approach for Distributed PostgreSQL
Manan Gupta
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee
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
The Edge of ACID with Injection Points
Andrey Borodin
11:30 - 11:55
Internal data value representation in PostgreSQL.
Amul Sul
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch
13:00 - 13:50
Optimizing code in the hot path; with examples from tuple deformation
David Rowley
13:00 - 13:50
Data lakes and Icebergs in Postgres with pg_lake
Marco Slot
13:00 - 13:50
Join Statistics
Corey Huinker
14:00 - 14:50
pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
Robert Haas
14:00 - 14:50
Scaling Logical Replication: Parallel Apply and Centralized Decoding
Amit Kapila, Hayato Kuroda
14:00 - 14:50
PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud
Raluca Constantin
15:00 - 15:30
Tea
15:30 - 15:55
PostgreSQL Commitfest Metrics: A Quantitative Analysis
Andreas Scherbaum, Jimmy Angelakos
15:30 - 15:55
Semi-Joins in PostgreSQL
Richard Guo
15:30 - 15:55
Deep dive into resource manager, error and interrupt handling.
Rahila Syed
16:00 - 16:25
The Missing Link: Connecting Tens of Thousands of Chinese Users to the PostgreSQL Core
Grant Zhou
16:00 - 16:25
Extending Extended Statistics to Joins
Alexandra Wang
16:00 - 16:25
Extensions for Everyone
Ruohang Feng
16:30 - 17:30
30 Years of PostgreSQL Retrospective
Bruce Momjian, Jan Wieck, Jolly Chen, Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman, Thomas Lockhart, Tom Lane, Vadim Mikheev
17:30 - 17:50
Group Photo: everyone!
Noah Misch
17:50 - 18:00
Group Photo: PostgreSQL Major Contributors
Noah Misch
18:15 - 21:15
Social
22:00 - 23:59
[advance signup required] pgkaraoke
Floor Drees, Peter V Geoghegan

Thursday, May 21

Fletcher (1900)
Labatt (1700)
Canfor (1600)
Cominco (1415)
Concourse
08:30 - 09:30
Breakfast
09:30 - 10:20
Text encoding débacles
Thomas Munro
09:30 - 10:20
How to Hack on Logical Replication: Insights from contributors
Hayato Kuroda, Zhijie Hou
09:30 - 10:20
Pushing the Limits of the Index API: Building a Columnar Store without a TAM
Stu Hood
10:30 - 11:00
Coffee
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
Temporal Data: A Roadmap
Paul Jungwirth
11:00 - 11:50
Is There a Future for Genetic and Learning-Based Methods in Query Optimizers?
Alena Rybakina
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
Serverside SNI in PostgreSQL 19
Daniel Gustafsson
12:00 - 12:25
"Developer U": Lessons Learned from a Global Training Program for Postgres Developers
Andrew Dunstan
12:00 - 13:40
How to read and write the SQL standard
Peter Eisentraut
12:30 - 14:00
Lunch + Poster Session Showcase
14:00 - 14:50
Profiling Postgres Perils
Andres Freund
14:00 - 14:50
Postgres as an Execution Environment for AI Workflows: Failure Modes, Hooks, and Patchable Primitives
Vibhor Kumar
14:00 - 14:50
Building a Foreign Data Wrapper
David E. Wheeler
15:00 - 15:25
Batching in the Executor
Amit Langote
15:00 - 15:25
Defaults vs Reality: A Large-Scale Study of PostgreSQL GUC Usage
Palak Chaturvedi
15:00 - 15:25
How pg_query rewrites, deparses & formats any valid Postgres query
Keiko Oda, Lukas Fittl
15:30 - 16:15
Tea + Cake Cutting
Bruce Momjian, Gwen Shapira
16:15 - 16:40
Implementing DDL Deparsing and DDL Replication
Masahiko Sawada
16:15 - 16:40
My Journey into PostgreSQL Development
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
16:15 - 16:40
Oracle to PostgreSQL beyond the Syntax: When DBMS Design Differences Matter
Joshua Steinmann, Tino Engelbrecht
16:45 - 17:10
pgstats and PostgreSQL 18
Michael Paquier
16:45 - 17:10
The Five-year Patch mission: To boldly fail where no patch has failed before
Daniel Gustafsson
16:45 - 17:10
Ways to reduce the memory footprint of connections
Matthias van de Meent
17:15 - 18:15
Lightning Talks
Jeremy Schneider, Masahiko Sawada
18:15 - 21:15
Meet + Eat (Thursday)
Paul Ramsey

Friday, May 22

Fletcher (1900)
Labatt (1700)
Canfor (1600)
Concourse
08:00 - 09:00
Breakfast
09:00 - 09:50
Unconference Organizing
Andres Freund, Nathan Bossart
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee
10:30 - 11:20
Unconference: Global Indexes
10:30 - 11:20
Unconference: Feedback-Based Query Optimization
10:30 - 11:20
Unconference: Postgres + Other Communities
11:30 - 12:20
Unconference: Code, AI, and You
11:30 - 12:20
Unconference: Commit Sequence Numbers
11:30 - 12:20
Unconference: What Other Optimizer Stats Do We Want
12:30 - 13:30
Lunch
13:30 - 14:20
Unconference: How to do HA with Physical Replication
13:30 - 14:20
Unconference: Scaling pg_stat_statements
13:30 - 14:20
Unconference: TDE
14:30 - 15:20
Unconference: Logical Replication Warts and Missing Pieces
14:30 - 15:20
Unconference: Postgres CI
14:30 - 15:20
Unconference: Thing I Love About pgconf.dev + ideas for next year
15:30 - 16:00
Closing
Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman
16:00 - 16:30
Tea

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