Conference Sessions - PGConf.dev 2026

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PGConf.dev 2026. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

25-Minute Talk

• Batching in the Executor (Amit Langote)
• Deep dive into resource manager, error and interrupt handling. (Rahila Syed)
• Defaults vs Reality: A Large-Scale Study of PostgreSQL GUC Usage (Palak Chaturvedi)
• "Developer U": Lessons Learned from a Global Training Program for Postgres Developers (Andrew Dunstan)
• Extending Extended Statistics to Joins (Alexandra Wang)
• Extensions for Everyone (Ruohang Feng)
• How pg_query rewrites, deparses & formats any valid Postgres query (Keiko Oda, Lukas Fittl)
• Implementing DDL Deparsing and DDL Replication (Masahiko Sawada)
• Internal data value representation in PostgreSQL. (Amul Sul)
• My Journey into PostgreSQL Development (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
• Oracle to PostgreSQL beyond the Syntax: When DBMS Design Differences Matter (Joshua Steinmann, Tino Engelbrecht)
• pgstats and PostgreSQL 18 (Michael Paquier)
• pg_textsearch: Native BM25 Full-Text Search in Postgres (Todd J. Green)
• PostgreSQL Commitfest Metrics: A Quantitative Analysis (Andreas Scherbaum, Jimmy Angelakos)
• Semi-Joins in PostgreSQL (Richard Guo)
• Serverside SNI in PostgreSQL 19 (Daniel Gustafsson)
• Table repacking, done right (Álvaro Herrera)
• The Edge of ACID with Injection Points (Andrey Borodin)
• The Five-year Patch mission: To boldly fail where no patch has failed before (Daniel Gustafsson)
• The Missing Link: Connecting Tens of Thousands of Chinese Users to the PostgreSQL Core (Grant Zhou)
• Ways to reduce the memory footprint of connections (Matthias van de Meent)

50-Minute Talk

• Building a Foreign Data Wrapper (David E. Wheeler)
• Connection Pooling Beyond PgBouncer: A Custom Approach for Distributed PostgreSQL (Manan Gupta)
• Data lakes and Icebergs in Postgres with pg_lake (Marco Slot)
• Experimenting with a Global Index in PostgreSQL: Design, Implementation, and Challenges (Dilip Kumar)
• How to Hack on Logical Replication: Insights from contributors (Hayato Kuroda, Zhijie Hou)
• Is There a Future for Genetic and Learning-Based Methods in Query Optimizers? (Alena Rybakina)
• Join Statistics (Corey Huinker)
• Let’s talk about building the next generation of Postgres open source contributors (Claire Giordano)
• Optimizing code in the hot path; with examples from tuple deformation (David Rowley)
• pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL? (Robert Haas)
• Postgres as an Execution Environment for AI Workflows: Failure Modes, Hooks, and Patchable Primitives (Vibhor Kumar)
• PostgreSQL as an open data format: 100x faster TPC-H queries through direct storage reads (Hristo Stoyanov, Jonathan Katz)
• PostgreSQL at 30: Community Moments That Matter (Valeria Kaplan)
• PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud (Raluca Constantin)
• Profiling Postgres Perils (Andres Freund)
• Psycopg: 20 years of mostly friendly coexistence with libpq (Daniele Varrazzo)
• Pushing the Limits of the Index API: Building a Columnar Store without a TAM (Stu Hood)
• Rethinking the Monolith: Evolving Postgres for Hundreds of Cores and Far Memory (Haibo Yan)
• Scaling Logical Replication: Parallel Apply and Centralized Decoding (Amit Kapila, Hayato Kuroda)
• Temporal Data: A Roadmap (Paul Jungwirth)
• Text encoding débacles (Thomas Munro)
• Update on index prefetching (Peter V Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra)
• What's Missing in Postgres? (Bruce Momjian)
• Why is PostgreSQL Terrible? (Christophe Pettus)

Workshop

• How to read and write the SQL standard (Peter Eisentraut)
• PostgreSQL Hacking 101: Build, Break, Debug, Repeat (Andrey Borodin)

Panel

• 30 Years of PostgreSQL Retrospective (Bruce Momjian, Jan Wieck, Jolly Chen, Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman, Thomas Lockhart, Tom Lane, Vadim Mikheev)
• Beyond the source: the human architecture of PostgreSQL (Floor Drees, Hari Kiran, Jimmy Angelakos, Miaolai Zhou, Valeria Kaplan)
• Closing (Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman)
• Lightning Talks (Jeremy Schneider, Masahiko Sawada)
• Opening & Commemorative Poster Giveaway (Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman)
• Panel Discussion: Real-Time Patch Idea Evaluation (Andres Freund, Heikki Linnakangas, Robert Haas, Tom Lane)
• Unexpected successes & epic failures by PostgreSQL committers: A Roundtable (Álvaro Herrera, Claire Giordano, Daniel Gustafsson, Greg Burd, Peter Eisentraut, Thomas Munro)
• Welcome (Claire Giordano, Robert Haas)

Other Ideas

• [advance signup required] pgkaraoke (Floor Drees, Peter V Geoghegan)
• Breakfast ()
• Breakfast ()
• Breakfast ()
• Breakfast ()
• Coffee ()
• Coffee ()
• Coffee ()
• Coffee ()
• Community Newcomer Welcome Breakfast (Floor Drees, Peter V Geoghegan)
• CREATE TABLE topics (); (Alastair Turner, Floor Drees)
• Group Photo: everyone! (Noah Misch)
• Group Photo: PostgreSQL Major Contributors (Noah Misch)
• Lunch ()
• Lunch ()
• Lunch ()
• Lunch + Poster Session Showcase ()
• Meet + Eat (Thursday) (Paul Ramsey)
• Meet + Eat (Tuesday) (Paul Ramsey)
• PostgreSQL Community Office Hours (Mark Wong, Stacey Haysler)
• Postgres Women Breakfast (Stacey Haysler)
• Social ()
• Social Run (Yurii Rashkovskii)
• Special PGConf.dev in-person commitfest (Peter Eisentraut)
• Tea ()
• Tea ()
• Tea ()
• Tea + Cake Cutting (Bruce Momjian, Gwen Shapira)
• Unconference (Andres Freund, Nathan Bossart)

Community Discussion - Open

• Decentralizing safety: a proposal for local Code of Conduct response (Floor Drees, Stacey Haysler)
• Establishing the PostgreSQL standard: What's Postgres compatible? (Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Jimmy Angelakos)
• Extensions and upgrades (Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii)
• Extension Summit open discussion readout (Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii)
• Give feedback to the PostgreSQL Security Team (Joe Conway, Noah Misch)
• Graph database developer meeting (Ashutosh Bapat)
• Hooks and APIs: What to expose in the core (Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii)
• How immutability challenges extension packaging and distribution (Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii)
• Making PostgreSQL ecosystem packaging visible (Christoph Berg, Devrim Gündüz)
• Meetup planning and efforts (Andreas Scherbaum, Cornelia Biacsics)
• Postgres On-Call Confessions: Worst Practices Live (Ants Aasma, Henrietta Dombrovskaya, Pavlo Golub)
• PostgreSQL Community Exhibitions (Mark Wong, Robert Treat)
• Recognizing Contributions (Joe Conway)
• Slonik Events Canada AGM (Daniel Gustafsson, Jonathan Katz, Magnus Hagander, Steve Singer)
• To extend, to contribute, or to petition to core? (Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii)
• Unconference: Code, AI, and You ()
• Unconference: Commit Sequence Numbers ()
• Unconference: Feedback-Based Query Optimization ()
• Unconference: Global Indexes ()
• Unconference: How to do HA with Physical Replication ()
• Unconference: Logical Replication Warts and Missing Pieces ()
• Unconference Organizing (Andres Freund, Nathan Bossart)
• Unconference: Postgres CI ()
• Unconference: Postgres + Other Communities ()
• Unconference: Scaling pg_stat_statements ()
• Unconference: TDE ()
• Unconference: Thing I Love About pgconf.dev + ideas for next year ()
• Unconference: What Other Optimizer Stats Do We Want ()

Community Discussion - Closed

• [closed meeting] PostgreSQL Committers Meeting (Peter Eisentraut)
• [closed meeting] PostgreSQL Security Team (Noah Misch)

Community Discussion - Working Group

• Extending Authorisation and Authentication (Alastair Turner, David E. Wheeler, Floor Drees, Yurii Rashkovskii)
• Multithreading working group (Greg Burd, Heikki Linnakangas, Matthias van de Meent, Peter Eisentraut, Thomas Munro)
• OAuth Working Group (Jacob Champion)
• Onboarding New Community Members to PostgreSQL (Cornelia Biacsics, Hari Kiran, Robert Haas)
• Path to batched and vectorized execution primitives in core postgres executor (Amit Langote)
• PostgreSQL Community Association AGM and Q&A (Claire Giordano, Dave Page, Jaime Casanova, Jonathan Katz, Peter Eisentraut, Steve Singer)
• Stop Debating, Start Implementing: Unifying TDE Efforts for Postgres (Kai Wagner)
• The Road to Enterprise-Grade Logical Replication: Feedback and Roadmap Brainstorming (Amit Kapila)
• Translators and Translation Tooling (Peter Eisentraut)