Schedule

Don't forget to check out the ongoing activities throughout the conference, including the Community Booth and Poster Session!

Tuesday, May 13^th

Cartier A

Cartier B

Bonsecours

08:00–08:30
Foyer Breakfast
08:30–12:30
Cartier A Developer Meeting (Invite Only)
Cartier B Extension Ecosystem Summit
12:30–13:30
Lunch
13:30–14:00
Afternoon Session Intros
14:00–15:30
Cartier B Community Summit: Microconference 1
Bonsecours Advanced Patch Feedback Session
15:30–16:00
Foyer Coffee
16:00–17:30
Cartier B Community Summit: Microconference 2
Bonsecours Advanced Patch Feedback Session
17:30–20:30
Offsite Community Meet and Eat
Offsite Social Run (and Dinner)

Wednesday, May 14^th

Regence B2C

Cartier A

Cartier B

Bonsecours

07:30–08:45
Foyer Breakfast
Bonsecours Student Breakfast
08:45–09:00
Regence B2C Opening
09:00–09:50
Regence B2C Keynote: From RAP to Snowflake - A Look at 50 Years of SQL DB Scalability
(David DeWitt)
10:00–10:50
Regence B2C Investigating Multithreaded PostgreSQL
(Thomas Munro)
Cartier A Adventures in Extension Packaging
(David E. Wheeler)
Cartier B Exploring the benefits of learned indexes in PostgreSQL: Theory and Implementation
(GARY W EVANS, Nishchay Kothari)
11:00–11:30
Foyer Coffee
11:30–12:20
Regence B2C What is new in C and POSIX?
(Peter Eisentraut)
Cartier A The trouble with extensions
(Marco Slot)
Cartier B Revisiting XTM: A Practical Case Study Highlighting Its Needs
(Yuya Watari)
12:30–12:55
Regence B2C Compiling Postgres to WASM with PGlite
(Sam Willis)
Cartier A postgresql.org: The hidden parts
(Magnus Hagander)
Cartier B The Present and Future of VACUUM in PostgreSQL
(Masahiko Sawada)
13:00–14:00
Lunch
13:00–15:00
Bonsecours PGCA
14:00–14:50
Regence B2C Committer Review: An Exercise in Paranoia
(Robert Haas)
Cartier A Multidimensional search strategies for composite B-Tree indexes
(Peter V Geoghegan)
Cartier B ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! Next Generation Automated Database Tuning
(William Zhang)
15:00–15:50
Regence B2C Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI
(Bohan Zhang)
Cartier A A journey toward the columnar data store - lessons from past discussions and new proposals
(Aya Iwata)
Cartier B Designing and implementing a monitoring feature in PostgreSQL
(Rahila Syed)
16:00–16:30
Foyer Coffee
16:30–16:55
Regence B2C Tracking plan shapes over time with Plan IDs, and a new pg_stat_plans
(Lukas Fittl)
Cartier A Debugging Data Corruption in PostgreSQL
(Palak Chaturvedi)
Cartier B PostgreSQL container groups, aka cgroups down the road.
(Cédric Villemain)
16:30–17:25
Bonsecours Crafting exploits for historical CVEs
(Andrey Borodin)
17:00–17:25
Regence B2C What 10 Postgres Major Contributors Did to Become a Hacker
(Claire Giordano)
Cartier A Reproducible Postgres
(Javier Maestro, Alvaro Hernandez)
Cartier B Introducing a Temporal Benchmark in Benchbase
(Paul Jungwirth)
17:30–18:00
18:00–21:00
Offsite 🎉 Social 🎉

Thursday, May 15^th

Regence B2C

Cartier A

Cartier B

Regence A

08:30–09:30
Foyer Breakfast
Regence A Postgres Women Breakfast
09:30–10:20
Regence B2C Changing shared_buffers on the fly
(Ashutosh Bapat)
Cartier A My Journey in PostgreSQL bug fixing
(Bertrand Drouvot)
Cartier B Application Development Challenges with Postgres
(Dian Fay)
10:30–11:00
Coffee
11:00–11:25
Regence B2C Fast-path locking improvements in PG18
(Tomas Vondra)
Cartier A PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Task Force
(Karen Jex)
Cartier B Rethinking PostgreSQL Performance in the Age of Monster Hardware
(Lætitia AVROT)
11:30–12:20
Regence B2C What went wrong with AIO
(Andres Freund)
Cartier A Detection and resolution of conflicts in logical replication
(Zhijie Hou, Ajin Cherian)
Cartier B Switching between query plans in real time (Switch Join)
(Alena Rybakina)
12:30–13:30
Lunch
Cartier B Slonik Events Canada AGM
13:30–14:20
Regence B2C Vector search is now boring, but PostgreSQL has ways to go
(Jonathan Katz)
Cartier A Improving scalability; Reducing overhead in shared memory
(Matthias van de Meent)
Cartier B Advanced testing with Injection Points
(Michael Paquier)
14:30–14:55
Regence B2C What can Postgres learn from DuckDB?
(Jelte Fennema-Nio)
Cartier A What does moving to Pull Requests look like? The nginx story
(Alastair Turner)
Cartier B Everything You Need to Know About Diversity in 25 Minutes
(Stacey Haysler)
15:00–15:30
Foyer Coffee
15:30–16:20
Regence B2C Writing fast C code for a modern CPU (and applying it to PostgreSQL)
(David Rowley)
Cartier A Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants
(Gwen Shapira)
Cartier B Fraught Feedback: Trying and Failing to Implement Adaptive Behavior in Postgres
(Melanie Plageman)
16:30–17:30
Regence B2C Lightning Talks

Friday, May 16^th

Regence B2C

Cartier A

Cartier B

08:00–09:00
Foyer Breakfast
09:00–10:00
Regence B2C Unconference Organizing
10:00–10:30
Foyer Coffee
10:30–11:30
Regence B2C Scaling PostgreSQL Development
Cartier A Autovacuum Pacing, Prioritization, and Parallelization Considerations
Cartier B Can the Community Support an Additional Batch Executor?
11:30–12:30
Regence B2C Multithreaded PostgreSQL (2025 edition)
Cartier A The Future of pg_stat_statements
Cartier B Better Logging
12:30–13:30
Lunch
13:30–14:30
Regence B2C Fixing TOAST
Cartier A Commit Order on Standbys/CSN Snapshots
Cartier B Expand HOT Updates
14:30–15:30
Regence B2C Making Planner Decisions Clear
Cartier A Global Indexes
Cartier B Things We Love about PGConf.dev + Ideas for the Future
15:30–16:00
Regence B2C Closing
16:00–16:30
Foyer Coffee