May 19, 2026 - May 22, 2026
Vancouver, BC |Canada
In-Person
PGConf.dev is where users, developers, and community organizers come together to focus on PostgreSQL development and community growth. Meet PostgreSQL contributors, learn about upcoming features, and discuss development problems with PostgreSQL enthusiasts.
We support the conference at the Gold sponsor level, Robert Haas is one of the organizers, and Jacob Champion is on the Program Committee. Our team is involved in a number of sessions.
Tuesday sessions:
- Floor Drees, with Hari Kiran (pgEdge), Jimmy Angelakos (pgEdge), Valeria Kaplan (Data Egret), and Miaolai Zhou (AWS) - Beyond the source: the human architecture of PostgreSQL
- Bruce Momjian - What's Missing in Postgres?
- The PostgreSQL Committers Meeting (closed meeting) Peter Eisentraut organizes
- Robert Haas joins the Onboarding New Community Members to PostgreSQL discussion session
- Peter Eisentraut is the facilitator for the Translators and Translation Tooling session
- Robert Haas moderates the Real-Time Patch Idea Evaluation panel
- Jacob Champion leads the OAuth Working Group
- Peter Eisentraut joins the PostgreSQL Community Association AGM & QnA, which is open to the public, but only members participate actively in the formal meeting portions.
- Floor Drees and Stacey Haysler (PGX) lead the discussion Decentralizing safety: a proposal for local Code of Conduct response
- Álvaro Herrera and Peter Eisentraut will join the Unexpected successes & epic failures by PostgreSQL committers roundtable with other Postgres committers Daniel Gustafsson and Thomas Munro from Microsoft, moderated by Claire Giordano and Greg Burd.
- The Extension Summit sessions that Floor Drees organizes with Alastair Turner (Percona), David Wheeler (Clickhouse), and Yurii Rashkovskii (Omnigres)
Wednesday sessions:
- Álvaro Herrera - Table repacking, done right
- Robert Haas - pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
- Andreas Scherbaum, w/ Jimmy Angelakos (pgEdge) - PostgreSQL Commitfest Metrics: A Quantitative Analysis
- Richard Guo - Semi-Joins in PostgreSQL
- Bruce Momjian, w/ Jan Wieck (pgEdge), and Melanie Plageman (Microsoft) - 30 Years of PostgreSQL Retrospective
Thursday sessions:
- Floor Drees, with Alastair Turner (Percona) - CREATE TABLE topics ();
- Andrew Dunstan - "Developer U": Lessons Learned from a Global Training Program for Postgres Developers
- Peter Eisentraut - How to read and write the SQL standard
- Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla - Can We Skip Recovery? The Architecture of On-Demand WAL Replay.