Conference Sessions - PGDay Chicago 2024

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PGDay Chicago 2024. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

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Database Administration

A look at the Elephant's trunk - PostgreSQL 17 (Magnus Hagander)
Automating Postgres Index Selection Using Constraint Programming (Lukas Fittl)
Becoming a PG_STAT_* (star) (Chirag Dave, Sami Imseih)
Beyond Joins and Indexes (Bruce Momjian)
Creating New PostgreSQL DBAs Out Of Available MySQL DBAs (Dave Stokes)
Diving into most common performance problems in PostgreSQL and how to fix them. (Divya Sharma)
For Your Eyes Only: Roles, Privileges, and Security in PostgreSQL (Ryan Booz)
How to detect and fix corruptions (Derk van Veen)
Postgres for the SQL Server DBA (Pat Wright)

PGDay Chicago

Application Development

How to understand EXPLAIN without dying in the attempt (Alfredo Rodriguez)
Live, hands-on, interactive: Mastering PostgreSQL queries as an App Developer (Andrew Atkinson)
–Mom, can we have G**gle Maps? –We have G**gle Maps at home (Jimmy Angelakos)
PostgreSQL with OpenAI: Building and Monetizing Generative AI Plugins (Denis Magda)

Postgres Hackers

Learnings from Extension Development in Rust & PGRX (Arda Aytekin, Aykut Bozkurt)
Probing PostgreSQL and Linux Kernel interactions (Krishnakumar Ravi)
Takeaways from Hacking on Postgres as a Newcomer (Melih Mutlu)

Postgres Community

Trying to be Barbie in Ken's Mojo Dojo Casa House (Karen Jex, Stacey Haysler)

Defies Categorization

Exploring Postgres Databases with Graphs (Dian Fay)
Human Beings Do Not Have a Primary Key (Christophe Pettus)
Map of Amazing Postgres Extensions You Might Not Know About (Claire Giordano)
Temporal Features in PostgreSQL: SQL Standard and Beyond (Henrietta Dombrovskaya)