Conference Sessions - PGDay Chicago 2025

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PGDay Chicago 2025. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

Defies Categorization

• Lightning Talks (TBC)

Postgres Internals & Performance

• Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL (Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek)
• Implementing Strict Serializability with pg_xact (Jimmy Zelinskie)
• Practical Query Tuning in PostgreSQL: From Diagnosis to Optimization (Keiko Oda)
• Table Bloat: Managing Your Tuple Graveyard (Chelsea Dole)
• The Journey of Your Query (Melih Mutlu)

Architecture & Applications

• 1 Billion Row Challenge: Comparing Postgres, DuckDB, and Extensions (Ryan Booz)
• Getting advice from Myself using PGVector, RAG, Flat Files and JSON_TABLEs (Jay Miller)
• Start with a Clean Slate: Setting Up Integration Tests with PostgreSQL (Doğaç Eldenk)
• Who Needs Kafka? PubSub Patterns Beyond Message Queues Using Postgres LISTEN/NOTIFY (Paul Whalen)

Database Operations & Administration

• CloudNativePG 101 (Gabriele Quaresima)
• Fun with Postgres High Availability Poker (David George Andrew Pitts, Teresa Lopes)
• Living on the Edge - Distributed Postgres and You (Shaun Thomas)
• Protecting your PostgreSQL data assets: one size does not fit all (Henrietta Dombrovskaya)

Postgres Community

• The Power of Feedback: Building a Thriving PostgreSQL Community in Madagascar (BAOVOLA Marie Anna)