Schedule
September 30 - October 2 2026
Wednesday, September 30
Rossi
Letterpress
Type
Workshop
10:3011:20
11:3012:20
12:2013:30
Lunch
13:3014:20
14:3015:20
15:2016:00
Coffee Break
10:30–11:20
Rossi
A PostgreSQL 19 whirlwind tour
Jonathan S. Katz
Letterpress
Hybrid Search in PostgreSQL: Combining Vector and Full-Text for Real-World Applications
Shayon Sanyal
Type
Just enough Postgres compatibility to keep your sanity
Jelte Fennema-Nio
Workshop
Beginner Postgres Workshop (Part 1)
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
11:30–12:20
Rossi
Killing the Cron Job: Rescuing a Production Odoo Workload on PostgreSQL
Umair Shahid
Letterpress
Migrating PostgreSQL to Kubernetes: A Practical Guide for Database Administrators
Gabriele Bartolini
Type
Achieving True Zero-Downtime Operations with Postgres 19 : Goodbye, Maintenance Windows
Rajni Baliyan
Workshop
Beginner Postgres Workshop (Part 2)
Devrim Gündüz · Ryan Booz
12:20–13:30
Lunch
13:30–14:20
Rossi
pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
Robert Haas
Letterpress
Same Postgres, Moving Ground: How Infrastructure Changes Shape Database Behavior
Divya Bhargov
Type
Using PostgreSQL as a Control Plane for Reliable AI Workflows
Payal Singh
14:30–15:20
Rossi
What's Missing in Postgres?
Bruce Momjian
Letterpress
How small teams maintain production Postgres without a DBA
Steve Yonkeu
Type
An Overview of Index Prefetching
Peter Geoghegan
15:20–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–16:50
Rossi
Everything to know about Postgres Locks
Brian Brennglass
Letterpress
Comparative Study of PostgreSQL CDC Plugins and Open-Source Consumer Ecosystems
Amit Kapila
Type
From Inclusion to Involvement
Stacey Haysler
Thursday, October 01
Rossi
Letterpress
Type
10:3011:20
11:3012:20
12:2013:30
Lunch
13:3014:20
14:3015:20
15:2016:00
Coffee Break
16:0016:50
10:30–11:20
Rossi
How Aura Frames Scaled RDS Postgres for Peak Christmas Traffic (#1 in App Store)
Andrew Atkinson
Letterpress
Solving Healthcare Claims Bottlenecks with Agentic Postgres Architectures
AMEY BANARSE · Makhoul Cassis
Type
Deep dive into the PostgreSQL Frontend/Backend protocol
Xavier Fischer
11:30–12:20
Rossi
PostgreSQL Performance Mysteries: When Low IOPS Still Means High Latency
Gayathri Paderla
Letterpress
Would you still love me if I was a worm (who needed to learn Postgres)?
Selena Flannery
Type
Schema-First PostgreSQL Migrations: Editing the End State
Greg Potter
12:20–13:30
Lunch
Letterpress
Postgres Women's Lunch
Stacey Haysler
13:30–14:20
Rossi
Explaining the Unexplainable: Mastering EXPLAIN ANALYZE for Real-World Query Tuning
Kavach Shah · Nikunj Doshi
Letterpress
WHERE password IS NULL: Granular Workload Identity for Postgres with mTLS
Chelsea Dole
Type
30 Years of PostgreSQL and Zero Obituaries
Gary Evans
14:30–15:20
Rossi
500 PostgreSQL Clusters Later: Building a CloudNativePG-Powered DBaaS Platform
Chris Gooch
Letterpress
A Secret Decoder Ring for Postgres Replication: A Beginner’s Guide
Claire Giordano
Type
Pushing PostgreSQL to the Limit: How to Benchmark Hardware with Postgres
Richard Yen
15:20–16:00
Coffee Break
16:00–16:50
Rossi
From Oracle to Postgres for 40 Million Users: What a National G2C Migration Actually Looks Like
Hari Kiran
Letterpress
Always Be Repacking: Architecting a Continuous Repacking Orchestrator for High-Throughput PostgreSQL
Ankit Mittal
Type
From the Ground Up: Building and Growing PostgreSQL Communities in Africa
Benedict Kofi Amofah
Friday, October 02
Rossi
Letterpress
Type
09:3010:20
10:2011:00
Morning Break
11:0011:50
12:0012:50
12:5014:00
Lunch
09:30–10:20
Rossi
Securing the Data Layer for AI Agents and MCP Servers
Gleb Otochkin
Letterpress
CloudNativePG: Rethinking PostgreSQL Extensions in Kubernetes
Gabriele Fedi
Type
Building infrastructure on Postgres forks
Tatiana Krupenya
10:20–11:00
Morning Break
11:00–11:50
Rossi
I Didn't Know Postgres Could Do That!
Robert Treat
Letterpress
PostgreSQL Housekeeping: The Complete VACUUM Handbook
Nazneen Jafri · Sukhpreet Kaur Bedi
Type
Seamless Major Version Upgrades: Bringing DDL Replication to PostgreSQL
Masahiko Sawada
12:00–12:50
Rossi
Postgres on EC2, RDS, and Aurora Global Database from the Pager's Point of View
Stephen Brandon
Letterpress
Per-Backend Statistics: See What Every Connection Is Actually Doing
Bertrand Drouvot
Type
SQL Injection Is Boring - Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching
Alex Anto Kizhakeyyepunnil Joy · Kranthi Kiran Burada
12:50–14:00
Lunch
14:00–14:50
Rossi
When TOAST Burns — Diagnosing and Surviving OID Exhaustion in PostgreSQL
Mohamed Ali · Nazneen Jafri
Letterpress
Scaling Postgres Beyond Query Optimization
Alex Yarotsky
Type
Bridging Legacy Apps and Modern Data in Healthcare: Bringing Structure to the Chaos
John Sly
15:00–15:50
Rossi
I Learned About PostgreSQL From That
Shane Borden
Letterpress
Index Maintenance in Production: The Ops Nobody Talks About
Ranjan Burman
Type
PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud
Raluca Constantin