Schedule - PostgreSQL Development Conference 2025

You can find the full conference information at the conference website. This schedule is subject to changes. This page will be updated when any changes occur.

Wednesday, May 14

Breakout Room 1
Breakout Room 2
Breakout Room 3
10:00 - 10:50
Investigating Multithreaded PostgreSQL
Thomas Munro
10:00 - 10:50
Adventures in Extension Packaging
David E. Wheeler
10:00 - 10:50
Exploring the benefits of learned indexes in PostgreSQL: Theory and Implementation
GARY W EVANS, Nishchay Kothari
11:30 - 12:20
The trouble with extensions
Marco Slot
11:30 - 12:20
What is new in C and POSIX?
Peter Eisentraut
11:30 - 12:20
Fraught Feedback: Trying and Failing to Implement Adaptive Behavior in Postgres
Melanie Plageman
12:30 - 12:55
Compiling Postgres to WASM with PGlite
Sam Willis
12:30 - 12:55
postgresql.org: The hidden parts
Magnus Hagander
12:30 - 12:55
The Present and Future of VACUUM in PostgreSQL
Masahiko Sawada
14:00 - 14:50
Committer Review: An Exercise in Paranoia
Robert Haas
14:00 - 14:50
Multidimensional search strategies for composite B-Tree indexes
Peter V Geoghegan
14:00 - 14:50
ChatGPT Ain’t Got $%@& On Me! Next Generation Automated Database Tuning
William Zhang
15:00 - 15:50
Scaling Postgres to the next level at OpenAI
Bohan Zhang
15:00 - 15:50
Experimenting with a Global Index in PostgreSQL: Design, Implementation, and Challenges
Dilip Kumar
15:00 - 15:50
Designing and implementing a monitoring feature in PostgreSQL
Rahila Syed
16:30 - 16:55
Tracking plan shapes over time with Plan IDs, and a new pg_stat_plans
Lukas Fittl
16:30 - 16:55
Debugging Data Corruption in PostgreSQL
Palak Chaturvedi
16:30 - 16:55
PostgreSQL container groups, aka cgroups down the road.
Cédric Villemain
17:00 - 17:25
What 10 Postgres Major Contributors Did to Become a Hacker
Claire Giordano
17:00 - 17:25
Reproducible Postgres
Alvaro Hernandez, Javier Maestro
17:00 - 17:25
Fast-path locking improvements in PG18
Tomas Vondra

Thursday, May 15

Breakout Room 1
Breakout Room 2
Breakout Room 3
09:00 - 09:50
Application Development Challenges with Postgres
Dian Fay
09:00 - 09:50
My Journey in PostgreSQL bug fixing
Bertrand Drouvot
09:00 - 09:50
Changing shared_buffers on the fly
Ashutosh Bapat, Dmitrii Dolgov
10:30 - 11:20
What went wrong with AIO
Andres Freund
10:30 - 11:20
Detection and resolution of conflicts in logical replication
Ajin Cherian, Zhijie Hou
10:30 - 11:20
Switching between query plans in real time (Switch Join)
Alena Rybakina
11:30 - 11:55
Problems with logical decoding — an end-user’s perspective
Polina Bungina
11:30 - 11:55
What does moving to Pull Requests look like? The nginx story
Alastair Turner
11:30 - 11:55
Rethinking PostgreSQL Performance in the Age of Monster Hardware
Lætitia AVROT
13:00 - 13:50
Vector search is now boring, but PostgreSQL has ways to go
Jonathan Katz
13:00 - 13:50
Improving scalability; Reducing overhead in shared memory
Matthias van de Meent
13:00 - 13:50
Advanced testing with Injection Points
Michael Paquier
14:00 - 14:25
What can Postgres learn from DuckDB?
Jelte Fennema-Nio
14:00 - 14:25
Foreign Key Joins
Vik Fearing
14:00 - 14:25
Everything You Need to Know About Diversity in 25 Minutes
Stacey Haysler
15:00 - 15:50
Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants
Gwen Shapira
15:00 - 15:50
Writing fast C code for a modern CPU (and applying it to PostgreSQL)
David Rowley
15:00 - 15:50
Revisiting XTM: A Practical Case Study Highlighting Its Needs
Yuya Watari

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