The Call for Papers is from:

Thursday, October 9. 2025 until Friday, January 30. 2026.

Your proposal is expected to be reviewed before:

Friday, February 6. 2026.

We have 6 tracks:

Postgres Extensions Day: Dedicated to developers building and maintaining PostgreSQL extensions. Share your work, learn from others, and connect with the extensions community.

Dev: Application development with PostgreSQL. Topics include using extensions like pg_vector for enhanced search performance, creating custom data types, building applications, and leveraging PostgreSQL features in your development workflow.

Ops: Operational practices for PostgreSQL and related technologies. Covers deployment, monitoring, performance tuning, backup strategies, high availability, replication, and infrastructure management.

Essentials: Deep dives into core PostgreSQL functionality. Explore data types, built-in features, query optimization, indexing strategies, and fundamental concepts. If it’s in the documentation or should be, this track explores it thoroughly. Core PostgreSQL knowledge that provides long-term career value.

Life and Fun: Nothing about Postgres goes here. Non-technical topics that make us human. Share your hobbies, side projects, and interests outside of databases. Topics include beekeeping, gardening, homesteading, solar projects, IoT experiments, mountain biking, camping, and anything else that brings you joy.

Professional Development & Wellness: Career growth and personal well-being. Topics include career advancement, managing burnout, work-life integration, mental health, communication skills, leadership development, and building sustainable careers in technology.

The company that is a PBC that got sued for theft and lost...

I am running for President in 2028. Here is my first platform statement on generating more revenue in a equitable manner.

Because social media largely sucks and brings out the worst in people.

No I didn't read the article.

Good.

This constant consumerism is destroying our world.

Now we have to stop people from consuming cold turkey.

You want people to quit cold turkey cold turkey?

Aren't we all consuming just by being alive? It becomes consumerism when it's taken too far but I don't think any human being can ever stop consuming.

299.00 for a full day training on Postgres Performance and Maintenance. Starts Tuesday, get your ticket today. Seats are limited.

Because smart people know how screwed up the world is and the fact that it isn't actually fixable.

Honestly it's about time.

There is no free lunch and I would rather have to login to see content than have ai scrapers grabbing content

Reddit is partially owned by Sam Altman and they have deals with llm companies to sell the data. The content has been and will continue to be grabbed by everyone who can pay.

This.

If you really care about your content being scraped, you better start reading every TOS for the sites you frequent.

Thank you for your interest in submitting to Postgres Conference: 2026.

We have 6 tracks:

Postgres Extensions Day: Do you develop Postgres Extensions?

Do you want to develop Postgres Extensions?

This day/track is for you!

Dev: All about developing with PostgreSQL. This can be about using extensions like pg_vector to increase your search performance to how to write a new data type.

Ops: Talks on the operational practices of Postgres and related technologies.

Essentials: Datatypes, How do I and data types oh my! If it is in the docs, or should be an isn't... this is where you elaborate on all the glory that is Postgres Essentials. Do not overlook this track it is job security.

Life and Fun: Nothing about Postgres goes here. Do you want to talk about your beehive, backyard garden, homestead, solar, latest IoT project, mountain biking or camping? This is the place.

Professional Development & Wellness: Career enhancement, dealing with burnout and the false ideal of a work life balance. This is where you find peers to help with all kinds of life problems and opportunities.

The Call for Papers is open from Thursday, October 9. 2025 until Friday, January 30. 2026. Your proposal is expected to be reviewed before Friday, February 6. 2026.

Upgrading PostgreSQL and Citus: A Real-World Case Story When your organization relies on PostgreSQL and Citus, a PostgreSQL upgrade isn’t just about version numbers—it’s about unlocking new features, improving scalability, and optimizing performance. Yet in modern distributed environments, with Docker, Kubernetes, and custom extensions, upgrades can be complex without the right approach.