Thursday, May 21, 2026

In-person commitfest in Xerox (Room 1500)

• Fletcher
• Labatt
• Canfor
• Cominco
• 08:30–09:30
• Concourse Breakfast
• 09:30–10:20
• Fletcher Text encoding débacles
  (Thomas Munro)
• Labatt We come in peace - lessons learned from MySQL at hyper scale
  (Sam Lambert)
• Canfor Pushing the Limits of the Index API: Building a Columnar Store without a TAM
  (Stu Hood)
• 10:30–11:00
• Concourse Coffee
• 11:00–11:50
• Fletcher PostgreSQL as an open data format: 100x faster TPC-H queries through direct storage reads
  (Hristo Stoyanov, Jonathan Katz)
• Labatt Temporal Data: A Roadmap
  (Paul Jungwirth)
• Canfor Is There a Future for Genetic and Learning-Based Methods in Query Optimizers?
  (Alena Rybakina)
• Cominco CREATE TABLE topics ();
  (Alastair Turner, Floor Drees)
• 12:00–12:25
• Fletcher pg_textsearch: Native BM25 Full-Text Search in Postgres
  (Todd J. Green)
• Labatt Are we OAuth yet?
  (Andreas Karlsson)
• Canfor "Developer U": Lessons Learned from a Global Training Program for Postgres Developers
  (Andrew Dunstan)
• 12:00–13:40
• Cominco How to read and write the SQL standard
  (Peter Eisentraut)
• 12:30–13:45
• Concourse/Segal Lunch + Poster Session Showcase
• 13:45–14:00
• Fletcher Major Contributors' Group Photo
• 14:00–14:50
• Fletcher Profiling Postgres Perils
  (Andres Freund)
• Labatt What can Postgres learn from ClickHouse?
  (Alexey Milovidov)
• Canfor Building a Foreign Data Wrapper
  (David E. Wheeler)
• 15:00–15:25
• Fletcher Batching in the Executor
  (Amit Langote)
• Labatt Defaults vs Reality: A Large-Scale Study of PostgreSQL GUC Usage
  (Palak Chaturvedi)
• Canfor Corruptions in PostgreSQL: Three cases, hard lessons
  (Nitin Jadhav)
• 15:30–16:15
• Concourse Tea + Cake Cutting
• 16:15–16:40
• Fletcher Learning PostgreSQL Hacking Fast: Lessons and Mistakes from a Newcomer
  (Chao Li)
• Labatt Implementing DDL Deparsing and DDL Replication
  (Masahiko Sawada)
• Canfor Oracle to PostgreSQL beyond the Syntax: When DBMS Design Differences Matter
  (Joshua Steinmann, Tino Engelbrecht)
• 16:45–17:10
• Fletcher My Journey into PostgreSQL Development
  (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
• Labatt pgstats and PostgreSQL 18
  (Michael Paquier)
• Canfor Can We Skip Recovery? The Architecture of On-Demand WAL Replay.
  (Srinath Reddy Sadipiralla)
• 17:15–18:15
• Fletcher Lightning Talks
• 18:15–21:15
• Concourse Meet + Eat (Thursday)