Thursday, May 21, 2026

In-person commitfest in Xerox (Room 1500)

• Fletcher (1900)
• Labatt (1700)
• Canfor (1600)
• Cominco (1415)
• 08:30–09:30
• Concourse Breakfast
• 09:30–10:20
• Fletcher (1900) Text encoding débacles
  (Thomas Munro)
• Labatt (1700) How to Hack on Logical Replication: Insights from contributors
  (Hayato Kuroda, Zhijie Hou)
• Canfor (1600) 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 (1900) PostgreSQL as an open data format: 100x faster TPC-H queries through direct storage reads
  (Hristo Stoyanov, Jonathan Katz)
• Labatt (1700) Temporal Data: A Roadmap
  (Paul Jungwirth)
• Canfor (1600) Is There a Future for Genetic and Learning-Based Methods in Query Optimizers?
  (Alena Rybakina)
• Cominco (1415) CREATE TABLE topics ();
  (Alastair Turner, Floor Drees)
• 12:00–12:25
• Fletcher (1900) pg_textsearch: Native BM25 Full-Text Search in Postgres
  (Todd J. Green)
• Labatt (1700) Serverside SNI in PostgreSQL 19
  (Daniel Gustafsson)
• Canfor (1600) "Developer U": Lessons Learned from a Global Training Program for Postgres Developers
  (Andrew Dunstan)
• 12:00–13:40
• Cominco (1415) How to read and write the SQL standard
  (Peter Eisentraut)
• 12:30–14:00
• Concourse/Segal Lunch + Poster Session Showcase
• 14:00–14:50
• Fletcher (1900) Profiling Postgres Perils
  (Andres Freund)
• Labatt (1700) Postgres as an Execution Environment for AI Workflows: Failure Modes, Hooks, and Patchable Primitives
  (Vibhor Kumar)
• Canfor (1600) Building a Foreign Data Wrapper
  (David E. Wheeler)
• 15:00–15:25
• Fletcher (1900) Batching in the Executor
  (Amit Langote)
• Labatt (1700) Defaults vs Reality: A Large-Scale Study of PostgreSQL GUC Usage
  (Palak Chaturvedi)
• Canfor (1600) How pg_query rewrites, deparses & formats any valid Postgres query
  (Keiko Oda, Lukas Fittl)
• 15:30–16:15
• Concourse Tea + Cake Cutting
  (Bruce Momjian, Gwen Shapira)
• 16:15–16:40
• Fletcher (1900) Implementing DDL Deparsing and DDL Replication
  (Masahiko Sawada)
• Labatt (1700) My Journey into PostgreSQL Development
  (Nazir Bilal Yavuz)
• Canfor (1600) Oracle to PostgreSQL beyond the Syntax: When DBMS Design Differences Matter
  (Joshua Steinmann, Tino Engelbrecht)
• 16:45–17:10
• Fletcher (1900) pgstats and PostgreSQL 18
  (Michael Paquier)
• Labatt (1700) The Five-year Patch mission: To boldly fail where no patch has failed before
  (Daniel Gustafsson)
• Canfor (1600) Ways to reduce the memory footprint of connections
  (Matthias van de Meent)
• 17:15–18:15
• Fletcher (1900) Lightning Talks
  (Jeremy Schneider, Masahiko Sawada)
• 18:15–21:15
• Concourse Meet + Eat (Thursday)
  (Paul Ramsey)