Wednesday, May 20, 2026

In-person commitfest in Xerox (Room 1500)

• Fletcher (1900)
• Labatt (1700)
• Canfor (1600)
• 07:30–08:30
• Canfor (1600) Postgres Women Breakfast
  (Stacey Haysler)
• Concourse Breakfast
• 08:30–08:55
• Fletcher (1900) Opening & Commemorative Poster Giveaway
  (Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman)
• 09:00–09:50
• Fletcher (1900) Let’s talk about building the next generation of Postgres open source contributors
  (Claire Giordano)
• Labatt (1700) Update on index prefetching
  (Peter V Geoghegan, Tomas Vondra)
• Canfor (1600) Connection Pooling Beyond PgBouncer: A Custom Approach for Distributed PostgreSQL
  (Manan Gupta)
• 10:00–10:30
• Concourse Coffee
• 10:30–11:20
• Fletcher (1900) Psycopg: 20 years of mostly friendly coexistence with libpq
  (Daniele Varrazzo)
• Labatt (1700) Experimenting with a Global Index in PostgreSQL: Design, Implementation, and Challenges
  (Dilip Kumar)
• Canfor (1600) Rethinking the Monolith: Evolving Postgres for Hundreds of Cores and Far Memory
  (Haibo Yan)
• 11:30–11:55
• Fletcher (1900) Table repacking, done right
  (Álvaro Herrera)
• Labatt (1700) The Edge of ACID with Injection Points
  (Andrey Borodin)
• Canfor (1600) Internal data value representation in PostgreSQL.
  (Amul Sul)
• 12:00–13:00
• Concourse Lunch
• 13:00–13:50
• Fletcher (1900) Optimizing code in the hot path; with examples from tuple deformation
  (David Rowley)
• Labatt (1700) Data lakes and Icebergs in Postgres with pg_lake
  (Marco Slot)
• Canfor (1600) Join Statistics
  (Corey Huinker)
• 14:00–14:50
• Fletcher (1900) pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL?
  (Robert Haas)
• Labatt (1700) Scaling Logical Replication: Parallel Apply and Centralized Decoding
  (Amit Kapila, Hayato Kuroda)
• Canfor (1600) PostgreSQL's Distributed Evolution: What changed and what stayed the same in the Cloud
  (Raluca Constantin)
• 15:00–15:30
• Concourse Tea
• 15:30–15:55
• Fletcher (1900) PostgreSQL Commitfest Metrics: A Quantitative Analysis
  (Andreas Scherbaum, Jimmy Angelakos)
• Labatt (1700) Semi-Joins in PostgreSQL
  (Richard Guo)
• Canfor (1600) Deep dive into resource manager, error and interrupt handling.
  (Rahila Syed)
• 16:00–16:25
• Fletcher (1900) The Missing Link: Connecting Tens of Thousands of Chinese Users to the PostgreSQL Core
  (Grant Zhou)
• Labatt (1700) Extending Extended Statistics to Joins
  (Alexandra Wang)
• Canfor (1600) Extensions for Everyone
  (Ruohang Feng)
• 16:30–17:30
• Fletcher (1900) 30 Years of PostgreSQL Retrospective
  (Bruce Momjian, Jan Wieck, Jolly Chen, Jonathan Katz, Melanie Plageman, Thomas Lockhart, Tom Lane, Vadim Mikheev)
• 17:30–17:50
• Fletcher (1900) Group Photo: everyone!
  (Noah Misch)
• 17:50–18:00
• Fletcher (1900) Group Photo: PostgreSQL Major Contributors
  (Noah Misch)
• 18:15–21:15
• Rogue Kitchen Social
• 22:00–23:59
• SWITCH [advance signup required] pgkaraoke
  (Floor Drees, Peter V Geoghegan)