PostgreSQL news

New PostgreSQL Contributors

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000

The PostgreSQL Contributors Page includes people who have made substantial, long-term contributions of time and effort to the PostgreSQL project.

The PostgreSQL Contributors Team is pleased to recognize 24 more individuals for their work in the community and on the codebase.

New PostgreSQL Contributors:

Andrei Lepikhov
Atsushi Torikoshi
Boriss Mejias
Chris Ellis
Claire Giordano
Daniele Varrazzo
Daniel Westermann
Elizabeth Garrett Christensen
Floor Drees
Gilles Darold
Gülçin Yıldırım
Hayato Kuroda
Jimmy Angelakos
Joseph Koshakow
Kosuke Kida
Lukas Fittl
Michael Christofides
Nazir Bilal Yavuz
Nikolay Samokhvalov
Ranier Vilela
Soudai Sone
Stefan Fercot
Takatsuka Haruka
Valeria Kaplan

Thank you and congratulations to all!

The PostgreSQL Contributors Team,

Melanie, Joe, and Christoph

pgDay Paris 2025 - Call for Papers and Sponsorship Opportunities

Fri, 06 Dec 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are thrilled to announce that the annual PostgreSQL Paris conference will take place on March 20, 2025, and we are now open for talk submissions and seeking sponsors.

Call for Papers

If you are working on an exciting, innovative project or have expertise you’d like to share with the PostgreSQL community, submit your talk by December 31, 2025.

https://2025.pgday.paris/call-for-papers/

Not sure about a topic? Take a look at the previous conference talks on YouTube for inspiration.

If you have colleagues that, in your view, could be a great addition to the pgDay Paris programme, please encourage them to also submit their proposals. We especially invite submissions from women and other less represented groups.

We are certain that you have an area where you know more than others, so don’t shy away — submit your proposal!

Call for Sponsors

pgDay Paris is an excellent opportunity to elevate your brand within the PostgreSQL community and position yourself as a leader in open-source innovation. We offer several levels of sponsorship, but they tend to sell out quickly once this email is sent, so hurry up and register or forward this email to your marketing team - they will appreciate it!

https://2025.pgday.paris/become-sponsor/

If you have any questions we would love to hear from you.

Yours truly, pgDay Paris organising team Eliza, Julien, Stéphanie, Valeria, and Vik

Timescale's 2024 State of PostgreSQL Survey Open until Sept 30

Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Our love for PostgreSQL runs deep. We built our products on PostgreSQL, are proud members of the PostgreSQL community, and wouldn’t exist without it and the extensibility it provides.

The 2024 survey is open for submissions until September 30, 2024! Questions involve everything from how you use PostgreSQL for work and personal projects, how you deploy it, how you interact with the community, and how collectively we can help improve the complete developer and user experience.

Please help us contribute valuable insights back to the PostgreSQL community, and turn them into actionable steps to enable positive change. No matter whether you're rather inexperienced with PostgreSQL, or have been using the technology for decades, your feedback will help make a difference. We will share our report (as well as give you full and unrestricted access to the survey’s anonymized raw data) once available. Thank you all for being a part of the community!

Take the 2024 State of Postgres Survey. Click here!

Alternatively, interested in seeing last year's results? Download the 2023 State of PostgreSQL full report, here.

Code of Conduct Committee Seeking New Volunteers

Mon, 09 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This message is being sent from the Community Code of Conduct Committee, with the approval of the Core Team. As part of the Community CoC policy, the Committee membership is to be refreshed on an annual basis. We are seeking up to 4 volunteers to serve on the Committee for the coming year, October 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024.

We are seeking people who reflect the diversity of the PostgreSQL community, with the goal to have members from multiple countries and varied demographics. The time commitment for Committee involvement varies, based on internal administrative work and the number of active investigations. We estimate an average of 5 to 10 hours per month, but that could increase if there is an increase in the number of incident reports.

If you are interested, please complete the questionnaire below, and email your responses to the Committee at coc@postgresql.org no later than September 15, 2024 at 05:00 PM UTC.

The Questionnaire

Your name:

Current employer:

Current country of residence:

(We ask for employer and residence because one of the goals of the Committee is to have representation from a variety of geographical areas. We also want to avoid a concentration of members from one company.)

What interests you about being on the CoC Committee?
Have you been on another CoC Committee, or had a similar role at another organization? (Prior experience is not required, it's just helpful to know everyone's background.)
What else do you want to tell us about yourself that is helpful for us to know about your potential involvement with the CoC Committee?

Please be sure to send your reply to the CoC email listed above.

Thank you!

Regards, Chris Travers Chair PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee

Announcing postgres-contrib.org | Contributions to PostgreSQL

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce postgres-contrib.org, a new website started in July 2024 by members of the PostgreSQL community, highlighting contributions to the project by the amazing people standing behind it.

Many contributions to and for the PostgreSQL Project happen outside of writing code. This was the topic of the Increase Community Participation session at PGConf.dev 2024.
postgres-contrib.org has weekly posts listing contributions, but they will likely not be complete — if you spot something which is worth noticing, please contact us by email.

The following people contributed to this list, and the general idea: Andreas Scherbaum, Boriss Mejías, Chris Ellis, Floor Drees, Jimmy Angelakos and Pavlo Golub.

New Podcast Talking Postgres

Mon, 22 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000

What is Talking Postgres?

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano is a monthly podcast where we talk about the human side of Postgres, databases, and open source. Previously called “Path To Citus Con”, each of the 17 episodes published so far includes 1 or 2 amazing guests from the Postgres world. As for the new Talking Postgres name, it’s been called “a sensible move”, “a great name”, and “more fitting”—since the episodes are all about Postgres things.

Talking Postgres is available via most podcast apps and also on YouTube.
Catch up on the past 17 episodes at talkingpostgres.com.
You can also subscribe to make sure you never miss an episode. And yes, there is an RSS feed on the subscribe page.

Podcast is recorded LIVE on Discord

Usually on the 1st or 2nd Wednesday of the month, we record the podcast live on Discord. So while most people download and listen to episodes after they are published, you can also join the live recordings on the Microsoft Open Source Discord to be part of the parallel live text chat. The text chat is quite fun.

Guests scheduled for future episodes

David Rowley for Ep18 on Tue Aug 6 at 4:00pm PDT (an unusual timeslot due to David’s geography) to discuss How I got started as a developer & in Postgres
Melanie Plageman and Richard Guo in Sep or Nov (date TBD) to discuss Becoming a Postgres committer 😊
Tom Lane for Ep20 on Wed Oct 9 at 10:00am PDT to discuss How I got started as a developer & in Postgres

Remembering Simon Riggs

Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The PostgreSQL Core Team is deeply saddened by the loss of our long-time friend and colleague Simon Riggs on the 26th of March, 2024.

Simon was responsible for many of the enterprise features we find in PostgreSQL today, including point in time recovery, hot standby, and synchronous replication. He was the founder of 2ndQuadrant which employed many of the PostgreSQL developers, later becoming part of EDB where he worked as a Postgres Fellow until his retirement. He was responsible for the UK PostgreSQL conferences for many years until he passed that responsibility to PostgreSQL Europe last year.

Simon's last community contribution was the presentation of the keynote at PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2023 in Prague, which you can watch on YouTube.

Simon will be sorely missed by everyone that knew him, and the PostgreSQL Project offers its deepest sympathies to his family and friends at this time.

New Podcast: Path To Citus Con for developers who love Postgres

Tue, 12 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Path To Citus Con is a new monthly podcast for developers who love Postgres, available via most podcast apps and on YouTube. Guests join to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, open source, databases, and the many PG extensions—along with co-hosts Claire Giordano and Pino de Candia.

Recorded as a live show on Discord, the shows usually happen on the first (or second) Wednesday of the month. You can join the live recordings to participate in the parallel live text chat, which can be quite fun. Podcast episodes are usually published 2 days after recording.

First episodes have had some a-maz-ing guests from the Postgres world

Where to subscribe (& invitation to rate and review)

If you listen to the podcast and enjoy it, you can subscribe on your favorite podcast platform to get notified as new episodes come out. Also: reviews and ratings are much appreciated, so more people discover these Postgres conversations.

Future episodes

Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas will join on Wed Oct 11, 2023 to discuss How I got started as a developer & in Postgres

You can find more information about Path To Citus Con at: https://aka.ms/PathToCitusCon. We hope you love this new podcast.

Call for New Members for the Community Code of Conduct Committee

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This message is being sent from the Community Code of Conduct Committee, with the approval of the Core Team.

As part of the Community CoC policy, the Committee membership is to be refreshed on an annual basis. We are seeking up to three (3) volunteers to serve on the Committee for the coming year, October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2024.

We are seeking people who reflect the diversity of the PostgreSQL community, with the goal to have members from multiple countries and varied demographics.

The time commitment for Committee involvement varies, based on internal administrative work and the number of active investigations. We estimate an average of 5 to 10 hours per month, but that could increase if there is an increase in the number of incident reports.

If you are interested, please complete the questionnaire below, and email your responses to the Committee at coc@postgresql.org no later than September 17, 2023, at 05:00 PM UTC.

What time is that in my time zone?

The Questionnaire

Your name:

Current employer:

Current country of residence:

1. What interests you about being on the CoC Committee?

2. Have you been on another CoC Committee, or had a similar role at another organization? (Prior experience is not required, it's just helpful to know everyone's background.)

3. What else do you want to tell us about yourself that is helpful for us to know about your potential involvement with the CoC Committee?

Please be sure to send your reply to the CoC email listed above.

Thank you!

Regards,

Michael Goldberg

Chair

PostgreSQL Community Code of Conduct Committee

Timescale's 2023 State of PostgreSQL Survey Now Open

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Our love for PostgreSQL runs deep. We built our products on PostgreSQL, are proud members of the PostgreSQL community, and wouldn’t exist without it and the extensibility it provides.

In 2019, Timescale launched the first State of PostgreSQL report, advancing our desire to provide more significant insights into the specificities and features applicable to the PostgreSQL community. Thanks to your contribution, we have continually delivered this report. We are pleased to announce that the 2023 survey is now open for submissions! We are keen to learn more about how you use PostgreSQL for work and personal projects, how you deploy it, and how we can collectively improve it.

Please help us give back to this incredible group: answer survey questions and share with other PostgreSQL users. We are excited to hear your thoughts and spark a conversation that will keep us moving forward and building better things together. We will share our report (as well as give you full and unrestricted access to the survey’s anonymized raw data) once available. Thank you for being a part of the community!

Take the 2023 State of Postgres Survey. Click here!