PGDay Lowlands 2025
2025-09-12
Rotterdam, Netherlands
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| How Do We Get Postgres to the Next Level? | Jimmy Angelakos | 27m |
PostgreSQL needs concrete fixes: establish a dedicated performance team, push toward 100% test coverage with fault‑injection and realistic… | ||
| Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL | Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek | 42m |
Explains exact table-level modes like Access Share, Access Exclusive and shows how a 30-minute monthly SELECT can block an ALTER TABLE DETACH and queue dozens… | ||
| Database in Distress: Testing and Repairing Different Types of Database Corruption | Josef Machytka | 37m |
PostgreSQL files on some systems show silent damage that only appears when a specific page or tuple is read, causing errors like "invalid page in block"… | ||
| Fun with UUIDs | Chris Ellis | 38m |
UUIDs store 16 bytes so the talk demonstrates encoding tenant, time and object bits into them, shows a simple Postgres SQL implementation plus a C extension… | ||
| PGDay Lowlands 2025 Lightning Talks | ShivaDeep Gundoju, Cornelia Biacsics, Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar, Derk van Veen | 19m |
Four quick takes: Oracle Database Operator is now production‑ready, with official container images since 2019, operator code from 2022, remote‑DB management… | ||
| Actual trees, not b-trees: or how I found PostgreSQL through PostGIS | Johannes Paul | 21m |
Starts from a CSV and ends with a web map: uses PostGIS/PostgreSQL, GeoServer and OpenLayers to import tree records (neighbor exports ~4,000 trees/year with… | ||
| Beyond Postgres: Insights about the PostgreSQL Extensibility | Dirk Krautschick | 28m |
Explains how PostgreSQL extensions actually get built and deployed, showing an immediate demo that creates a SQL-only extension by dropping control and SQL… | ||
| Debate: PostgreSQL on K8S | Emrah Becer, Jonathan Battiato, Matt Cornillon, Dmitry Fomin, Floor Drees | 17m |
Debate contrasts concrete costs and fixes: testing uses fio and pgbench benchmarks and a shared GitHub guide; Kubernetes runs the same PostgreSQL binaries from… | ||
| Courting Mongo, committing to Postgres: Our data love story! | Valeria Alexandra Haro Valle | 25m |
Seven years on MongoDB Atlas turns into chronic duplication, chaotic nested documents and slow queries, so migration to Postgres begins: custom migration… | ||
| What I learned interviewing the PostgreSQL Community | Andreas Scherbaum | 18m |
Weekly interviews since early 2020 compile 194 conversations and a static site that builds from markdown and deploys via Google, published mostly on Mondays… | ||
| Debate: Autotuning | Luigi Nardi, Gianni Ciolli, Mayuresh Suresh, Guy Gyles, Floor Drees | 20m |
Autotuning promises saves DBAs hours by measuring KPIs like per-query response time and memory ceilings and using domain-specific models to adjust Postgres… | ||
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