The Next 20 Years
summary
Postgres is already the Stack Overflow top database and the plan is to push from broad popularity toward pervasiveness by addressing specific gaps: about 30,000 undecided developers to persuade, a push for subprojects to host external extensions, mandatory performance regression tests and fault‑injection coverage, versioned subsystems to permit big changes safely, and concrete feature proposals like an in-memory hash table and optional multithreading. The goal is to cover ~99% of use cases via extensions while scaling community and contributor capacity.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction and popularity
- 2:59Community growth and trends
- 5:50Analyzing database movement
- 8:23Predicting the next 20 years
- 10:21Economics and extensibility
- 14:51Postgres as a database platform
- 21:03Project structure and development
- 25:15Quality and feature development
- 29:08Future technical challenges
- 34:44Persuasion and community growth
- 38:10Conclusion and call to action
- 41:45Q&A session
