Conference Sessions - FOSDEM PGDay 2023

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for FOSDEM PGDay 2023. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

PGDay

• Crazy Things You Can Do with PostgreSQL Indexes (Christopher Travers)
• Deep dive into the pgBackRest world (Stefan Fercot)
• Fighting write amplification by stimulating HOT updates through the fill factor (Derk van Veen)
• Fuzzy Text Search: An unassertive guide to almost getting what you want (Brendan Scullion)
• LFMF: how a CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY led to a 6 hour downtime (Gunnar "Nick" Bluth)
• Securing PostgreSQL From External Attack (Bruce Momjian)
• Understanding PostgreSQL Query Plans (aka EXPLAIN) (Stephen Frost)
• Welcome and Opening (Magnus Hagander)

Devroom

• Bulk Inserts With PostgreSQL: Four Methods For Efficient Data Loading (Ryan Booz)
• DBA Evolution (the Changing Role of the Database Administrator) (Karen Jex)
• Deep dive into Query Performance (Peter Zaitsev)
• Don't Do This (Jimmy Angelakos)
• How to Give Your Postgres Blog Posts an Outsize Impact (Claire Giordano)
• The Human Factor: Why Database teams Need Crew Resource Management (Christopher Travers)
• Tour de Data Types: VARCHAR2 or CHAR(255)? (Andreas Scherbaum)
• When it all GOes right (Pavlo Golub)