Conference Sessions - FOSDEM PGDay 2026

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for FOSDEM PGDay 2026. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

App Developer (45 minutes)

• Efficiently approximating/estimating percentiles and histograms (Tomas Vondra)
• Vibe-coding with Postgres: really? (Matt Cornillon)

Community (45 minutes)

• Behind the Postgres 18 major release: An analysis of contributions (Claire Giordano)

DBA (45 minutes)

• From Crisis to Control: Detect and Fix Corruptions (Derk van Veen)
• pgBackRest magic you'll wish you knew sooner (Stefan Fercot)
• Storage Performance Matters: Benchmarking PostgreSQL on Kubernetes (Jonathan Battiato)
• What's Missing in Postgres? (Bruce Momjian)
• Zero-Downtime Upgrades: PostgreSQL and OS/glibc at Global Scale (Alexander Sosna)

Postgres Internals (45 minutes)

• Batching in Executor (Amit Langote)
• How fast can we make pgvector if we're allowed to hack on PostgreSQL too? (Thomas Munro)
• JIT in PostgreSQL: what it is, what it can and what it could do for you (Pierre Ducroquet)
• The Five-year Patch mission: To boldly fail where no patch has failed before (Daniel Gustafsson)

Lightning Talk (5 mins)

• Lightning Talks ()
• LISTEN carefully: how NOTIFY can trip up your database (LT version) (Jimmy Angelakos)
• PostgreSQL Compatibility Index (Mayuresh Suresh Bagayatkar)
• Reading out AI generated Pull Requests ~~for fun and profit~~ (Floor Drees, Jonathan Gonzalez V.)
• The process of RPM packaging in the PostgreSQL ecosystem (Devrim Gündüz)
• This is a test submission (Teresa Lopes)