Conference Sessions - Nordic PGDay 2026

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

Main track

• Beyond work_mem Myths: A Source‑Code‑Guided Tour Through PostgreSQL Memory Usage (Josef Machytka)
• Building Real-Time, Data-Aware Intelligence with Postgres & Model Context Protocol (MCP) (Yogesh Jain)
• Critical DBA Tasks for Postgresql (Pat Wright)
• Efficiently approximating/estimating percentiles and histograms (Tomas Vondra)
• Grandpa's Guide to Technical Empathy: Decrypting PostgreSQL for Strategic Clarity (Ellyne Phneah)
• Hey, I'm using that! Fixing lock contention in OLTP. (Ants Aasma)
• It works on my database - Regression testing of SQL queries (Radim Marek)
• Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB (Teresa Lopes)
• PG Tricks (Chris Ellis)
• Professional PostgreSQL scheduling made easy (Pavlo Golub)
• Rediscovering PgQ (Alexander Kukushkin)
• Structuring SQL: When and How (Henrietta Dombrovskaya)

Sponsor Track

• Actionable Observability: Finding the root cause of Slow Queries in Postgres (Ryan Booz)
• A PostgreSQL journey - what we learned migrating between 3 platforms (James McDonald, Nina Angelvik)
• Unlock AI Agents with PostgreSQL (Mats Berglin, Miguel Toscano)
• Why Postgres Won (Gianni Ciolli)