Conference Sessions - PGConf.DE 2026

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

General

• Closing session (Andreas Scherbaum)
• How I built an open source community in Armenia (Emma Saroyan)
• Lightning Talks (Andreas Scherbaum)
• Not Just Altruism: Selling PostgreSQL Contributions to Your Employer (Valeria Kaplan)
• Opening (Andreas Scherbaum)
• What's Missing in Postgres? (Bruce Momjian)

DBA

• 20 Years in the Trenches: What Postgres Can Learn from the Proprietary World (Jan Wieremjewicz, Kai)
• Async I/O in PostgreSQL 18: Storage Finally Matters Again (Chris Engelbert)
• Benchmarking - An unexpected Journey (Dirk Krautschick)
• Choosing your exporter: Pros and Cons of PostgreSQL exporters for telemetry data. (Orlando Kadaffy Talavera Arauz)
• Don’t OIDC Yourself in the Foot: Postgres 18’s New Auth Explained (Zsolt Parragi)
• Embedding Workloads as a New Stress Test for Postgres (Viktoriia Hrechukha)
• Getting Started with pgwatch: Features, Installation, and Use Cases (Pavlo Golub)
• Operating Postgres as a data source for your analytics pipelines (Ilya Kosmodemiansky)
• pgBackRest in HA setups: deployment patterns that work (Stefan Fercot)
• PostgreSQL AIO in der Praxis (Christoph Moench-Tegeder)
• PostgreSQL Klone mit Reflink-Kopien (und was wir dadurch über Backups lernen können!) (Julian Markwort)
• Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room (Anton Borisov)
• The Elephant That Learns: How to use Machine Learning to Optimize PostgreSQL (Charly Batista)
• The Need for Speed: Mastering WAL-G for High-Performance Backup & Recovery on Kubernetes (Sudeepta Patra)
• Vector and VictoriaLogs: Powerhouse combo for Logging Observability in modern database infrastructure (Priyanka Chatterjee)
• Was bedeutet der EU Cyber Resilience Act für PostgreSQL und seine Anwender? (Peter Eisentraut)
• When a Postgres Operator decision is not forever: approaches and experiences for migrating between Postgres Operators (Takis (Panagiotis) Stathopoulos)
• Why your PostgreSQL tuning guide might be wrong (and what to do about it) (Mohsin Ejaz)

Developer

• Achieving Reliable Application Transactions in Multi-Region PostgreSQL: Real-World Challenges and Solutions (Yann Allandit)
• Ein Jahr PostgreSQL statt Oracle – Das Leben danach (Jonas Gassenmeyer)
• Everything you need to know about collations (Andreas Karlsson)
• Hey, I'm using that! Fixing lock contention in OLTP. (Ants Aasma)
• Into the Woods: Finding Your Way with B-Trees in PostgreSQL (Sergey Dudoladov)
• It works on my database - Regression testing of SQL queries (Radim Marek)
• More Datacenters, Less Problems (Fabiana Scala)
• PG Tricks (Chris Ellis)
• PostgreSQL Migrations Without Drama (Daria Nikolaenko)
• Understanding Model Context Protocol (MCP) and building AI Agents for PostgreSQL database management (Divya Sharma)
• Visualizing PostgreSQL Storage Internals (Radim Marek)

Internals

• Beyond work_mem Myths: A Source‑Code‑Guided Tour Through PostgreSQL Memory (Josef Machytka)
• Profiling PostgreSQL: perf, Flame Graphs, and eBPF Tools in Practice (Jan Kristof Nidzwetzki)
• Solving complex database problems by starting small (Derk van Veen)
• SQL Injection Is Boring—Advanced Threats You’re Not Watching (Dwarka Rao, Kranthi Kiran Burada)
• The Life of a Tuple in Logical Replication (Shlok Kumar Kyal)
• The Secret Handshake: Demystifying PostgreSQL's SCRAM Authentication Protocol (Jorge Solorzano)
• Zeilensperren in PostgreSQL: eine anatomische Betrachtung (Laurenz Albe)

Sponsors

• Compliant and fully automated PostgreSQL (Hans-Jürgen Schönig)
• Data Migration Is Easy. Data Validation Is Not. (Hervé Schweitzer)
• Der Weg zu PostgreSQL: Strategien, Souveränität und Best Practices (Raphael Salguero)
• Digital Sovereignty in Europe: STACKIT as a Secure Cloud Alternative (Richard Siekmann)
• Divya says smart things about Databases (Divya Sharma)
• Exploring new enhancements and improvements Fujitsu has delivered to PostgreSQL (Vincent O'Dea)
• I'm Afraid of the Database: How I gained confidence in PostgreSQL as an App Developer (Jay Miller)
• Migrating Legacy & Proprietary Databases to PostgreSQL with credativ-pg-migrator (Josef Machytka)
• Modernising Postgres Community Communication with Hackorum (Zsolt Parragi)
• One Collector to Rule Them All: Unified Observability for PostgreSQL Platforms (Dirk Aumueller)
• PostgreSQL Data Diode: Layer 7 Protocol Inspection for NIS-2 and BSI-Grundschutz Compliance (Michael Kubert)
• PostgreSQL tuning meets Kubernetes: What breaks and how we automated It (Mohsin Ejaz)
• Run PostgreSQL Like a Product: Operational Readiness for Databases (Roland Stirnimann)
• Silver Sponsor Lightning Talks (Andreas Scherbaum)
• What Can Redgate Actually Do for Your Postgres Stack? Let's Find Out. (Nick Hape)
• Your App is Stuck in Ancient Times, While Your Database Dreams of PostgreSQL. It’s Time to Fix the Bridge. (Rafał Szczap)

Platinum Sponsor Keynotes

• Iceberg Ahead! Why PostgreSQL is the Lifeboat (and the Captain) of the Modern Data Lake ()
• PostgreSQL Adoption in the German Public Sector (Diego Calvo de No)
• PostgreSQL digital independence (Hans-Jürgen Schönig)
• The next 10 years of Postgres (Álvaro Herrera)