Conference Sessions - PGConf.DE 2025

The following list contains all the talks that have been approved so far for PGConf.DE 2025. Note that they may not yet have been scheduled! You can find the full conference information at the conference website.

Breaks

• Community Reception (Andreas Scherbaum)

General

• Closing session (Andreas Scherbaum)
• Creating a Board Game Chatbot with Postgres, AI, and RAG (Matt Cornillon)
• Lightning Talks (Andreas Scherbaum)
• Opening (Andreas Scherbaum)
• PostgreSQL Als Daten-Integrations-Werkzeug Mit Foreign Data Wrappern (Stefanie Janine Stölting)

DBA

• All about common vulnerabilities and exposures(CVE) in Postgres (Priyanka Chatterjee)
• András in Windowsland - a DBA's (mis)adventures (András Váczi)
• Best practices for creating Ephemeral Environments with PII for Postgres (Monica Sarbu)
• Data Archiving and Retention in PostgreSQL: Best Practices for Large Datasets (Daria Nikolaenko)
• Einführung von PostgreSQL in einer Oracle-"Bude" (Bernd Patolla)
• Extend your PostgreSQL: The world of PostgreSQL extensions (Devrim Gündüz)
• Fun with Postgres High Availability Poker (Derk van Veen, Teresa Lopes)
• Modernes SSL ideal einsetzen (Peter Eisentraut)
• Modern VACUUM (Christoph Berg)
• Myths and Truths about Synchronous Replication in PostgreSQL (Alexander Kukushkin)
• Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB (Teresa Lopes)
• Overcoming the Crisis - Recovery Guide for the PostgreSQL DBA (Emre Baransel, Utku Demir)
• PostgreSQL Configuration File: Less is More (Lætitia AVROT)
• PostgreSQL Performance Tuning (Michael Banck)
• Riding the daemon - PostgreSQL on FreeBSD (Daniel Westermann)
• Warum sich PostgreSQL-Fans auch für Kafka und Debezium interessieren sollten? (Dirk Krautschick)
• What is an SLRU anyway? (Álvaro Herrera)

Developer

• Breaking Down Monoliths: Automating PostgreSQL Cluster Isolation at Scale (Fabiana Scala, Nacho Mas)
• Building a Discord-Game with PostgreSQL (Caspar Moritz Klein, Xenia Kukushkina)
• Comparing the Oracle and PostgreSQL transaction systems (Laurenz Albe)
• Elephant in a nutshell 2.0 - PostgreSQL community, people, and processes. (Valeria Kaplan)
• From Distance to Intelligence: Evolving Your Vector Search (Bilge Ince, Boriss Mejias)
• Fun With UUIDs (Chris Ellis)
• Normalize or De-normalize? Relational SQL Columns or JSON Document Attributes? (Franck Pachot)
• Postgres and Life Science: From Cells to Stars (Evan Hunter Stanton)
• The Lifecycle of a SELECT: A Glimpse into the Depths of PostgreSQL Internals (Sergey Dudoladov)
• The Well-Tempered Elephant (Gianni Ciolli)
• Unleashing the Elephant Herd: Decentralized Query Processing Across PostgreSQL Instances (Haralampos Gavriilidis)
• What is MVCC and why should I care about it? (Patrick Stählin)

Internals

• Adjusting work_mem: Scaling PostgreSQL events without overloading (Ellyne Phneah)
• Anatomy of Table-Level Locks in PostgreSQL (Gülçin Yıldırım Jelinek)
• Explain Explained - Understanding the PostgreSQL planner better (Divya Sharma)
• PostgreSQL Connections Memory Usage: How Much, Why and When? (Josef Machytka)
• What is Patroni, really? (Polina Bungina)

Sponsors

• ATROPOSS – The Browser-Based Crystal Ball for Your Database Future (Maik Sandmann)
• CloudNativePG with GitOps (Theodor Herlo)
• From Ground to Cloud: PostgreSQL with Aiven and Talon.One (Jakob Shimony (CTO, Talon.One), Dirk Krautschick (Aiven))
• pgBackRest Advanced Archiving and Recovery Magic You’ll Wish You Knew Sooner (Stefan Fercot)
• Postgres as an AI Knowledge Base (Torsten Steinbach)
• PostgreSQL als Open Source (Hans-Jürgen Schönig)
• PostgreSQL on Autopilot: Self-Service & Automation for DBAs (Raoul Illyés)
• The AI DBA agent: Would you trust it to tune your PostgreSQL? (Tudor Golubenco)
• YaK Core – The Holy Grail for Deploying Ansible Code Everywhere (Hervé Schweitzer)
• Your Data Deserves the Best: Migration to PostgreSQL (Josef Machytka, Alexander Wirt)
• Your LowCode Launchpad: STACKIT's Secure, Sovereign & Scalable Setup (Björn Sammet)

Platinum Sponsor Keynotes

• EDB and PostgreSQL - Today and Tomorrow (Peter Eisentraut)
• PostgreSQL: A Cornerstone for Sovereignty and Independence in the European Cloud (Richard Siekmann)
• Scaling Open Source for Real-World Impact: The PostgreSQL Cloud Journey (Jakob Shimony (CTO, Talon.One), Dirk Krautschick (Aiven))
• Successful integration of PostgreSQL at Finanz Informatik (Diego Calvo de Nó)