Robert Haas
VP, Chief Database Scientist @ EnterpriseDB, PostgreSQL Major Contributor and Committer
Sunday, September 29, 2024
PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop - October 2024
Sunday, August 18, 2024
PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop - September 2024
Our talk for September 2024 will is by Andrey Borodin on his Youtube Channel "Byte Relay." The talk is Walk-through of Implementing Simple Postgres Patch: From sources to CI. I picked this talk for two reasons: first, in the poll I ran in the PostgreSQL Hacker Mentoring Discord, it got almost as many votes as the talk we did this month on the query planner. Second, I wanted to have at least some content that was targeted toward newer developers.
Monday, August 05, 2024
Posting Your Patch On pgsql-hackers
Sunday, July 28, 2024
PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop - August 2024
I'm pleased to be able to formally announce the PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop, as well as our first two topics, planned for August and September 2024.
Tuesday, July 09, 2024
Mentoring Program Updates
Here are a few updates on the mentoring program that I announced in a previous blog post.
First, I ended up keeping applications open for 12 days. During that time, I got 34 applications. Many of the 9 committer-mentors who initially offered to mentor one person ended up deciding that they would be willing to mentor two people, so I was able to send out 14 acceptances, which I think is a great result, especially considering that this is the first time we've done something like this.
Friday, June 21, 2024
Mentoring Program for Code Contributors
Yesterday, I announced a call for applications for a new mentoring program for PostgreSQL code contributors that I'm trying to start. I'm posting this on my blog as well for better visibility, and also to offer a few more comments and thoughts on this general topic of mentoring.
Thursday, June 06, 2024
2024.pgconf.dev and Growing the Community
I think 2024.pgconf.dev was a great event. I am really grateful to the organizing team for all the work that they did to put this event together, and I think they did a great job. I feel that it was really productive for me and for the PostgreSQL development community as a whole. Like most things in life, it was not perfect. But it was really good, and I'm looking forward to going back next year. It was also a blast to see Professor Margo Seltzer again; I worked for her as a research assistant many years ago. She gave a wonderful keynote.