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. 

Here's the concept: First, you watch a video. Then, you can sign up to participate in a Zoom call whose purpose is to discuss the video. The Zoom call will not be a presentation, and we will not watch the video during the Zoom call. You need to watch the video first and then come prepared to talk about it with other people who (hopefully) also watched the video. If you show up to the call with no questions and no comments, you're not doing it right!

We had a vote in the PostgreSQL Mentoring Discord to pick a topic for the first talk (see here for a query that will give you a link to join). As the top two talks were very close in terms of total number of votes, I decided that we would cover both, one in August, and the other in September.

August 2024: Robert Haas, CMU Database Group, PostgreSQL Optimizer Methodology

September 2024: Andrey Borodin, Byte Relay, Walk-through of Implementing Simple Postgres Patch: From sources to CI

To sign up for August's discussion of PostgreSQL Optimizer Methodology, use this form. To attempt to accommodate as many people as possible, I've schedule three sessions which are at different times of the day, different days of the week, and different weeks (see the form for details). Nonetheless, to keep each discussion to a reasonable size, the total number of spots is limited. Out of consideration for my time and the time of other panelists and attendees, please do not sign up unless you will actually watch the video, attend the call, and participate in the discussion. If you do wish to sign up, please do so no later than Thursday, August 1st.

To suggest possible talks for future sessions, please join the Discord server. Likewise, when we need to vote on topics for October and beyond, that will happen in the Discord server. You can also use the Discord server to discuss these videos right now, or any other topic related to hacking on PostgreSQL!