Hacking Workshop for September 2025

Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of David Rowley's talk, Writing fast C code for a modern CPU (and applying it to PostgreSQL), given at 2025.pgconf.dev (talk description here). If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. Thanks to David for agreeing to attend the sessions. As usual, nobody is too inexperienced to join us, and nobody is too experienced. We have everyone from total newcomers to interested committers.

One Year of Hacking Workshops

I started running PostgreSQL Hacking Workshops just about one year ago, and I've run one each month, except for May, when we had pgconf.dev. Signups are now open for August, if you're interested in joining us for a discussion of Peter Geoghan's talk on Multidimensional search strategies for composite B-Tree indexes, but I'd also like to take a few minutes to summarize where we are after one year of hacking workshops, both the good and the maybe not quite as good. So here goes.

PostgreSQL Hacking + Patch Review Workshops for July 2025

Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Tomas Vondra's talk, Fast-path locking improvements in PG18, given at 2025.pgconf.dev (talk description here). If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions. Thanks to Tomas for agreeing to attend the sessions. We'll have plenty more 2025.pgconf.dev talks on the schedule in future months, as well! As usual, nobody is too inexperienced to join us, and nobody is too experienced. We have everyone from total newcomers to interested committers.

Hacking Workshop for June 2025

Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Masahiko Sawada's talk, PostgreSQL meets ART - Using Adaptive Radix Tree to speed up vacuuming, from 2024.pgconf.dev. If you're interested in joining us, please sign up using this form and I will send you an invite to one of the sessions.

Mentoring Applications and Hacking Workshop for April 2025

Here are a few mentoring-related updates.

PostgreSQL Hacking + Patch Review Workshops - March 2025

This month, I'm excited to tell you about the returning of the PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop along with a new Patch Review Workshop organized by Paul Jungwirth.

Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2024?

People continue to tell me on a semi-regular basis how much they appreciate these approximately annual posts, the first of which came out in April of 2017. I think this might be more because the project doesn't have enough official ways to recognize people than it is an endorsement of the particular thing that I've done here, the limitations of which I am always careful to mention. In particular, I do not intend this as a comprehensive picture of contributions to the project, or even to development activity; and I lack the data to fairly divide credit for a single commit between multiple individuals. Nevertheless, I am very grateful to all the people who have expressed appreciation for these posts, or told me about the value that they derived from them. Thank you so much.