Robert Haas

October's hacking workshop will cover my talk,  pg_plan_advice: Plan Stability and User Planner Control for PostgreSQL? . If you're ...

I'm pleased to announce that David Rowley will be joining us in September to discuss his talk Optimizing code in the hot path; with exam...

I was hoping to usual resume the monthly cadence of hacking workshops in June, but it didn't quite happen, largely due to being a little...

I'm planning to hold a single hacking workshop for April and May combined, covering Masahiko Sawada's talk,  Breaking away from FREE...

I'm proposing a very ambitious patch set for PostgreSQL 19. Only time will tell whether it ends up in the release, but I can't resis...

For next month's hacking workshop, I'm scheduling 2 or 3 discussions of Tomas Vondra's talk, Performance Archaeology , given at ...

Here is another annual blog post breaking down code contributions to PostgreSQL itself (not ecosystem projects) by principal author. I have ...

For next month, I'm scheduling 2 or 3 discussions of Amit Langote's talk, Hacking Postgres Executor For Performance , given at PGCon...

The PostgreSQL Hacking Workshop will be taking a well-earned Christmas break in December of 2025. The future of the workshop is a little bit...

For next month, I'm scheduling 2 or 3 discussions of Matthias van de Meent's talk, Improving scalability; Reducing overhead in share...

Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Thomas Munro's talk, Investigating Multithreaded PostgreSQL , given at 2025.pgconf...

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 Post...

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....

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...

Next month, I'll be hosting 2 or 3 discussions of Masahiko Sawada's talk, PostgreSQL meets ART - Using Adaptive Radix Tree to speed ...

Here are a few mentoring-related updates.

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

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...

Please considering joining us next month (February 2025) for a discussion of Heikki Linnakangas's talk on The Wire Protocol , from PGCON...

The call for proposals for 2025.pgconf.dev has been extended to January 6, 2025, otherwise known as "very soon". I'm writing ...