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postgres.scot is live!

Obviously I would have liked to post this closer to the event, but life got in the way.

Yesterday I had the pleasure of speaking at PGDay UK 2026 in London, at the Cavendish Conference Centre.

Back on Friday, July 17th, I joined Courtney from Manning for another LinkedIn Live, this time on what to do when you inherit a bad database.

Just in time for the PostgreSQL 19 betas, I'm excited to announce release 1.2 of pg_statviz, the minimalist extension and utility pair for time series analysis and visualization of PostgreSQL internal statistics.

POSETTE: An Event for Postgres 2026 is an online event for PostgreSQL, brought to us by the Postgres team at Microsoft, which took place on June 16-18, 2026.

Back on Friday, April 3rd, I ran a live, hands-on LinkedIn Live session on fixing bad SQL in PostgreSQL.

Actual sunshine ☀️ in Edinburgh 😲 and a room full of Postgres people catching up over pizza: July was good to us. 🐘 Thursday, July 9th brought us to Paterson's Land at the University of Edinburgh, and to a wonderfully diverse pair of talks: one on finding…

I'm excited to announce release 1.0 of pg_statviz, the minimalist extension and utility pair for time series analysis and visualization of PostgreSQL internal statistics.

Another great evening for the PostgresEDI community!

Obligatory selfie from SCaLE 23x The 23rd edition of the Southern California Linux Expo, or SCaLE 23x, took place from March 5-8, 2026, in Pasadena, California.

What a great follow-up for our second PostgresEDI meetup!

Back from Brussels where I was doing the annual pilgrimage to the awesome FOSDEM gathering.

I have to apologise — it's been months since PGConf.EU 2025 in Riga, and I'm only now publishing this video.

The Lister Learning and Teaching Centre at the University of Edinburgh.

Happy New Year!

I... seem to have discovered a new prime number visualization (?)

The beautiful Old College building at the University of Edinburgh.

I'm happy to announce release 0.8 of pg_statviz, the minimalist extension and utility pair for time series analysis and visualization of PostgreSQL internal statistics.

I recently attended 🇳🇱 PGDay Lowlands 2025, an awesome PostgreSQL Community Event which took place on September 12th in the wondrous environment of the Rotterdam Zoo.

I've just returned from the rapidly growing Free and Open Source Yearly conference, or FOSSY 2025, which took place from July 31st - August 3rd, 2025, in Portland, Oregon.

The 22nd edition of the Southern California Linux Expo, or SCaLE 22x, took place from March 6-9, 2025, in Pasadena, California.

This year, the 14th annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU for short) took place from October 22nd to October 25th in the historic city of Athens, Greece, featuring awesome content and awesome Mediterranean weather.

I'm pleased to announce release 0.7 of pg_statviz, the minimalist extension and utility pair for time series analysis and visualization of PostgreSQL internal statistics.

Some great news: there's a new European PostgreSQL event in the Netherlands taking place in Amsterdam in September: PGDay Lowlands 2024!

POSETTE 2024 is an online event for PostgreSQL (formerly known as Citus Con, kindly sponsored by Microsoft) which took place on June 11-13, 2024.

The 21st instalment of the Southern California Linux Expo, or SCaLE 21x, took place on March 14-17, 2024 at the Pasadena Convention Center.

So here's a very delayed blog post!

This year, the 13th annual PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU for short) took place from December 12th to December 15th in the beautiful Central European city of Prague.

Today at PGConf.DE 2023 in Essen I gave for the third and final time the talk titled "Don't Do This", inspired by the legendary "Don't Do This" PostgreSQL wiki page.

Last Sunday, I gave a talk at FOSDEM 2023 in Brussels in the packed PostgreSQL Devroom.

A few days ago we tried out a new talk format at PGConf.EU 2022 in Berlin in the form of a community panel discussing a topic and we chose the subject of PostgreSQL upgrades.

Thank you for the knowledge sharing, the hallway conversations, the friendship, the mentorship.

Hearing someone talk about migrating non-postgres applications to something that is also not #postgres #pgconfeu (Originally on Twitter: Fri Oct 28 14:42:43 +0000 2022)

⚠️ @JCasanovaEC of @systemguards shows that there's still not complete feature parity between pglogical and #postgres native logical replication #pgconfeu #postgresql (Originally on Twitter: Fri Oct 28 13:16:59 +0000 2022)

Whoa!?

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Thank you so much to @samokhvalov @Karenhjex @ascherbaum for participating!

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@magnushagander @samokhvalov @PostgreSQL What's wrong with recording our panel conversation but excluding the audience questions?

RT @PostgreSQL: News: PostgreSQL 15 Released!

I'm hosting a #PostgreSQL Community Panel on Upgradability with @ascherbaum, @Karenhjex and @samokhvalov at @pgconfeu 2022 in Berlin in two weeks!

ConnectwithEDB #Postgres #OpenSource #Dat… RT @EDBPostgres: Full house today at EDB Postgres, Cloud and Kubernetes Day in Milan, Italy!

PostgreSQL #conference #Berlin https://2022.pgconf.eu/speaker-interviews/tomas-vondra/ RT @pgconfeu: Read the #pgconfeu speaker interview with Tomas Vondra (@fuzzycz).

PostgreSQL #conference #Berlin https://t.co/… RT @pgconfeu: Read the #pgconfeu speaker interview with Nikolay Samokhvalov (@samokhvalov).

Postgres is one of the most flexible databases available, and it's open source. https… RT @opensourceway: Drop your database for PostgreSQL Postgres is one of the most flexible databases available, and it's open source. https… (Originally on Twitter: Wed…

RT @planetpostgres: Hans-Juergen Schoenig (@postgresql_007): PostgreSQL: Sequences vs.

@brihal4457 @ascherbaum @pgexperts @Xof @pgconfnyc Make sure the Postgres service is running by checking either with Windows services or with systemd under Linux.

RT @sjstoelting: Just finished some work on another #PostgreSQL foreign data wrapper #SPARQL.This one is based on multicorn2 now https://t.… (Originally on Twitter: Thu Aug 04 15:03:32 +0000 2022)

RT @PostgresWomen: Thanks to a very generous and anonymous donor, we have free tickets for 2 amazing women to attend pgconf Europe in Berli… (Originally on Twitter: Thu Jul 21 21:53:35 +0000 2022)