Vacuum and autovacuum I started the second day of PGConf.EU with a session about vacuum and autovacuum, presented by Teresa Lopes.After a short introduction to how MVCC works, she presented the different elements related to autovacuum:What are the different phases of autovacuum? What can trigger autovacuum? Which parameters can influence autovacuum? All these points were explained in a simple and…
This week I was in Valencia for the PGConf.EU 2026, the biggest PostgreSQL conference in Europe. Something surprised me right at the start. During the welcome session on the first day, the organizers asked who was attending for the first time, and around 30% of the room raised their hand! I don’t know exactly what it means, maybe more companies…
Welcome to Valencia! This year, the European PostgreSQL conference, PGConf.EU, takes place at the Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, Spain. I am lucky to be able to attend it with some colleagues from dbi services. Let’s see what’s going on there… I started the first day with a quick tour of the both of the different conference sponsors. I then…
I was fortunate to be able to attend at the pgconf.eu 2025. This year event was happening in RIGA and joined together once again key members of the community, contributors, committers, sponsors and users from across the world. I would summarize this year event with those three main topics : AI/LLM – PG18- Monitoring. AI/LLMs Compared to last year the…
Attending PostgreSQL Conference Europe 2024 in Athens is an incredible experience, full of enriching conversations and technical deep dives. As a DBA Consultant and speaker (on the reserve list and honored to have been chosen), it was my first time meeting this amazing community in person and I was immediately struck by the camaraderie and shared passion for PostgreSQL. The…
Last week was the week of the European PostgreSQL Conference in Prague which I was allowed to join once more. An amazing location was waiting for all the participants and once I entered the hotel, I already felt warmly welcomed in the PostgreSQL Community world. Besides the very interesting program the committee prepared this year, there was of course a…
Last week, the biggest European PostgreSQL event of the year took place in Berlin (2022.pgconf.eu). This event is an excellent opportunity to meet developers from the PostgreSQL community and to attend high profile tech presentations. Tuesday evening we started with the traditional “Schweizer Abend” Dinner with the Swiss community. We had a special guest at our table with Frits Hoogland…
2022.pgconf.eu is currently happening in Berlin. We have a record number of 600 attendees, this makes it the largest ever PostgreSQL Conference Europe and we’re hitting the hard limits of the venue. But even with that number of people it still feels comfortable. Just before the opening started yesterday, this is how the room looked like: When it finally started…
On tuesday I started my journey to Milan to attend my first pgconf.eu, which was also my first big conference. I was really excited what will come up to me. How will it be, to become a visible part of the community. How will it be, to give my first presentation in front of so many people? The conference started…
One of the major advantages of PostgreSQL conferences when you compare it to other conferences is, that you can listen to talks where the actual developers are presenting their work. You have questions about a feature, you want to know more about this or that: Just catch one of the developers and start to talk. It is as easy as…
