I have a new blog out today on sampling and approximates in Postgres. www.snowflake.com/en/blog/engi...
Elizabeth Garrett Christensen
@sqlliz.bsky.social
#Postgres @snowflake via @crunchydata.com. Board member @pgus.bsky.social. Co-host of #PostGIS day.
Christopher Winslett: British Columbia, Time Zones, and Postgres https://postgr.es/p/9m4 #postgresql
Q&A about Postgres async i/o today. Join us! www.meetup.com/postgres-mee... (we'll record it too!)
Postgres Async I/O Q&A with Tomas Vondra, Wed, Jun 17, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Postgres 18 was released with Asynchronous I/O (AIO) out of the box which is expected to have wide sweeping performance improvements for many users - 4-5x better read perfo
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Postgres for everything chapter 37 😂 Cypher graphs with the Apache Age extension in Postgres. snowflake.com/en/blog/engi...
Graph Queries in Postgres with Apache AGE
Learn how to run openCypher graph queries natively inside PostgreSQL using Apache AGE. Query your Iceberg data lakes efficiently with zero data movement.
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Do you need to tune Postgres Vacuum? Probably not. More in a new Snowflake blog snowflake.com/en/engineeri...
Postgres Vacuum Explained: Autovacuum, Bloat and Tuning
Learn why Postgres vacuuming matters, how autovacuum works, and when to tune it to prevent bloat, improve performance, and avoid transaction ID wraparound issues.
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There are now 100% open source Postgres training materials. www.github.com/Snowflake-La...
GitHub - Snowflake-Labs/postgres-full-day-training: Comprehensive PostgreSQL training with hand's on exercises.
Comprehensive PostgreSQL training with hand's on exercises. - Snowflake-Labs/postgres-full-day-training
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Postgres Meetup for All - this Wednesday - let's talk about Vibe Coding. 9am Pacific - 12 pm Eastern - 16:00 UTC. Can't make it? Recordings of past events available at youtube.com/@pgus www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
Vibe Coding with Postgres, Wed, Mar 18, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Matt Cornillon from Google will be at Postgres Meetup for All this month to talk about vibe coding in Postgres. The latest Stack Overflow survey shows 84% of developers ar
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Tomorrow's Postgres Meetup for All is about scaling Postgres ... but without boiling the ocean. Should be a great discussion. Join us! www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
Scaling Postgres without Boiling the Ocean, Wed, Feb 18, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Shayon Mukherjee is a Principal Engineer at Tines, the intelligent workflow platform that helps security and IT teams securely scale AI and automation. Shayon has deep expe
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New blog: Postgres Serials Should Be BIGINT and How to Migrate www.crunchydata.com/blog/postgre...
Postgres Serials Should be BIGINT (and How to Migrate) | Crunchy Data Blog
Postgres 18 defaults to checksums on. This is a good feature for data integrity but might catch you off guard with an upgrade.
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Next Tuesday @marcoslot.com will be at Postgres Meetup for * to talk about pg_lake - #Postgres for #Iceberg with #DuckDB. Join us! www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
Postgres for the lakehouse: pg_lake, Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Marco Slot will be here this month to talk about the new extension pg_lake that connects Postgres to lakehouse and object storage - for Iceberg, Parquet, csv and more. As
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Postgres and VS Code. Lets get better at it together at this week's Postgres meetup. www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
VS Code Tools for Postgres, Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Let’s dive into the productivity tools and tricks when using VS code to work with Postgres. Matt McFarland is the lead engineer at Microsoft on their VS Code tools for Post
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Exciting days ahead at Snowflake with the integration of transactional and analytical workloads. Postgres + Snowflake unlocks data unification that is pretty revolutionary. 🐘 + ❄️ = 🙌 I'll be doing a talk next week about the future of data. Join me! www.snowflake.com/en/webinars/...
The End of Data Silos: Unify Transactions and Analytics on a Single Platform
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The PostGIS Day program for next Thursday is 🔥. Come join us for talks from industry experts at Snowflake, Carto, Felt Maps, Wherobots, Open Street Maps and more! Case studies from Kenya, State Farm, Forestry, Flood Management. Nov 20 - reg and full schedule: www.snowflake.com/postgis-day-...
PostGIS Day | November 20
Learn how others are making use of PostGIS, pick up some tips and tricks, and share stories about bringing this excellent tool into your organizations.
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Postgres Meetup for All Wednesday is about Multigres ... Vitess for Postgres! meetup.com/postgres-mee...
Engineering Multigres: Under the Hood of Supabase’s New Postgres Proxy, Wed, Oct 29, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Sugu will be at Postgres Meetup for All this month to do go under the hood of Multigres. This project is related to the Vitess for MySQL and adds features for Postgres clus
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@pwramsey.bsky.social and I are hosting PostGIS Day again this year! The call for papers and registration is open now. Join us! www.snowflake.com/postgis-day-...
PostGIS Day | November 20
Learn how others are making use of PostGIS, pick up some tips and tricks, and share stories about bringing this excellent tool into your organizations.
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Postgres performance mistakes ... and how to fix them 💪 @andyatkinson.com www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
10 Costly Database Performance Mistakes (and How to Fix Them), Wed, Jun 18, 2025, 12:00 PM | Meetup
Andrew Atkinson works hands on with Ruby on Rails and Postgres performance. He even wrote[ a book ](https://pragprog.com/titles/aapsql/high-performance-postgresql-for-rails
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PostGIS tip: Get faster spatial queries and maps with st_simplfy. ⚡ When you don't need exact topology and want to make things faster and simpler, look at the ST_Simplify and ST_SimplifyPreserveTopology functions. Example in the video.
We have a new venue for PGConf NYC 2025 and a new hotel to go with it! Check it out and book now: 2025.pgconf.nyc/venue/ @PostgreSQL #postgres #conference
PGConf NYC 2025 | PostgreSQL Conference
PGConf NYC 2025 will be held from on September 29th - October 1st in New York City, NY at Convene 117 West 46th Street.
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Postgres Meetup for All in a few hours will be meeting up to chat about connection pooling/failover with the new pgDog project (and pgCat). Join us! www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
Postgres Connection Pooling with PgDog & PgCat, Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 1:00 PM | Meetup
Lev Kokotov will be at the April meetup to talk about his work with the connection pooler [PgCat ](https://github.com/postgresml/pgcat)and its new successor project [PgDog]
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Postgres Meetup for All topic today is schema migrations March 12th at 10 central (an hour from now). There aren't a lot of opportunities to compare open source tools side by side like this - join us! www.meetup.com/postgres-mee.... @ryanbooz.bsky.social @apatheticmagpie.bsky.social @theory.fyi
Postgres Schema Migrations, Wed, Mar 12, 2025, 11:00 AM | Meetup
This month’s meetup will focus on schema migrations with a panel discussion from 3 different industry experts. * Ryan Booz will join us from Red Gate to talk about the Fly
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Postgres people starter pack! go.bsky.app/Acp7hmk
Tomorrow the Postgres Meetup for All will be hosting Philippe Noël (@philippemnoel.bsky.social) from ParadeDB. Phil will present for about 30 minutes and we'll have the rest of the time for discussion about Postgres and search. Join us! www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
Today I got to play around with @crunchydata.com's new data warehouse. - connected to the entire world's building footprint data in @overturemaps.bsky.social - made a local table of tornado path data from FEMA - joined them together - set up a web browser to view the join with pg_tileserv 💥
Interesting & timely discussion from the OSM community regarding what goes into place naming. community.openstreetmap.org/t/gulf-of-am...
Gulf of America - Gulf of Mexico
President Donald Trump just said during his inauguration that he wants to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. Aside from the political aspects, how does that even work? How does OSM cho...
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I was very touched to see I was just included on the contributors list for PostgreSQL. I just adore the Postgres community - they've made it very easy to contribute and have been more than welcoming. Congrats and thank you to all the new Postgres contributors too. www.postgresql.org/about/news/n...
New PostgreSQL Contributors
The [PostgreSQL Contributors Page](https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/) includes people who have made substantial, long-term contributions of time and effort to the PostgreSQL project. ...
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Postgres Meetup for All topic this Wednesday is DuckDB. There's a lot happening with #PostgreSQL & @duckdb.org. This meetup is open to all levels from just curious to experienced users. We'll have a 30 minute talk with plenty of discussion time. Join us! www.meetup.com/postgres-mee...
