Introducing the pgconf.dev 2026 conference t-shirt! 🐘🎉 This year we're celebrating 30 years of PostgreSQL, and Slonik is dressed for the occasion. The only way to get one? Be there. See you in Vancouver, May 19–22.

I'm so excited to go on Talking Postgres! One of my fav podcasts! I'll chat about my journey to found Nile and discover Postgres. The podcast has a Discord channel where fans discuss the episode as it is recorded. If you want to join ua live, let me know and I'll send you an invite.

PGConf.dev 2026 needs volunteers! Room hosts, registration desk, and more. If you're attending in Vancouver, we'd love your help. Email contact@pgconf.dev to sign up! Details: https://2026.pgconf....

Tuesday is community engagement day 🐘 Hot take: it is the best day! Full of panels and discussions. Whether you're a first-timer or a longtime contributor, there's a seat at the table. Schedule (more sessions still being added!) → https://2026.pgconf....

The pgconf.dev 2026 schedule is stacked 🐘✨ WAL internals, query planning, logical replication, temporal data, columnar storage, 30 years of Postgres retrospective… and cake cutting. Something for every Postgres nerd. Full schedule → https://2026.pgconf....

Poster sessions are honestly my favorite for complex deepdive topics. It is visual, conversational, collaborative and includes coffee. Just how I like my deep technical content.

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Poster sessions are now open for PGConf.dev 2026! If you’re thinking of or working on a Postgres patch, extension, tool, research project, or community initiative, posters are a great way to: - Present work visually - Get early feedback - Find reviewers or collaborators

PGConf.dev 2026: top things to do at the conference: • Debate MVCC trivia with strangers • Discover a feature you didn’t know you needed • Realize you’re not the only one who reads pg_waldump for fun Registration and CFP are open.

CFP for PGConf.dev 2026 is open until Jan 16 🐘 Tips for strong proposals: • Share what you discovered. Not just what you built. • Be specific • Discuss bigger Postgres picture • Failures welcome Be specific, connect to Postgres internals, and don’t hide the messy bits.

At what point do we stop saying “worth its weight in gold” and start saying “worth its weight in high-end GPU”?

So.. Pierre Barre just built an NFS server implementation on SlateDB. ZeroFS is today days old, but it's going to get wild. Bottomless storage and checkpoints mean instant FS snapshots (zero overhead). github.com/Barre/zerofs

I use a spreadsheet to track all my documentation It's important to keep all your docs in a row

Videos from PgConfDev are starting to show up on YouTube! Great time to catch up on both the new content and the amazing talks from past events. You can start with my talk: "Scaling Postgres to Million Tenants" www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAS...

Re-engineering Postgres for Millions of Tenants (PGConf.dev 2025)

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So, Tensor (as in Pytorch) is just like a vector, except that it is somehow better for GPUs? Did I get that right?

“Why is Postgres seq-scanning rather than use this index?” 🤯 Short answer: the planner thinks that index won’t help (or can’t use it). Longer answer—5 usual suspects 👇

Cats are great, actually.

New blog: Using Postgres pg_test_fsync tool for testing low latency writes An easy to use tool that comes with standard Postgres installation, for testing write latency of devices where you put your WAL/redo logs and any other files requiring low write latency. (link in reply)

I feel like I've found a new controlling meme for open source contribution and innovation.

I've registered it with context7 so it's now available as up-to-date nile documentation via the context7 MCP context7.com/www.thenile....

Context7 - Up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors

Generate context with up-to-date documentation for LLMs and AI code editors

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🚨 New blog alert: Postgres 18 beta 1 was released last week, and includes native support for UUIDv7. Great opportunity to explain why UUIDv7 is a great fit for your database keys, and show you how to use them in PG18. www.thenile.dev/blog/uuidv7

You know the advice to say "thank you" instead of "sorry"? It looks like ChatGPT took it to heart. Me: You just said something incorrect. ChatGPT: Thank you for keeping it precise.

Preparing a presentation (this is a draft from early in the year, so probably preparing for Monster Scale). Looks like a mess, but IIRC, the result was actually good.

PGConf.dev 2025 starts in 13 days. Conference swag is starting to arrive in Montreal. Are your travel plans set? You can still register. https://2025.pgconf.... #Postgresql #PGConf.dev

We have a new venue for PGConf NYC 2025 and a new hotel to go with it! Check it out and book now:

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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Folks at Google: there's no longer a button to get the PDF of your research papers directly from your website. Instead you have to do a hop through Google Scholar. Is that intentional? Seems worse than it used to be before.

Running TPC-C can be a bit challenging. Running pgbench is easy (it ships with Postgres and uses simple Postgres configs), but its main built-in script is TPC-B. Thankfully, Ryo Kanbayashi wrote a pgbench script that is TPC-C-like: github.com/ryogrid/tpcc...

Serious question: Why do so many developers hate stored procedures?

⚡️ LAST DAYS for DataEngBytes 2025 Percolating tickets! After April 30th, prices increase from $449 to $499. Don't miss Oceania's premier data engineering & ML conference this July in Sydney & Melbourne! dataengbytes.com

What great engineering looks like: invisible at most times… except when it matters. Had no idea an iPhone would measure water presence on a charging port and warn for it. But it does! Was at a pool and a few hours later when plugging it in got this helpful message.