In this episode, we talk Postgres committer Melanie Plagemean about her involvement with @PGConfdev, improvements to vacuum scheduling and auto vacuum configuration, the logical replication of DDL, and platforms such as CNCF and Kubernetes integrating with Postgres.

Links mentioned:

PGConf.dev

YouTube – CMU Database Group

Path To Citus Con Podcast

@melanieplageman@mastodon.social

Melanie on X (@melanieplageman)

Bharath Rupireddy has carved a niche for himself in the Postgres community since he began using the database system back in 2020. From his start at EnterpriseDB to making strides at Microsoft, and now contributing to the AWS open-source project, Bharath is entrenched in the inner workings of Postgres development. He has worked in many areas of Postgres such as WAL, Replication, pg_walinspect extension, bug fixes, performance improvements, new SQL functions etc.

In this episode we explore:

• Starting with Postgres in 2020 and learning the basics while contributing to Parallel COPY feature
• Postgres recent features such as pg_walinspect extension, WAL source switch from archive to streaming, WAL insertion lock improvements, WAL read from buffers, more replication slot invalidation mechanisms like XID age based and inactive_timeout based ones, new table access methods for multi inserts.
• The future of native active-active replication
• The complexities of conflict resolution
• Using PostgreSQL 16 in production scenarios for active-active replication
• The role of databases evolving within different industries

Links mentioned:

¡Databases! – A Database Seminar Series

Hacking Postgres, Ep. 9: Bertrand Drouvot

PGConf India

Hyderabad PostgreSQL User Group

PGConf.dev

Bharath on LinkedIn

Bharath on X (@BRupireddy)

Bharath on Github

As the podcast host of The Builders, member of Postgres Women, and Staff Engineer at EDB, Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek is passionate to see where this space will take us. We kick off Season 2 with Gülçin as she shares her journey in the tech industry, CloudNativePG, the impact of AI on Postgres, and the representation of women in the Postgres community.

In this episode we explore:

• CloudNativePG in Gülçin’s products and the new SPGVector release
• Welcoming new developers to the PostgreSQL community
• Tembo Cloud, PG vector, and the challenges and rewards of contributing to such innovative projects
• Improving inclusivity and support for women in the tech industry
• The use of Postgres in AI workloads

Links mentioned:

The Builders: A Postgres Podcast

Gülçin Yıldırım Jelínek on X

EDB

Postgres Women on X