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On 7th of May, 2026, we had the PostgreSQL May Meetup in Berlin. AWS hosted it again, this time we had two speakers from UK and US.

This was my first time attending PGConf.India. Something I wanted to do for quite a while, heard good things about the conference. but never had a chance before. The conference is well attended, and very vibrant. Good presentations, a lot of questions about *WarehousePG* (the talk I gave) and about *PostgreSQL* in general.

On 5th of March, 2026, we had the PostgreSQL March Meetup in Berlin. Zalando hosted it again, and like last time it was four regular talks in two parallel tracks. The Meetup took place in the Hedwig-Wachenheim-Straße in Berlin, right around the corner from the Uber Arena and East Side Gallery. The event was co-sponsored by Zalando (venue, drinks) and AWS (pizza, snacks).

On December 10th, 2025, the PostgreSQL December Meetup in Frankfurt (Main) took place. We had two speakers, and a nice dinner.

Back in July I submitted talks to the annual PostgreSQL Conference Japan 2025 (PostgreSQL カンファレンス 2025). This year is the 20th year of the conference, I was told. To my surprise, one of my submitted talks was accepted.

On November 13th, 2025, we had the PostgreSQL November Meetup in Berlin. Redgate Software hosted us again, this time in a larger meeting room at The Social Hub Berlin.

This blog posting compares the performance of the pg_tde by Percona extension for PostgreSQL with the performance of an unmodified PostgreSQL. The pg_tde by Percona extension provides encryption for both data pages on disk as well as WAL files on disk - Encryption at Rest.

On Monday before PGConf.dev, the Postgres Extensions Day 2025 took place. Same venue, same floor. A day fully packed with talks, and interesting discussions.

This blog posting is part of a series about organizing Meetups. You found an interesting Meetup, and like to sign up. Before you do that, here are a couple of things to consider.

This blog posting is part of a series about organizing Meetups. You are organizing a Meetup. Congratulations, this is big! Here are some recommendations.