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PGConf India 2026 - Review

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0200

This was my first time attending PGConf.India. That is a conference I wanted to visit for quite a while, heard good things about the it, but never had a chance before. During past years it overlapped with another conference I’m attending in Germany - but this year it worked out! Overall this is the 9th Indian PostgreSQL Conference, with no signs of slowing down.

Stage at PGConf India 2026

Avoid empty linebreaks in Daily Notes Lists in Obsidian

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 00:57:30 +0200

In my Daily Notes in ObsidianMD I want to add entries on certain weekdays. However this added empty lines in-between. Figuring out what is going on in the Template takes some time and effort.

PostgreSQL Berlin July 2024 Meetup

Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:09:50 +0200

On July 16th, 2024, we had the PostgreSQL July Meetup in Berlin. Adjust hosted and Neon sponsored the Meetup in their Berlin Headquarter at Prenzlauer Berg, near the TV Tower.

Cyber Agora #10: Artificial Intelligence in Planning

Thu, 20 Jun 2024 01:32:09 +0200

The International Society of City and Regional Planners (ISOCARP) invited to an interesting online event: Artificial Intelligence in Planning. Urban planning is not an area with which I have many points of interaction. However Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a major role in my field of expertise. Therefore I joined the event to find out how other fields are studying and applying artificial intelligence to their work.

PostgreSQL Development Conference 2024 - Review

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 02:00:25 +0200

This year’s PGCon was different. For starters, the conference is renamed to PGConf.dev, and it no longer takes place in Ottawa, but in Vancouver, BC. It’s also a new team which organized the conference, and they did a superb job!

PGSQL Phriday #0014 - PostgreSQL Events

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:16:02 +0100

Pavlo Golub is hosting this month’s PGSQL Phriday. The topic is “PostgreSQL Events”.

PGSQL Phriday #008 – pg_stat_statements

Sat, 06 May 2023 18:49:00 +0200

The topic for this month’s PGSQL Phriday blogging challenge is: pg_stat_statement. And Michael Christofides gave me a perfect opener in his invitation.

For anyone who doesn’t know, I’m running a weekly interview series with people from the PostgreSQL community. It’s called “PostgreSQL Person of the Week”. One of the questions in the default set I give everyone is:

Dynamic content in static websites in Hugo

Thu, 02 Mar 2023 18:21:00 +0100

With people moving away from Twitter, mostly to Mastodon, discovering the new accounts became a problem.

For people in the PostgreSQL community I created a website which lists different social media accounts. This website is part of the “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” interview project, however the data source is dynamic, and stored in a different repository. This allows me to keep the repository for the website private, but publish the data for the social media links - this data is public anyway. The interview repository is private, because who wants to see upcoming interviews anyway? ;-)

PGSQL Phriday #004: PostgreSQL and Software Development

Sun, 01 Jan 2023 23:21:00 +0100

Henrietta Dombrovskaya asks about Software Development and PostgreSQL. That’s a very broad topic.

Not being a big developer for myself, and only occasionally submitting patches here and there, I nevertheless have a vast amount of data available on the topic: the “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” interviews! There are a few questions in the interviews which relate to this topic:

PGSQL Phriday #003: What is the PostgreSQL Community to me

Sun, 04 Dec 2022 22:42:00 +0100

Pat Wright is running this month’s #PGSQLPhriday, and the topic is “What is the PostgreSQL Community to you?”

The answer for me is very versatile, and covers quite a lot. Took me a moment to gather the facets, and likely I’m still missing some parts.

The PostgreSQL community for me is friends, databases, events, learning, speaking, teaching, writing, and much more.

Hugo: Count entries in Taxonomy

Wed, 08 Jun 2022 18:49:00 +0200

For the “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” interviews I’m using Hugo as static blogging engine. Part of every interview is the list of tags, which links this interview to other similar interviews. However until recently no one really knew if a tag is popular or just used in this interview. I wanted to change this, and add the tag count behind every tag.

Google Sheets: Format cell background based on a value in a cell in another sheet

Tue, 07 Jun 2022 22:46:00 +0200

My problem: sometimes I forget to review published interviews for a talk.

I publish a weekly interview series, the “PostgreSQL Person of the Week” interviews. The data lives in a big spreadsheet, which has several sub-sheets.

Public previews in Hugo

Sat, 14 Mar 2020 16:44:00 +0100

Hugo is a static templating system. It is (mainly) used to deploy websites/blogs which don’t have and need dynamic content. The content of all pages is pre-generated, and the webserver delivers files from disk (or rather from cache, once files are loaded into memory). This approach allows for extremely fast websites, as no dynamic content is generated on every request.

While I know Hugo from work, I haven’t really used it for private projects - until recently. I have started a new project where I present interviews with people behind the PostgreSQL Project - and this is perfect for a static website. Interviews don’t change, once published.

PostgreSQL @ FOSDEM 2018

Thu, 01 Feb 2018 10:54:00 +0100

For more than 10 years, the PostgreSQL Project is present at FOSDEM. We also organize a separate PostgreSQL Day on Friday.

This blog post presents useful information about both the PGDay and the booth and devroom at FOSDEM.

PostgreSQL @ FOSDEM 2017 - Review

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 21:59:00 +0100

FOSDEM 2017 is over, and hopefully everyone is back home. Time for a short review.

Once again, PostgreSQL ran a pre-conference to FOSDEM, called PGDay. One day just filled with awesome PostgreSQL talks, and meeting community members.

Many speakers uploaded or linked their talks to the PostgreSQL Wiki. If the slides for a talk are missing, please contact the speaker and ask them to upload or link the slides. (For the record, my slides are here)

PostgreSQL @ FOSDEM 2017

Sat, 28 Jan 2017 20:37:00 +0100

Like the past 10 or so years, the PostgreSQL Project is present at FOSDEM 2017. We also organize a separate PostgreSQL Day on Friday.

This blog post presents vital information about both the PGDay and the booth and devroom at FOSDEM.

Free Software Magazine article about PGDay 2007

Mon, 14 May 2007 00:44:54 +0200

The Free Software Magazine has a nice article about the organisers and the organisation of the PGDay 2007 in Italy: