PGDay UK 2025

The third annual PGDay UK was (again) held at the Cavindish Conference Center in London this year, and I participated for the first time with an updated English version of my PGConf.DE talk, “PostgreSQL Performance Tuning”.

The conference is a one-day, one-track event with an auditorium and a sponsor hall for breaks. Around 75 visitors participated in this year’s conference.

After the welcome session, the first talk was by Bruce Momjian on “Future Postgres Challenges” – a thoughtful compilation on the current status and possible future challenges for Postgres. It looks like the project is currently healthy, and some of the cautionary tales he cited from other open source projects (CentOS, GCC fork, etc.) probably will not apply to Postgres, at least not for a long while. He also mentioned some technological challenges however, and this part (especially attracting young talent to a C code base) looks more worrisome.

Besides the talks, there were also ample discussions with the participants, sponsors and other speakers. I had long discussions with Michael Christofides from pgMustard about his Postgres.FM podcast, and with our ex-colleague Robert Treat, besides others.

After the conference, some of the participants moved over to a nearby pub for beers and further socializing. Many of the speakers, sponsors and organizers travelled onwards the next day to PGDay Lowlands, which took place later in the week in Rotterdam (see our report from that event here). All in all, this was a very successful (albeit smallish) event.

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Michael Banck

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Michael Banck has been an employee of credativ GmbH since 2009, a member of the Debian project since 2001, and is also active in other open-source projects. As a member of the database team at credativ, he has supported and advised various customers in recent years on solving problems with and the daily operation of PostgreSQL®, as well as on the introduction of high-availability solutions in the database sector.

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