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Dear PostgreSQL Community, We are pleased to announce that the Call for Papers for PGDay Israel 2026 is now open. We invite community members, users, and developers to submit proposals for talks and presentations. Whether you are working with PostgreSQL in production, contributing to the project, or exploring innovative use cases, we would be delighted to hear from you. Important dates: - Submission deadline: July 1, 2026 Submission process: [email protected] Each proposal should include the fol
The Call for Papers for the PGConf.EU 2026 main conference track, as well as the Calls for Presentations for sessions taking place during Community Events Day, are now open. All submission deadlines close on 1 June 2026. Main Conference Track The main conference CFP can be found here. The conference will feature 45-minute and 25-minute sessions, all held in English. We welcome presentations on any PostgreSQL-related topic. For topic suggestions, please see the conference website. You can also re
check_pgactivity version 2.10 released check_pgactivity is a PostgreSQL plugin for Nagios. This plugin is written with a focus on a rich perfdata set. Every new features of PostgreSQL can be easily monitored with check_pgactivity. Changelog : add: new unused_indexes service add: new relation_size service change: pgss_dealloc service now handles --dbservice change: invalid_indexes now also gets TOAST invalid indexes change: add the database name to a query error message change: set application_na
The schedule is now online. New this year: Birds of a Feather (BoF). Registration is moving quickly. Swiss PGDay 2026 The Swiss PostgreSQL Conference. Website The Swiss PGDay 2026 schedule is live at 2026.pgday.ch/schedule/. Review two days of PostgreSQL sessions in English and German and plan your time in Rapperswil. New this year, Birds of a Feather (BoF) adds a discussion-led format alongside the Poster Exhibition and Lightning Talks, creating more room for practical exchange across the Pos
Excited to announce release 1.0 of pg_statviz, the minimalist extension and utility pair for time series analysis and visualization of PostgreSQL internal statistics. This is a major release that introduces a new optional capability: AI-powered analysis. With the new --ai flag, each chart's data and PNG are sent to a vision-capable LLM along with Senior PostgreSQL DBA-level context, and the model produces a [HEALTHY] / [WARNING] / [CRITICAL] verdict, a short interpretation, and a concrete remedi
Early AI agents handled one-shot jobs that took a few minutes: fix this bug, write this function, generate this test. More recent workflows are multi-step, tool-using, and stateful over extended sessions — an agent might spend a full afternoon refacto...
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