PG Down Under 2025
Surry Hills / Australia
October 17 2025
PG Down Under 2025
PG Down Under 2025 is the fifth annual conference dedicated to PostgreSQL developers, users, and enthusiasts in Australia and New Zealand. This event provides a platform for knowledge sharing, collaboration, and professional networking. The conference will be held on October 17, 2025, in Sydney, Australia.
PostgreSQL Down Under Incorporated (PGDU) is a non-profit association committed to supporting the growth and education of PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open-source database, across Australia and New Zealand.
We invite you to submit proposals for talks covering a broad range of PostgreSQL-related topics. PG Down Under welcomes submissions from PostgreSQL professionals, application developers, DBAs, operations engineers, decision-makers, and PostgreSQL contributors of all experience levels.
Important Dates:
- Submission Closing Date: July 31, 2025
- Speakers Notified By: August 15, 2025
- Sessions Announced: August 31, 2025
Please send us an email at committee@pgdu.org if you have any questions.
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Conference Highlights
Half a dozen exciting new features in PostgreSQL 16, 17 and 18
This is a three part talk. The first part gives a very high level overview of the areas of development in recent major releases, including planning, execution, partitioning, replication, backups, monitoring, security, I/O, ongoing modernisation work and more. In the second part, we'll look more closely at three selected new features that bring everyday benefits in terms of usability and maintenance: extended standardised JSON support new text collation support, and why it...
Scaling AI Frontiers: Building Production-Ready RAG Applications with PG Vector on PostgreSQL
The rise of Generative AI has made Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) a cornerstone for building intelligent, context-aware applications. While many solutions turn to specialized vector databases, this often introduces architectural complexity, data silos, and new operational overhead. What if you could build highly scalable, enterprise-grade RAG applications using the trusted, powerful, and familiar environment of PostgreSQL? This talk provides a comprehensive blueprint for leveraging...
Technical Deep Dive Into GitLab’s Database Load Balancer Architecture
Problem: Idle Replicas Many open source tools exist today for creating high availability deployments of Postgres. Most of these tools involve having 1 primary database and a fleet of replicas which have some small amount of replication lag. Almost all of these solutions mean running multiple Postgres servers with the same amount of disk space, CPU and memory in order to ensure that any replica is ready for failover at any time. This increases the cost of your infrastructure but it can...
Program
2025 has the most awesome program ever! See rock-star speakers cover the topics of
Ops and Administration
PostgreSQL pgroll – Zero-Downtime, Reversible Schema Migrations by Nishchay Kothari
Overcoming Challenges in SQL Server to PostgreSQL Migrations: Mapping Backups, Collations, and Case Sensitivity by Sameer Kumar
Demystifying PostgreSQL High Availability in the Cloud by Arpitha Vasudeva
Evolution of PostgreSQL Job Schedulers — pgAgent, pg_cron, and pg_timetable by Rajesh Kandasamy
Development
An Adventure with the Entity-Attribute-Value (EAV) data model by Mark Wong
Scaling AI Frontiers: Building Production-Ready RAG Applications with PG Vector on PostgreSQL by Tarun Chatterjee
Technical Deep Dive Into GitLab’s Database Load Balancer Architecture by Dylan Griffith
PostgreSQL Internals Uncovered: Enhancing Logical Replication and Introducing Columnar Indexing by Vigneshwaran C
Pull-up Optimization in the Postgres Planner by Alena Rybakina
Building SaaS scale Data store using PostgreSQL by Arul Arulappan
Essentials
PostgreSQL + People: The strategic advantage of Customer Success Evangelists by Hari Kiran
A Decade of Innovation: The Evolution of PostgreSQL's Query Optimizer (2015–2025) by Nikhil Bayawat
Tailoring CREATE PUBLICATION command for Targeted Data Replication by Peter Smith
PostgreSQL 18: The Ideal Foundation for Distributed, Scalable, and Analytical Applications by Ravi Kiran Venkata Bhaskarabhatta
Half a dozen exciting new features in PostgreSQL 16, 17 and 18 by Thomas Munro
Rydges Sydney Central
This year's conference will take place at Rydges Sydney Central, within easy walking distance from Central Station.