PG Down Under 2026

PG Down Under 2026 is the sixth 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 30, 2026, 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: 15 July 2026
  • Speakers Notified By: 3 August 2026
  • Sessions Announced: 17 August 2026
  • Early Bird Ends: 31 August 2026

Please send us an email at committee@pgdu.org if you have any questions.

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Program

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2026 has the most awesome program ever! See rock-star speakers cover the topics of

Ops and Administration

Achieving High Availability for PostgreSQL with Patroni, etcd and Barman by Eugene Bobkov

Migrating from Oracle Database to PostgreSQL by Venkata Ravi Kumar Yenugula

Beyond Alerts: Using PostgreSQL for Operational Log Analysis by Diksha Sharma

Postgres for AI: Agentic PostgreSQL Lifecycle Management by Ravi Kiran Venkata Bhaskarabhatta

PostgreSQL Features That Buy You a Fast Performance Win by Avinash Vallarapu

Development

Searchable Encryption with Postgres Types by Toby Hede

An OpenTelemetry API for PostgreSQL and its extensions by Craig Ringer

Fearless Extension Development with Rust and PGRX by James Blackwood-Sewell

Reparsing Postgres by James Sadler

When the Optimizer Guesses Wrong: A Reproducibility Lens on Cardinality Estimation by Alena Rybakina

Making pg_regress the Bar: Getting a Connection Pooler to 100% on PostgreSQL's Own Test Suite by Manan Gupta

Delta Frame of Reference Compression by Evgeny Voropaev

Essentials

PostgreSQL: An Unexpected Journey by Joe Conway

Postgres at Scale: Lessons from Running Multi-Terabyte Clusters by Sameer Kumar

New Publication Syntax and Sequence Synchronization in PostgreSQL 19 and Beyond by Peter Smith

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