Postgres Conference 2026
Postgres Conference 2026 was held in San Jose, California, and once again, I was lucky to be invited to speak. This is a great show for the 'hallway track' where you talk to members of the community and discover many interesting things. I had a brief conversation with two early contributors to the original PostgreSQL project. One said he was surprised by how much of his code was still in the code base after FORTY YEARS. AI and MCP are fully interlaced in many projects. The one that struck me the most was PgEdge's AI DBA Workbench . It features three tiers of detection and an agentic AI assistant to watch it all. I was talking with CEO David Mitchell about it and told him about my past frustrations with Percona's PMM. He then told me author of the AI DBA Workbench also wrote PMM. And PgAdmin4. Observability seems to be the hot, underlying theme this year. Take a look at pg_collector . It is an SQL script that gathers valuable database information and consol...