What I learned interviewing the PostgreSQL Community - Andreas Scherbaum

Описание: Since early 2020 I'm publishing weekly interviews with members of the PostgreSQL community. So far (April 2025) that's 194 interviews - with many more to come. And we all learned a lot from these!

https://postgresql.life/

Just to name a couple examples:
How many people in the community like sailing?
Should the name be "Postgres" or "PostgreSQL"?
How complicated is it to start using PostgreSQL?
What is the most annoying thing in our beloved database?
How can people start contributing to PostgreSQL?
What is the favorite PostgreSQL extension?
Which conferences are people visiting? And many more!

The interview answers show some commonalities, but also show very different aspects - as example how people treat their development environments. This talk looks at the answers in the interviews and summarizes what the members of the community think, like and dislike. Statistics and quotes will round up the talk.

Andreas Scherbaum has been working with PostgreSQL since 1997. He is involved in several PostgreSQL related community projects, member of the Board of Directors of the European PostgreSQL User Group and also wrote a PostgreSQL book (in German).

Since 2011 he was working for EMC/Greenplum/Pivotal and tackled very big databases. Until 2024 he was doing the same - but with maybe even more and bigger databases - for Adjust GmbH in Berlin.

Now he's working at EDB and helping customers with even larger databases.