From October 20-23, the global Postgres community will descend upon the beautiful Palacio de Congresos in Valencia, Spain, for PGConf EU. I compiled an overview of the sessions and community events EDB colleagues are running.

Canva redesigned session revocation infrastructure to support 100M active sessions while reducing database lookups. The architecture uses Amazon S3 for durable revocation records and distributes compact, in-memory indexes to application…
Partitioning gets sold as a performance switch. You flip it on a big table, and the slow queries get fast. Most of the time, that is exactly what happens. But there is a version of this where you do all the work, split a huge table into…
Every PostgreSQL connection since 8.0 has heard the server announce `integer_datetimes`—a parameter that's had only one possible value since PostgreSQL 10.