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This one goes out to all you #pgBackRest fans and contributors. Sing along 🎤🐘 Labelled unmaintained on April 27, saved by a coalition of sponsors, and one of the hottest topics at #PGConfEU this week 💛 percona.community/talks/2026…
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Thank you, #PGConfEU To everyone who came to @Percona talks and booth To our 23 Perconians To our 10 speakers who did an amazing job, including 3 on Community Day nurturing the community 0 fires started. A few mic drops perhaps 🎤 #pgBackRest #WeDidntStartTheFire 👀🔥
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And that’s not all 👀 Next stop: karaoke. Episodes of We Didn’t Start the Fire: PostgreSQL Edition coming soon #PGConfEU
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These slides are eating 🐐🔥 @RadoslawSzulgo from @Percona sharing more about Percona Search for MongoDB with the Data Community Poland group 🍃🇵🇱 Great to see it reaching local communities 💛
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30 years in, and it’s a full house for #Postgres again 🏠🐘 What keeps it going isn’t just the code. It’s the people who keep showing up, contributing, and caring deeply about where it’s headed. Here’s to many more 💛 @Percona #PGConfEU
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Spotted on a slide at #PGConfEU 👀 Our pg_oidc_validator featured by @sxd: open source doing what open source does 🐘 Everything is configured in pg_hba (hi, @dutow 👋) docs: docs.percona.com/postgresql/…
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♟️ Good morning from #PGConfEU! We’re starting the day with the winners of the chess tournament: 🥇 @mohitj18 🥈 Derk van Veen 🥉 @l_avrot Congrats to all three! 🐘
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Postgres on Kubernetes runs fine. Until the operator is part of the incident ☸️ Real cases, debugging K8s + operator + Postgres at once, and a checklist before trusting any operator in production. Natalia Marukovich Today 15:55 · SM1-A percona.community/talks/2026… #PGConfEU 🐘
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Operators are awesome 💛 BUT .. .. we run them in Kubernetes Practical advice by Natalia Marukovich
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Tips from Natalia Marukovich at #PGConfEU ☸️🐘 ✅ Use huge pages ✅ Monitor the Kubernetes API ✅ Size Postgres properly ✅ QoS matters: requests = limits on every container percona.community/talks/2026…
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If we have broken it several times before, why don't we just break it completely? @dutow at #PGconfEU
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A talk that starts with: I hope none of you will need this. Ever. Obvs is about corruptions 🍞. But, save it for the one time you might need it anyway 🔖 Derk van Veen at #PGConfEU 🐘
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Now, for some quotes from the history lesson about #postgres with @UpYourElly On the original code quality bar: “The priority was for the code to compile and sort of work.” #PgconfEU
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Curt’s old student ID photo
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Why does Postgres work the way it does? 🐘🐢 • Lisp was a trend • VACUUM was built so you could go back to last Tuesday • And humans made the calls, for their time Postgres Before PostgreSQL with Ellyne Phneah at #PGConfEU 🐘
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The turtle mascot, inherited from Ingres: “It is slow, but it gets there.”
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More news on #pg_hba: config poem for a F1 car at our booth! it's a good deal 🏎️ submit before 16:45
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