I’m genuinely excited about PGConf India 2026. Over the past few editions, the conference has continued to grow year over year—both in size and in impact—and it has firmly established itself as one of the key events on the global PostgreSQL calendar. That momentum was very evident again in the depth, breadth, and overall quality of the program for PGConf India 2026. Microsoft is proud to be a diamond sponsor for the conference again this year.
At Microsoft, we continue our contributions to the upstream PostgreSQL open-source project—as well as to serve our customers with our Postgres managed service offerings, both Azure Database for PostgreSQL and our newest Postgres offering, Azure HorizonDB . On the open-source front, Microsoft had 540 commits in PG18, including major features like Asynchronous IO. We’re also excited to grow our Postgres open-source contributors team, and so happy to welcome Noah Misch to our team. Noah is a Postgres committer who has deep expertise in PostgreSQL security and is focused on correctness and reliability in PostgreSQL’s core.
Microsoft at PGConf India 2026: Highlights from Our Speakers
PGConf India has several tracks, all of which have some great talks I am looking forward to. First, the plug. 😊 Microsoft has some amazing talks this year, and we have 8 different talks spread across all the tracks.
- Postgres on Azure : Scaling with Azure HorizonDB, AI, and Developer Workflows, by Aditya Duvuri & Divya Bhargov
- Resizing shared buffer pool in a running PostgreSQL server: important, yet impossible, by Ashutosh Bapat
- Ten Postgres Hacker Journeys—and what they teach us, by Claire Giordano
- How Postgres can leverage disk bandwidth for better TPS, by Nikhil Chawla
- AWSM FSM! Free Space Maps Decoded by Nikhil Sontakke
- Journey of developing a Performance Optimization Feature in PostgreSQL, by Rahila Syed
- Build Agentic AI with Semantic Kernel and Graph RAG on PostgreSQL, by Shriram Muthukrishnan & Palak Chaturvedi
- All things Postgres @ Microsoft (2026 edition) by Sumedh Pathak
Claire is an amazing speaker and has done a lot of work over the last several years documenting and understanding PostgreSQL committers and hackers. Her talk will definitely have some key insights and nuggets of information.
Rahila’s talk will go in depth on performance optimization features and how best to test and benchmark them, and all the tools and tricks she has used as part of the feature development. This should be a must-see talk for anyone doing performance work.
Diving Deep: Case Studies & Technical Tracks
One of the tracks I’m really excited about is the Case Study track. I see these as similar to ‘Experience’ papers in academia. An experience paper documents what actually happened when applying a technique or system in the real world, what worked, what didn’t, and why. One of the talks I’m looking forward to is ‘Operating Postgres Logical Replication at Massive Scale’ by Sai Srirampur from Clickhouse. Logical Replication is an extremely useful tool, and I’m curious to learn more about pitfalls and lessons learnt when running this at large scale. Another interesting one I’m curious to hear is ‘Understanding the importance of the commit log through a database corruption’ by Amit Kumar Singh from EDB.
The Database Engine Developers track allows us to go deep into the PostgreSQL code base and get a better understanding of how PostgreSQL is built. Even if you are not a database developer, this track is useful to understand how and why PostgreSQL does things, helping you be a better user of the database.
With the rise of larger machines and memory available in the Cloud, different and newer memory architectures/tiers and serverless product offerings, there is a lot of deep dive in PostgreSQL’s memory architecture. There are some great talks focused on this area, which should be must-see for anyone interested in this topic:
- Resizing shared buffer pool in a running PostgreSQL server: important, yet impossible by Ashutosh Bapat from Microsoft
- From Disk to Data: Exploring PostgreSQL's Buffer Management by Lalit Choudhary from PurnaBIT
- Beyond shared_buffers: On-Demand Memory in Modern PostgreSQL by Vaibhav Popat from Google
Finally, the Database Administration and Application Developer tracks have some really great content as well. They cover a wide range of topics, from PII data, HA/DR, Query Tuning to connection pooling and understanding conflict detection and resolution.
PostgreSQL in India: A Community Effort Worth Celebrating
Conferences like these are a rich source of information, dramatically increasing my personal understanding of the product and the ecosystem. Separately, they are also a great way to meet other practitioners in the space and connect with people in the industry. For people in Bangalore, another great option is the PostgreSQL Bangalore Meetup, and I’m super happy that Microsoft was able to join the ranks of other companies to host the eighth iteration of this meetup.
Finally, I would be remiss in not mentioning the hard work done by the PGConf India organizing team including Pavan Deolasse, Ashish Mehra, Nikhil Sontakke, Hari Kiran, and Rushabh Lathia who are making all of this happen. Also, a big shout out to the PGConf India Program Committee (Amul Sul, Dilip Kumar, Marc Linster, Thomas Munro, Vigneshwaran C) for putting together an amazing set of talks.
I look forward to meeting all of you in Bangalore! Be sure to drop by the Microsoft booth to say hello (and to snag a free pair of our famous socks). I’d love to learn more about how you’re using Postgres.
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