Álvaro Herrera
Employers on the program
- 2023–2026EDB6 talks
- 20252ndQuadrant2 talks
Appearances by year
- PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany)
- PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon)
- Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day (P2D2)
- PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | Table repacking, done right as EDB Date: 2026-05-20 Time: 11:30–11:55 Room: Fletcher (1900) Level: Intermediate | Slides |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | panelist | Unexpected successes & epic failures by PostgreSQL committers: A Roundtable as EDB Date: 2026-05-19 Time: 16:00–16:50 Room: Fletcher (1900) Level: Beginner | |
| Apr 21, 2026 | PGConf.DE 2026 | PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany) | sponsor keynote | The next 10 years of Postgres as EDB | |
| Oct 21, 2025 | PGConf.EU 2025 (15th PostgreSQL Conference Europe) | PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) | speaker | Table repacking, done right as 2ndQuadrant — an EDB company There's always been a need for a mechanism to get rid of table bloat. VACUUM FULL does that already, but it comes with a potentially long period during which…Show lessThere's always been a need for a mechanism to get rid of table bloat. VACUUM FULL does that already, but it comes with a potentially long period during which the table cannot be accessed or modified. | Slides |
| May 8, 2025 | PGConf.DE 2025 | PGConf.DE (PostgreSQL Conference Germany) | speaker | What is an SLRU anyway? as 2ndQuadrant — an EDB company | |
| Jan 28, 2025 | Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2025 | Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day (P2D2) | speaker | What is an SLRU anyway? as EDB An important performance optimization was added to Postgres 17, which changed the way SLRUs are managed and configured. But what are exactly these SLRUs? What…Show lessAn important performance optimization was added to Postgres 17, which changed the way SLRUs are managed and configured. But what are exactly these SLRUs? What do they store? What exactly was changed in Postgres 17? How do we now configure them? This talk goes over these questions in detail. | Slides |
| May 28, 2024 | PGConf.dev 2024 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | The road to new SQL/JSON features as EDB Date: 2024-05-29 Time: 09:00–09:50 Room: Sauder(2270) Level: Intermediate | SlidesVideo |
| Jan 31, 2023 | Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day 2023 | Prague PostgreSQL Developer Day (P2D2) | speaker | The MERGE command as EDB This talk explains the MERGE command: what it does, how it works, its performance, concurrency, other considerations. |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tomas Vondra | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Ants Aasma | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Bruce Momjian | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Dirk Krautschick | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Josef Machytka | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Claire Giordano | 3 | 1 | 2026 |
| Peter Eisentraut | 3 | 1 | 2026 |
| Andreas Scherbaum | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Andres Freund | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Chris Ellis | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Derk van Veen | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Devrim Gündüz | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Divya Sharma | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Hans-Jürgen Schönig | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Henrietta Dombrovskaya | 3 | — | 2026 |
Speakers with the same name are merged into one entry, so this page may combine more than one person. Affiliations are shown as each conference listed them.