David E. Wheeler
Employers on the program
- 2024–2026ClickHouse13 talks
- 2023The New York Times1 talk
Appearances by year
- PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon)
- PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
Talks
| Date | Event | Conference | Role | Title | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 20, 2026 | PGConf.EU 2026 (16th PostgreSQL Conference Europe) | PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) | speaker | How to Contribute to the PostgreSQL Documentation as ClickHouse Have you ever struggled to figure out how something in Postgres works, or why it is the way it is? Maybe you found a few relevant references in the…Show lessHave you ever struggled to figure out how something in Postgres works, or why it is the way it is? Maybe you found a few relevant references in the documentation; more likely you spent some time experimenting and asking questions until your understanding was complete and your curiosity was satisfied. | Slides |
| Oct 20, 2026 | PGConf.EU 2026 (16th PostgreSQL Conference Europe) | PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU) | speaker | The Pushdown: Building a Foreign Data Wrapper as ClickHouse Postgres has provided an API to build "foreign data wrappers" — extensions that allow queries to execute on external servers — since version 9.3 back in 2011. A…Show lessPostgres has provided an API to build "foreign data wrappers" — extensions that allow queries to execute on external servers — since version 9.3 back in 2011. A robust collection of "FDWs", as they're commonly called, has developed in the years since, while the API itself has greatly expanded and added features, particularly the ability to "pushdown" execution to the external data source. | Slides |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | Building a Foreign Data Wrapper as ClickHouse Date: 2026-05-21 Time: 14:00–14:50 Room: Canfor (1600) Level: Intermediate | Slides |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | Extending Authorisation and Authentication as ClickHouse Date: 2026-05-19 Time: 10:30–11:20 Room: Canfor (1600) Level: Intermediate | |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | Extension Summit open discussion readout as ClickHouse Date: 2026-05-19 Time: 16:00–16:50 Room: Canfor (1600) Level: Intermediate | |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | Extensions and upgrades as ClickHouse Date: 2026-05-19 Time: 11:30–12:20 Room: Canfor (1600) Level: Intermediate | Slides |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | Hooks and APIs: What to expose in the core as ClickHouse Date: 2026-05-19 Time: 13:30–14:20 Room: Canfor (1600) Level: Intermediate | |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | How immutability challenges extension packaging and distribution as ClickHouse Date: 2026-05-19 Time: 09:00–09:50 Room: Canfor (1600) Level: Intermediate | Slides |
| May 19, 2026 | PGConf.dev 2026 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | To extend, to contribute, or to petition to core? as ClickHouse Date: 2026-05-19 Time: 14:30–15:20 Room: Canfor (1600) Level: Intermediate | |
| May 13, 2025 | PGConf.dev 2025 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | Adventures in Extension Packaging as ClickHouse Date: 2025-05-14 Time: 10:00–10:50 Room: Cartier A Level: Intermediate | Slides |
| May 13, 2025 | PGConf.dev 2025 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | Extension Ecosystem Summit as ClickHouse Date: 2025-05-13 Time: 08:30–12:30 Room: Cartier B Level: Intermediate | Slides |
| May 28, 2024 | PGConf.dev 2024 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | discussion lead | Extension Ecosystem Summit (Registration required) as ClickHouse Date: 2024-05-28 Time: 14:00–17:00 Room: Cominco(1415) Level: Intermediate | Slides |
| May 28, 2024 | PGConf.dev 2024 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | The future of the extension ecosystem as ClickHouse Date: 2024-05-30 Time: 11:30–12:20 Room: Canfor(1600) Level: Intermediate | Video |
| May 30, 2023 | PGCon 2023 | PGConf.dev (formerly PGCon) | speaker | A Pattern for a Searchable, Encrypted JSON Document Service as The New York Times Date: 2023-05-31 Time: 11:00–11:45 Room: DMS 1160 Level: Intermediate | Slides |
Frequent co-speakers
| Speaker | Shared events | Shared talks | Last together |
|---|---|---|---|
| Melanie Plageman | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Thomas Munro | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Tomas Vondra | 5 | — | 2026 |
| Andres Freund | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Andrey Borodin | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Claire Giordano | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Lukas Fittl | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Michael Paquier | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Robert Haas | 4 | — | 2026 |
| Floor Drees | 3 | 7 | 2026 |
| Yurii Rashkovskii | 3 | 7 | 2026 |
| Alastair Turner | 3 | 6 | 2026 |
| Devrim Gündüz | 3 | 1 | 2026 |
| Alena Rybakina | 3 | — | 2026 |
| Amit Kapila | 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.