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Speakers

Simon Riggs

Employers on the program

  1. 2021–2023EDB4 talks
  2. 2019–20202ndQuadrant9 talks
Events9
Conferences6
Talks134 keynotes
Years active2019–2023
Miles between events31,0438 in-person events · 4 countries

Appearances by year

201920202021202220232024202520262027
  • PGConf India
  • PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)
  • PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)
  • FOSDEM
  • Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)
  • PostgresOpen

Talks

DateEventConferenceRoleTitleLinks
Dec 12, 2023PGConf.EU 2023 (13th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)keynoteThe Next 20 Years
as EDB

Postgres rules ok! What next?

Video
Sep 22, 2022PGConf NYC 2022PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)speakerThe MERGE Command
as EnterpriseDB
New in PostgresSQL 15, the MERGE command is part of the SQL Standard and allows INSERTs, UPDATEs and DELETEs to be applied to a target table. This talk provides…Show less

New in PostgresSQL 15, the MERGE command is part of the SQL Standard and allows INSERTs, UPDATEs and DELETEs to be applied to a target table. This talk provides a basic overview of MERGE, with examples, then covers all the more advanced topics including optimization and triggers.

Dec 2, 2021PGConf NYC 2021PGConf NYC (Postgres Summit US from 2026)speakerUnderstanding and Reducing Application Contention
as EnterpriseDB
Database Lock Waits, Deadlocks and Serializable ERRORs lurk in wait for the unwary application developer. This talk explains what they are, how to spot they are…Show less

Database Lock Waits, Deadlocks and Serializable ERRORs lurk in wait for the unwary application developer. This talk explains what they are, how to spot they are causing problems and how to reduce them.

Feb 6, 2021FOSDEM 2021FOSDEMspeakerPostgreSQL and The SQL Standard
as EDB

PostgreSQL follows the SQL Standard. What's that mean?

Video
Feb 26, 2020PGConf India 2020PGConf IndiaspeakerSchema Change and Schemaless
as 2ndQuadrant

How does PostgreSQL cope with schema change on production databases? What functions are available and how do we use them?

Video
Oct 15, 2019PGConf.EU 2019 (11th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)sponsored talkBDR - AlwaysOn Multi-Master Clusters for Distributed PostgreSQL
as 2ndQuadrant
Introduction to Postgres-BDR Postgres-BDR Architecture High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Rolling Upgrades, Latency and Geographical Distribution with…Show less

Introduction to Postgres-BDR Postgres-BDR Architecture High Availability, Disaster Recovery, Rolling Upgrades, Latency and Geographical Distribution with Postgres-BDR Common use cases for Postgres-BDR Making applications compliant with Postgres-BDR

Slides
Oct 15, 2019PGConf.EU 2019 (11th PostgreSQL Conference Europe)PostgreSQL Conference Europe (PGConf.EU)sponsor keynoteGrowing the PostgreSQL Community
as 2ndQuadrant

How far has the open source PostgreSQL Community grown? How much farther can it grow?

Slides
Sep 11, 2019PostgresOpen 2019PostgresOpenspeakerPostgreSQL Partitioning
as 2ndQuadrant

Partitioning is one of the key features for sensible management and improved performance with very large databases (VLDB).

Mar 18, 2019Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019)Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speakerEssential PostgreSQL11 Database Administration
as 2ndQuadrant
Update your PostgreSQL DBA knowledge to the latest version with this fast-paced training, showing how some important topics have changed over the last few…Show less

Update your PostgreSQL DBA knowledge to the latest version with this fast-paced training, showing how some important topics have changed over the last few releases.

Mar 18, 2019Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019)Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)keynoteKeynote: PostgreSQL, the Hyperconverged database
as 2ndQuadrant
Keynote for PgConf.US, as a result of being a Sponsor: Simon describes the ways in which PostgreSQL is capable of many use cases, catering for many different…Show less

Keynote for PgConf.US, as a result of being a Sponsor: Simon describes the ways in which PostgreSQL is capable of many use cases, catering for many different kinds of data model and data handling.

Mar 18, 2019Postgres Conference 2019 (PostgresConf US 2019)Postgres Conference (PostgresConf)speakerPostgres for the Financial Industry
as 2ndQuadrant
Covers the essential tools and utilities required by Financial Industry professionals. * High Availability (with and without BDR) * Online upgrades * Auditing &…Show less

Covers the essential tools and utilities required by Financial Industry professionals. * High Availability (with and without BDR) * Online upgrades * Auditing & Certification * PCI-Compliant Security * Client tools and Monitoring * Performance tooling Covers both core PostgreSQL and 2ndQuadrant products and services.

Feb 13, 2019PGConf India 2019PGConf IndiaspeakerPartitioning & Time Series
as 2ndQuadrant
PostgreSQL Partitioning has been through many different versions. Declarative partitioning in PG10 has many enhancements and some very subtle performance…Show less

PostgreSQL Partitioning has been through many different versions. Declarative partitioning in PG10 has many enhancements and some very subtle performance effects and changes.

Slides
Feb 13, 2019PGConf India 2019PGConf IndiakeynotePostgreSQL: The Hyperconverged DBMS
as 2ndQuadrant
PostgreSQL contains everything you need for managing application data. Review all of the different aspects of PostgreSQL data management, including GIS, full…Show less

PostgreSQL contains everything you need for managing application data. Review all of the different aspects of PostgreSQL data management, including GIS, full text, graph, document storage, time series and of course relational.

Slides

Frequent co-speakers

SpeakerShared eventsShared talksLast together
Lætitia AVROT6—2023
Andreas Scherbaum5—2023
Magnus Hagander5—2023
Christophe Pettus4—2023
Claire Giordano4—2023
Henrietta Dombrovskaya4—2023
Jonathan S. Katz4—2023
Pavlo Golub4—2023
Peter Eisentraut4—2023
Robert Haas4—2023
Bruce Momjian4—2022
Dr. Ibrar Ahmed4—2022
Renee Huinker4—2022
Oleg Bartunov4—2021
Avinash Vallarapu4—2020

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.