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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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Jack Bonatakis built #pginbox. @ImTheKai & @dutow built #Hackorum. One call, one decision, and the crew assembled ⚡️
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What happened next? And what's coming next? 👇
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#Patroni was packed at #PGConfEU 🐘 HA for Postgres, well explained by @cyberdemn and @hugh_capet. @Percona's distribution of Postgres includes Patroni for HA 💡
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