# PostgresOpen 2018 - First look at talks

DevFeed: [PostgresOpen 2018 - First look at talks](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/postgresopen-2018-first-look-at-talks-41207.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.craigkerstiens.com/2018/06/27/postgresopen-talk-list/>)

Author: Map

Published: 2018-06-27T20:55:56Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [Craig Kerstiens](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/craig-kerstiens.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Databases](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/databases.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debug.md>), [data](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/data.md>)

Tags: [conference](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/conference.md>), [databases](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/databases.md>), [debugging](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/debugging.md>), [indexes](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/indexes.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [talks](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/talks.md>)

## AI overview

The article previews selected talks for PostgresOpen 2018, highlighting sessions on debugging the PostgreSQL planner, indexes, extension APIs, and connection pooling. It also mentions the conference dates, location, and early-bird tickets.

## Source excerpt

PostgresOpen is just a few months away and our list of talks is now live and available on the PostgresOpen website. This year selecting the talks was the hardest yet not only due to the number of talk submissions, but also the across the board high quality of submissions. There is hopefully something for everyone among the talks, at least if you like Postgres that is. If you're thinking about joining us I'd love to see you there and buy you a beer or coffee. The conference is September 5-7 in downtown San Francisco, and early bird tickets are open for just another few weeks. If you want to save some money on tickets grab it and the room now before things jump. But, if you're curious for a sampling of a few of the talks I thought I'd break down my top five I'm personally most excited about: Debugging the Postgres planner Okay, this one immediately caught my atttention. Melanie will start with the basics of an explain plan to progress down into an actual bug within the Postgres planner, how to can debug it in Postgres, and then write a patch for a fix herself. This talk is well beyond my depth as I'll likely never contribute code to the Postgres planner, but seems extremely entertaining and likely to highlight both performance profiling as well as useful debugging tips. Cleaning out Crocodiles teeth with PostgreSQL indexes I saw Louise give a super practical talk on undertanding explain this year in PgDay Paris. It was both valuable for application developers that aren't Postgres experts as well as surfaced knowledge for those that thought they already understood explain. I'm excited to hear her take on indexes, but maybe even more excited for the storytelling that will come along with this talk. A talk that can be put to a story always becomes a bit easier to follow the journey than simply the technical facts. How PostgreSQL extension APIs are changing the face of relational databases I've said it before personally that Postgres is becoming more of a data platform th