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Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Manni's manager is responsible for his participation in the program. He always assumed that he didn’t have the skills, but taught himself some x86 assembler and C in his spare time, and when it came to apply, she encouraged him to give it a shot.

Free and Open Source for Geospatial North America (FOSS4GNA) 2025 was running November 3-5th 2025 and I think it was one of the better FOSS4GNAs we've had. I was on the programming and workshop committees and we were worried with the government shutdown that things could go badly since we started getting people withdrawing their talks and workshops very close to curtain time.

Emma Sayoran organized a PUG Armenia speed networking meetup on December 25 2025.

FOSDEM PGDay 2026 Schedule announced on Dec 23 2025. Call for Paper Committee:

• Teresa Lopes
• Stefan Fercot
• Flavio Gurgel

Community Blog Posts:

• Chiira B. Mwangi I joined a community!

Recent changes in the software bundled in PgOSM Flex resulted in unexpected improvements when using OpenStreetMap roads data for routing. The short story: routing with PgOSM Flex 1.2.0 is faster, easier, and produces higher quality data for routing! I came to this conclusion after completing a variety of testing with the old and new versions of PgOSM Flex. This post outlines my testing and findings.

Graph databases have become increasingly popular for modeling complex relationships in data. But what if you could leverage graph capabilities within the familiar PostgreSQL environment you already know and love? In this article, I’ll explore how PostgreSQL can serve as a graph database using the Apache AGE extension, demonstrated through a fun use case: analyzing social connections in the craft beer community using Untappd data.

Introduction

I started contributing to PostgreSQL around 2020. This year I wanted to work harder, so I will explain the PostgreSQL features I developed and committed in 2025.

I also committed some other patches, but they were bug fixes or small document changes. Here I explain the ones that seem most useful.

These are mainly features in PostgreSQL 19, now in development. They may be reverted before the final release.