Chris Ellis @intrbiz@bergamot.social

Maybe the B in JSONB stands for Beast? Boriss Mejias, @tchorix, (EDB) covers schema-design pitfalls, index strategies & TOAST tables for JSON/JSONB in PostgreSQL.

Join us for Livestream 1 to watch Boriss's talk on Tue 16 Jun https://posetteconf.com/2026/talks/json-in-postgresql-evil-data-type-or-just-needs-to-be-tamed/

#PosetteConf #PostgreSQL #Postgres #OpenSource #JSONB

Tomorrow, the London PostgreSQL Meetup Group will be presenting “Swapping the Elephant Without Breaking the Room: Zero-downtime Major PG Upgrades in Practice” with Anton Borisov and Vlad Bokov. This is an in-person event and the waitlist has been activated!

https://www.meetup.com/london-postgresql-meetup-group/events/313848775/?eventOrigin=network_page

#PostgreSQL #postgres

Gentle reminder that May 5 our #CfP closes. Get your proposals in for 45, 25 and 5 minute talks on anything #PostgreSQL (community): https://2026.pgday.nl/call-for-papers/

let's stop UK being part of Trump's war...
Please sign, and publicise.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994
#UKPolitics

Regulators and the tech press are sleeping on the web's power to unlock mobile computing the way it pried open the desktop. What started an oversight is now a crisis for the legitimacy of both institutions:

https://infrequently.org/2026/04/the-web-is-an-antitrust-wedge/

ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your React state

https://www.buchodi.com/chatgpt-wont-let-you-type-until-cloudflare-reads-your-react-state-i-decrypted-the-program-that-does-it/

#chatgpt #react

Sign the petition. Protect VPN use in the UK https://action.openrightsgroup.org/tell-government-protect-vpn-use-uk

Exactly 4 weeks from this moment we'll all be tucked up in bed ready for a nice early Saturday morning start of OggCamp. Definitely not still in the bar talking nonsense or anything...

Chris Ellis is teaching us many useful PosrgreSQL tricks!

#postgresql #database #helsinki

I have been invited to but turned down 3 conferences talks already this year because they're told me it's new policy to not cover speaker travel under the assumption that your tech employer will cover it. I own my own small business as a researcher and my wife is an academic teaching professor, so I cannot ask my household to absorb that. I just want to generally observe that we are filtering the voices we're going to be able to hear from, with all this contraction

Hello! We are Edinburgh Linux Cafe, joining Mastodon was something we meant to do for a while but never got around to. We are a small but dedicated group helping people to install Linux on their laptops. Our interests are Linux (obviously), repair, reuse, and bicycles. Amazing to see that we have actually been mentioned already (👋 @DoomsdaysCW )!

*laughs and laughs and laughs*

Are you going to @oggcamp this year? April 25-26 in Manchester (the original one in the UK).

https://www.oggcamp.org/

#Events #OpenSource #FreeCulture

PGDay Lowlands is back! We can't wait to see you all at the "second best PostgreSQL conference in Europe", September 10, at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht: https://2026.pgday.nl/

I am VERY tempted to write another long post about how the decision in the 1970s not to establish a Norway-style sovereign wealth fund in favour of simply using the oil money to prop up finances at the time, has done more damage to the UK than any other decision in history. LONG THREAD, SORRY.

We are thrilled to announce that the main stage schedule for OggCamp 2026 is now officially live.

More details here: https://www.oggcamp.org/posts/schedule/

Full main stage schedule here: https://talks.oggcamp.org/oggcamp-2026/schedule/

Mark your calendars! PGConf.EU 2026 will be held on October 20-23, 2026, in Valencia, Spain.

#pgconfeu #postgresql #database #valencia