Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano
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Talking Postgres is a podcast for developers who love Postgres. Guests join Claire Giordano each month to discuss the human side of PostgreSQL, databases, and open source. With amazing guests such as Boriss Mejías, Melanie Plageman, Tom Lane, Simon Willison, Robert Haas, and Andres Freund, Talking Postgres is guaranteed to get you thinking. Recorded live on Discord by the Postgres team at Microsoft, you can subscribe to our calendar to join us live on the parallel text chat (which is quite fun!): https://aka.ms/TalkingPostgres-cal
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25 years of contributing to Postgres with Peter Eisentraut
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18 Sep 2026
How does a fix for psql tab completion turn into 25 years of contributing to Postgres? In Episode 43 of Talking Postgres, Peter Eisentraut (https://www.linkedin.com/in/petereisentraut/)—PostgreSQL
How AI is changing software development with Simon Willison
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14 Aug 2026
What’s your gold standard for deciding whether AI-written code is ready for production? In Episode 42 of Talking Postgres, Simon Willison (https://simonwillison.net/)—creator of Datasette,
Working on Postgres after 13 years on SQL Server with Panagiotis Antonopoulos
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17 Jul 2026
What happens when a database engineer spends 13 years on SQL Server and then starts working on Postgres? In Episode 41 of Talking Postgres, Distinguished Engineer Panagiotis “Panos” Antonopoulos
How I got started running a Postgres user group with Jeremy Schneider
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12 Jun 2026
Intensely local user groups have been part of Jeremy Schneider's story from the start—from Linux meetups at a Michigan coffee shop to a closet server running an Oracle database nobody knew anything
From MemSQL to HorizonDB, an engineer's journey with Adam Prout
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8 May 2026
What does it take to make Postgres and Azure fit together cleanly, like puzzle pieces? In Episode 39 of Talking Postgres, Adam Prout (https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-prout-0b347630/)—distinguished
How I went from Oracle to Postgres (with a big NoSQL detour) with Gwen Shapira
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10 Apr 2026
It’s rare for developers to genuinely love their database, so why does Postgres earn that kind of loyalty? In Episode 38 of Talking Postgres, Gwen Shapira
Building Postgres services on Azure with Charles Feddersen
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20 Mar 2026
Why does SQL feel so approachable to some developers, and why do some of them end up spending their careers in the data layer? In Episode 37 of Talking Postgres, Charles Feddersen
Why it's fun to hack on Postgres performance with Tomas Vondra
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20 Feb 2026
Why would anyone willingly spend weeks chasing a slow query, knowing they might hit dead ends along the way? In Episode 36 of Talking Postgres, Tomas Vondra (https://fosstodon.org/@tomasv)—Postgres
How I got started with DBtune (& why we chose Postgres) with Luigi Nardi
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16 Jan 2026
Are self-driving databases the Waymos of the future? In Episode 35 of Talking Postgres, Luigi Nardi (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nardiluigi/)—founder and CEO of DBtune and Stanford
What Postgres developers can expect from PGConf.dev with Melanie Plageman
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12 Dec 2025
What do conference planning, hacking weddings, and cat-free coding sessions have to do with Postgres? In Episode 34 of Talking Postgres, Melanie Plageman
Building a dev experience for Postgres in VS Code with Rob Emanuele
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7 Nov 2025
What do guitar busking, geospatial queries, and agentic coding have to do with Postgres? In Episode 33 of Talking Postgres, principal engineer Rob Emanuele
The Fundamental Interconnectedness of All Things with Boriss Mejías
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10 Oct 2025
What do chess clocks, jazz, and Postgres replication have in common? In Episode 32 of Talking Postgres, solution architect Boriss Mejías (https://www.linkedin.com/in/boriss-mej%C3%ADas-4637401/)
What went wrong (& what went right) with AIO with Andres Freund
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19 Sep 2025
Six years, a prototype, and a brief multi-layered descent into “wronger and wronger” design—what does it take to land a major architectural change in Postgres? In Episode 31 of Talking
Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano – Trailer
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15 Aug 2025
Why do Postgres developers, contributors, and users do what they do? In each episode of Talking Postgres, Claire Giordano talks to people from across the Postgres ecosystem—how they got started,
AI for data engineers with Simon Willison
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8 Aug 2025
It’s always a good day if you see a pelican. In Episode 30 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano (https://bsky.app/profile/clairegiordano.bsky.social), open source developer Simon Willison
How I got started leading database teams with Shireesh Thota
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11 Jul 2025
From dreaming of driving a bus to leading database engineering at Microsoft. In Episode 29 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireg/), Shireesh Thota
12 years of Postgres Weekly with Peter Cooper
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20 Jun 2025
What drives someone to publish 600+ issues of a Postgres newsletter for over a decade? In Episode 28 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireg/), Peter Cooper
How I got started with FerretDB (& why we chose Postgres) with Peter Farkas
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9 May 2025
How does a trek to K2 base camp in the Himalayas spark the idea for a database company? In Episode 27 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano (https://bsky.app/profile/clairegiordano.bsky.social),
Open Source Leadership with Bruce Momjian
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4 Apr 2025
What does it take to lead a global open source project like Postgres? In Episode 26 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano (https://www.linkedin.com/in/claireg/), we sit down with Bruce Momjian
Why Python developers just use Postgres with Dawn Wages
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14 Mar 2025
When I found out that Django developer and Python Software Foundation chair Dawn Wages (https://hachyderm.io/@BajoranEngineer@mastodon.online) has a chapter in her upcoming Domain-Driven Django book
Why mentor Postgres developers with Robert Haas
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7 Feb 2025
Nobody works on an open-source project forever—eventually, people move on. So of course today's Postgres contributors want to see more developers join the project, pick up the torch, and continue
How I got started as a developer & in Postgres with Daniel Gustafsson
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17 Jan 2025
March 5th 2005 at 3 PM in Copenhagen. That’s the exact time and place Daniel Gustafsson’s career took an unexpected turn, pivoting from operating systems to databases. At LinuxForum that day,
Leading engineering for Postgres on Azure with Affan Dar
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6 Dec 2024
What’s it like to lead Postgres engineering at a cloud giant like Microsoft Azure? In this episode of Talking Postgres, host Claire Giordano (https://bsky.app/profile/clairegiordano.bsky.social)
Helping Rails developers learn Postgres with Andrew Atkinson
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15 Nov 2024
Have you ever achieved something remarkable because someone planted an idea in your mind? In this episode of Talking Postgres, host Claire Giordano
How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with Tom Lane
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11 Oct 2024
It was not Tom Lane’s plan to become a computer person. Tom’s plan was to be a pinball machine designer. And yet for the last 26 years Tom has been one of the most prolific engineering
Becoming a Postgres committer with Melanie Plageman
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20 Sep 2024
If you could work on anything, would you quit your job to pursue it? Postgres committer and major contributor Melanie Plageman (https://www.linkedin.com/in/melanieplageman/) joined Claire Giordano
How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with David Rowley
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9 Aug 2024
Ever wonder how driving a forklift at a cheese factory could lead to a career in databases? Postgres committer David Rowley (https://x.com/davidrowley_pg) joined Claire Giordano
Podcasting about Postgres with Pino de Candia
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12 Jul 2024
Have you ever eavesdropped on other people’s conversations? Former co-host Pino de Candia
The Making of POSETTE: An Event for Postgres with Teresa Giacomini & Aaron Wislang
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21 Jun 2024
It’s not a conference unless you can confer, right? POSETTE organizers Teresa Giacomini (https://x.com/tgcmn) and Aaron Wislang (https://www.threads.net/@aaronw.dev) join Claire Giordano
My Journey to Explaining Explain with Michael Christofides
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3 May 2024
Did you know that sometimes the fastest way of doing something is not having to do it at all? In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, the podcast for developers who love Postgres, Michael Christofides
Becoming expert at using PostgreSQL with Chris Ellis
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5 Apr 2024
You have to find what works for you and Chris Ellis has never been the kind of person that could go and sit in a library—for Chris, the most productive Postgres place is in a coffee shop. In this
Spinning up on Postgres & AI with Arda Aytekin
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8 Mar 2024
Everywhere you look, people are talking about AI. From Copilot to ChatGPT to Postgres’s powerful AI capabilities (think: pgvector), AI is everywhere. In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, for
From developer to PostgreSQL specialist with Derk van Veen
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9 Feb 2024
The best days are when things don’t go as planned. Derk van Veen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/derk-van-veen-database-specialist/) joined Claire Giordano (https://hachyderm.io/@clairegiordano) and
My Journey into Performance Benchmarking with Jelte Fennema-Nio & Marco Slot
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12 Jan 2024
No one likes benchmarking. But it can be one of the highest impact things you do. Jelte Fennema-Nio (https://twitter.com/JelteF) and Marco Slot (https://twitter.com/marcoslot) joined Claire Giordano
My Journey into Postgres Monitoring with Lukas Fittl & Rob Treat
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8 Dec 2023
Do you monitor your Postgres error logs for gold? Lukas Fittl (https://mastodon.social/@lukas@hachyderm.io) and Rob Treat (https://twitter.com/robtreat2) join Claire Giordano
Solving every data problem in SQL w/Dimitri Fontaine & Vik Fearing
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3 Nov 2023
Is being lazy a good reason to learn SQL? Dimitri Fontaine (https://tapoueh.org/) and Vik Fearing (https://twitter.com/pg_xocolatl) join Claire Giordano (https://hachyderm.io/@clairegiordano) and
How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with Andres Freund & Heikki Linnakangas
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13 Oct 2023
Lots of stories of how folks got started as developers! Andres Freund (https://twitter.com/AndresFreundTec) and Heikki Linnakangas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/heikki-linnakangas-6b58bb203/) join
Why people care about PostGIS and Postgres with Paul Ramsey & Regina Obe
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8 Sep 2023
The geospatial world of Postgres is so much more than mapping. Paul Ramsey (https://twitter.com/pwramsey) and Regina Obe (https://twitter.com/reginaobe/) join Claire Giordano
You're probably already using Postgres: What you need to know with Chelsea Dole & Floor Drees
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11 Aug 2023
Drop the fear, not the tables. Chelsea Dole (https://www.linkedin.com/in/chelsea-dole/) and Floor Drees (https://twitter.com/DevOpsBarbie) join Claire Giordano (https://hachyderm.io/@clairegiordano)
My favorite ways to learn more about PostgreSQL with Grant Fritchey & Ryan Booz
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14 Jul 2023
Everyone learns differently. Grant Fritchey (https://twitter.com/GFritchey) and Ryan Booz (https://twitter.com/ryanbooz), database advocates at Redgate focusing on PostgreSQL, talk with Path To Citus
How I got started as a dev and in Postgres with Melanie Plageman & Thomas Munro
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6 Jul 2023
In this episode of Path To Citus Con*, Melanie Plageman (https://twitter.com/melanieplageman), a PostgreSQL hacker working at Microsoft, and Thomas Munro (https://twitter.com/MengTangmu), PostgreSQL
Why give talks at Postgres conferences with Álvaro Herrera & Boriss Mejías
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6 Jul 2023
Álvaro Herrera, (https://twitter.com/alvherre) and Boriss Mejías (https://twitter.com/tchorix), both longtime members of the Postgres developer community, explore the value of giving conference
