CERN PGDay 2026

Friday, February 6, 2026 - 9:30 AM
CERN (503/1-001)

        : Sessions
    /     : Talks
        : Breaks
Feb 6, 2026
AM
9:30 AM --- Welcome coffee ---
10:00 AM Opening - Markus Wanner Maurizio De Giorgi (CERN)  
10:05 AM A new PostgreSQL backend for CERN Tape Archive scheduling for LHC Run 4 - Dr Jaroslav Guenther (CERN) Konstantina Skovola  
10:35 AM DCS Data Tools - PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB Implementation for ATLAS DCS Time-Series Data - Dimitrios Matakias (CERN) Paris Moschovakos  
11:05 AM --- Break ---
11:15 AM Operational hazards of managing PostgreSQL DBs over 100TB - Teresa Lopes (Adyen)  
PM
12:00 PM --- Lunch break ---
1:15 PM Vacuuming Large Tables: How Recent Postgres Changes Further Enable Mission Critical Workloads - Robert Treat  
2:00 PM --- Break ---
2:10 PM The (very practical) Postgres Sharding Landscape - Álvaro Hernández  
2:55 PM --- Coffee break ---
3:25 PM The Alchemy of Shared Buffers: Balancing Concurrency and Performance - Josef Machytka  
4:10 PM --- Break ---
4:20 PM Incremental Backup with PostgreSQL17 - Ms Marion Baumgartner  
5:05 PM Closing - Maurizio De Giorgi (CERN) Markus Wanner  
5:20 PM --- Social event ---