About us
Hey there! It’s great to have you on our page.
We’re a friendly group of PostgreSQL enthusiasts in and around London who meet every couple of months for a drink, a chat, and some good old Postgres talk.
Each meetup usually starts with a short talk to spark discussion, but anything in the PostgreSQL ecosystem is fair game — from performance tuning to migration stories (and everything in between).
Whether you’re a DBA, developer, or just curious about PostgreSQL — come join us! No fees, no formality, just great people and great conversations.
So if you’d like to see what the world’s most advanced open-source database holds for you, come along — and we’ll show you just how deep the rabbit hole goes. 🐘
Participation Policy
London PostgreSQL Meetup Group is dedicated to providing a safe, harassment-free and enjoyable meetup experience for everyone. Please be helpful, considerate, friendly, and respectful towards all other participants and venue staff.
We do not tolerate harassment of any members or organisers in any form. Imagery and language which promotes, supports, glorifies, or encourages acts of violence, harassment of any form, sexism or sexual misconduct, or hate speech, is not appropriate for any events including exhibition booths, talks and social events. Members violating these rules may be sanctioned or expelled from the meetup group and the events.
The meet-up abides by PostgreSQL Code of Conduct.
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Upcoming events
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Stopping Collations Going Wrong
The Stars of kings (Upstairs), 126 York Way Kings Cross N1 0AX, London, London, GBOn 23 June we will be gathering at the Star of Kings for some Postgres and a pint. This time we'll have a talk by Andreas Karlsson from Percona on Stopping Collations Going Wrong, followed by a brief recap from Alastair Turner (Percona) and Valeria Kaplan (Data Egret) on this year's PGConf.DEV, where the PostgreSQL community celebrated its 30th birthday.
We are a very informal bunch, so hoping to see you and your colleagues there!
We do need to know the numbers, so please register if you are planning on coming.WHERE
The Star of Kings on 23, June from 18:30.PROGRAMME
18:30 Welcome
19:00 Stopping Collations Going Wrong (Andreas Karlsson, Percona) - More below!
19:45 Food and bar snacks
20:00 Celebrating 30 Years of Postgres at PGConf.DEV (Alastair Turner, Percona & Valeria Kaplan, Data Egret)
20:30 It's a pub, so we'll stay and hang out a bit longer — but feel free to leave whenever you prefer!About The Talk
Stopping Collations Going Wrong
Outside of causing trouble for you when upgrading libc what are collations good for? PostgreSQL's collations have gotten a lot of bad press from the upgrade issues but they are also a powerful and important tool, especially for working with text in other languages than English.
This talk will give an introduction to collations in PostgreSQL, including how to use them, what they are useful for, how they work plus some common pitfalls and misunderstandings. You will learn, among other things, about the three collation providers (libc, icu, builtin), BCP 47, case insensitive collations, CTYPEs, what new features have been introduced in recent PostgreSQL versions and get a brief look into the future of collations in PostgreSQL.About The Speaker
Andreas Karlsson is application developer and long time minor contributor to PostgreSQL who recently has started working with PostgreSQL full time. Right now working for Percona with PostgreSQL itself and extensions, including pg_tde.
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