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PostgreSQL Istanbul Meetup - November 2026 Edition

📅 November 12, 2026 · 18:00 – 20:00
📍 Levent Mah. Aydın Sok No: 7 Levent Istanbul Map ↗
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About the meetup

In this meetup we again have a great lineup:

* Devrim Gündüz (EDB)
* Nazır Bilal Yavuz (Microsoft)

Talks will be in English/Turkish.

Talks

01

Know the less known - A PostgreSQL Glossary

When you start using PostgreSQL, you start hearing some words: LSN, relfrozenxid, cluster, ctid, cmin, cmax, multixactid, age, datfrozenxid, etc. Have you ever wondered what they are, what they are used for, and how to take care of them? In this talk, I'll give details of these less known things in PostgreSQL.

Devrim Gündüz
Devrim Gündüz

Devrim Gündüz is a long-time PostgreSQL, Red Hat, Fedora contributor, and also working on some more open source projects. He is responsible for the PostgreSQL YUM and ZYPP repositories for RPM based distributions. His career started as a system administrator, and now he is working as PostgreSQL expert at EnterpriseDB. Lives in London, UK.

⏱ 45 min
02

My Journey into PostgreSQL Development

In this talk, I will share my journey from first-time contributor to active PostgreSQL developer. Based on my experience, I will share concrete lessons learned and actionable advice for developers who want to start contributing or become more effective PostgreSQL contributors. The main points of this talk would be: How I started working on PostgreSQL. My experience of getting used to PostgreSQL culture. The challenges I faced, how I overcame them and what helped. What I would do differently if I had the experience I have now.

Nazır Bilal Yavuz
Nazır Bilal Yavuz

Nazir Bilal Yavuz is a software engineer at Microsoft’s PostgreSQL Open Source team and he is a PostgreSQL contributor. Since joining Microsoft, he has focused on core PostgreSQL development, with interests in performance optimization, continuous integration, and build systems.

⏱ 45 min