Bruce Momjian

Bruce Momjian is co-founder and core team member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Group, and has worked on PostgreSQL since 1996. He has been employed by EDB since 2006. He has spoken at many international open-source conferences and is the author of PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts, published by Addison-Wesley. Prior to his involvement with PostgreSQL, Bruce worked as a consultant, developing custom database applications for some of the world's largest law firms. As an academic, Bruce earned a Master's in Education and an honorary doctorate, taught high school computer science, and regularly lectures internationally.


Sessions

11-03
10:30
25min
Building Open Source Teams
Bruce Momjian

This presentation highlights the challenges of motivating and managing an open source team of volunteers. Topics include motivation, communication, and project management. This talk is useful for anyone active in open source.

Business of Open Source
Bondi
11-03
11:30
25min
Building an MCP Server Using Postgres
Bruce Momjian

Large language models are good at generating text, but can't easily report discrete, dynamic, and always-accurate results. This talk explains the purpose of MCPs, how they are used, and shows examples of database and non-database MCP servers.

Technical
Bondi
11-04
13:00
25min
Will Postgres Live Forever?
Bruce Momjian

This presentation explains how open source software can live for a very long time, and covers the differences between proprietary and open source software life cycles. It also covers the increased adoption of open source.

Business of Open Source
Bondi
11-04
15:00
25min
Can AI Write SQL?
Bruce Momjian

AI continues to amaze people, but where are its limits? How effectively can it generate sql queries? This talk uses mcp and a sample database to explore the effectiveness of generating select and dml queries from English specifications.

Technical
Tofanelli