I was honoured to speak at the first PostgresEDI meetup in Edinburgh. The meetup took place in the Old College of the University Of Edinburgh, right in Edinburgh old town, a short walk from the Royal Mile.

Jimmy Angelakos did an amazing job organising the meetup, arranging the venue, getting pizza delivered, bringing drinks and ice along. A nice touch was having stickers for people to write their names on. There was a good turn out of people, with over 20 people showing up, a nice to see a range of attendees.

My talk PG Tricks aims to showcase a whole range of PostgreSQL features that I've made use of over the years to solve problems across various projects. It very much comes with the mindset of using PostgreSQL as much as possible within your application stack to simplify your overall application architecture (even if that means using more advanced features of PostgreSQL).

It's fair to say the talk focuses more on showing a range of possible things, rather than explaining every feature in detail. I think that talks are there to tell you what to research, rather than tell you everything about a topic.

Slides available here

It was nice to chat with some attendees about how they use similar approaches and patterns to what I showed. Always nice to realise your not stuck in your own little bubble.

After such a great first event, I hope the 2nd meetup on Feb 12th 2026 goes even better.