PostgreSQL Support in the Age of AI: Don’t Forget the Basics FOSSASIA Summit 2026

FOSSASIA Summit 2026 Sunday, 8 March, 2026 9:00 AM (Asia/Bangkok) To Tuesday, 10 March, 2026 7:30 PM (Asia/Bangkok)

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PostgreSQL Support in the Age of AI: Don’t Forget the BasicsIn today’s PostgreSQL environments, support teams are the unsung heroes, the first responders when production issues threaten SLAs, revenue, and customer trust. Their job is critical: keeping PostgreSQL stable under pressure. But troubleshooting isn’t simple. It often means juggling a mix of specialized tools, extensions, and system views for different problem areas like performance bottlenecks, replication lag, backup and restore failures, disk errors, out-of-memory crashes, and more.Each tool has its strengths but using them together introduces real challenges: constant context switching, inconsistent data formats, manual correlation, and steep learning curves for new engineers. The result? Longer time-to-resolution when every minute matters.As a community, we’ve invested heavily in advanced features by making PostgreSQL smarter, even AI driven, but often overlook the basics: a unified troubleshooting experience for the support engineers who keep systems alive.In this session, we’ll explore the tools PostgreSQL support teams rely on every day, share real world examples of where they shine and where they fall short, and highlight the operational pain points that slow down root cause analysis. Finally, we’ll consider a simple idea: what if there was a way to bring these insights together—not to replace trusted tools, but to provide a single, optional entry point that makes troubleshooting faster and less stressful?Understanding these challenges is key to building better tools and features. Developers shape the PostgreSQL ecosystem, and by recognizing the gaps in troubleshooting workflows, they can help create a more consolidated, integrated experience—one that reduces complexity, accelerates resolution, and improves customer trust.If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed by tool sprawl or wished for a more streamlined workflow, this session is for you