Becoming a Postgres committer with Melanie Plageman

Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano

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If you could work on anything, would you quit your job to pursue it? Postgres committer and major contributor Melanie Plageman joined Claire Giordano on this episode of the Talking Postgres podcast (formerly Path To Citus Con) to share her story about becoming a Postgres committer. Melanie pivoted from IT consulting to open-source development, driven by her fascination with systems engineering and Postgres open source. What’s the secret to getting your patch committed? Feedback is a gift, but how willing are you to embrace it? How important is mentorship—and how important is it to ask for help? Even though crafting clear, concise emails to a technical community might not be easy, Melanie shows how empathy for other Postgres developers can help your work to stand out.

Links discussed in this episode

Pgsql-hackers mailing list: Announcement about new Postgres committers
Conference: PGConf.dev 2025
Blog: Talk, then code by Dave Cheny
Blog posts about mentoring by Robert Haas
Blog: Mentoring Program Updates by Robert Haas
X: Brendan Burn’s tweet about the Kubernetes Chop Wood and Carry Water award
Award: Chop Wood Carry Water
Blog: Who Contributed to PostgreSQL Development in 2023? by Robert Haas
Abstract: What's in a Postgres major release? An analysis of contributions in the v17 timeframe for PGConfEU 2024 by Claire Giordano
Talking Postgres Ep18: How I got started as a developer (& in Postgres) with David Rowley
Wikipedia: PostgreSQL Contributor Gifts
Cal invite for next Ep 20 of Talking Postgres with Tom Lane to be recorded LIVE on Wed Oct 9, 2024

Podcasts & conference videos that Melanie listens to when running that she recommends to Postgres developers:

Podcast: Oxide and Friends
Podcast: postgres.fm
Podcast: Software Engineering Radio
Podcast: Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano
Podcast: Two’s Complement
SE Radio: Ep 432: Brian D Foy on Perl 7
Video: Memory & Caches by Matt Godbolt
Videos: POSETTE 2024 playlist
Video: RailsConf 2014 - All the Little Things by Sandi Metz
YouTube: Brandon Foltz
YouTube: CMU Database Group
YouTube: Kernel Recipes
YouTube: Linux Plumbers Conference
YouTube: Matt Godbolt
YouTube: Onur Mutlu Lectures
YouTube: pganalyze
YouTube: PostgreSQL Development Conference
YouTube: SNIAVideo
YouTube: Strange Loop Conference
YouTube: The Linux Foundation