Hey there! > > Hi hackers, > > We've been working on the PostgreSQL GSoC 2026 project ideas page and would > love your input: > > https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2026 > > As usual, GSoC is looking for volunteers ready to mentor projects. If any > project interests you and you'd be willing to guide a contributor through it, > please reach out. We especially need mentors with deep knowledge of the > optimizer, storage layer, and monitoring infrastructure. > > Have a project you've been wanting to see implemented? GSoC is a great > opportunity to mentor someone through it. Add your ideas to the wiki or > discuss them here or with the PostgreSQL GSoC org admins. The timeline is > tight - contributor applications open March 16 and close March 31. Students > will base their project proposals on ideas offered by this wiki page. Having > well-defined projects with committed mentors significantly improves proposal > quality.
Thanks Andrey! I just want to correct the dates. Ideas and potential mentors (sic!) should be published before the February 3 - Mentoring organization application deadline. This will increase Postgres Org chances for being accepted as a mentoring organization this year. The number of potential mentors is even more important that ideas itself, IMHO. > > We've researched past GSoC wikis and added several core project ideas that > could use expert review: > > 1) Existing ideas carried forward > Several project ideas were brought over from previous years' "Still Relevant > Ideas" lists. If you have expertise in these areas, please verify they're > still relevant and appropriately scoped: > * Join Removal Based on Foreign Key Constraints > * Parallel GiST Index Build > * Per-Datatype TOAST Slicing Strategies > * ALTER TABLE SET LOGGED/UNLOGGED Performance > * Global Temporary Tables > * Regression Test Coverage Improvements > * Autonomous Transactions > > 2) New proposals > * B-tree Index Bloat Reduction (Page Merge). That's a bit controversial as a > student work, we have serveral experimental ideas that need research. > * Monitoring Tools Performance (pg_stat_statements lock contention) > * Wait Event Coverage Improvements > > Also you can contact [email protected] if you'd like to get > involved. Or we can just discuss things here. > > > Best regards, Andrey Borodin. -- -- Hoc est vivere bis, vita posse priore frui. Nullus est in vitae sensus, ipsa vera est sensus.
