PGDay Lowlands2024

We will publish the Wall of Testers, listing all the participants of this initiative, so that your contribution is visible.

Note that PGDay Lowlands already raffled a free ticket to the event (sponsored by Nexteam), a physical copy of the PostgreSQL 16 Administration Cookbook (sponsored by EDB), and a handmade elephant (donated by Karen Jex). We expect more initiative like this next year.

Download, install, test, report.

• Download and install PostgreSQL 17 RC1. See instructions at the PostgreSQL 17 RC1 page
• Test your own application trying to spot anything that doesn’t work. If you can compare performance of your application running on PostgreSQL 16 vs PostgreSQL 17 even better. Be as creative as you want with the test. That's the best way to find bugs.
• If you don’t have an application, you can create ad hoc tests to verify and study new functionality (partitioning, indexes, replication, etc), or run pgbench, HammerDB or any other generic tool.
• More ideas on testing can be found on the wiki
• Report your test by sending an email to team@pgday.nl using the format explained in the wiki. Reporting success is also a valid test. We are interested in knowing how confident we are in the new release, and sharing which applications are ready to upgrade can also be useful to other users.
  
  IMPORTANT: If you spot a bug or a performance issue, please send also an email to the psql-bugs or psql-hackers mailing lists, as specified on the wiki

If you report more than one test, you increase your chances in the raffles. The raffle entries are per each test.

The Wall of Testers will include all tests reported up to the official release of PostgreSQL 17, which expected on Septmeber 26, 2024

No elephants or tulips should be damaged during the testing process. Such a collateral effect will disqualify you from the Wall.