Re: GSoC 2026: Call for Mentors, Project Ideas and Project Idea Reviews

Hey there!
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> Hi hackers,
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> We've been working on the PostgreSQL GSoC 2026 project ideas page and would love your input:
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> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2026
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> 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.
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> 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.

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> We've researched past GSoC wikis and added several core project ideas that could use expert review:
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> 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
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> 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
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> Also you can contact gsoc-mentors(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org if you'd like to get involved. Or we can just discuss things here.
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> Best regards, Andrey Borodin.

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