What can Postgres learn from DuckDB?

Presented by Jelte Fennema-Nio at PGConf.dev 2025 DuckDB an open source SQL analytics engine that is quickly growing in popularity. There are three main reasons for this: It is very fast at analytics workloads It is extremely extensible It has made some nice improvements to its SQL syntax This begs the question: What can Postgres learn from DuckDB? In this talk I’ll discuss how Postgres could learn from some of the things that DuckDB did differently. https://www.pgevents.ca/events/pgconfdev2025/schedule/session/318-what-can-postgres-learn-from-duckdb/