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PostgreSQL

The Most Advanced Open Source Relational Database

PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system with over 30 years of active development that has earned it a strong reputation for reliability, feature robustness, and performance.

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Project ideas

7 ideas on its 2026 ideas page; of the 7 that state a difficulty: 3 medium, 4 hard. Sizes: 7 large. 8 mentors named.

pgagroal: Advanced security large hard
pgmoneta: Model Context Server implementation large medium
pgmoneta: Write-Ahead Log (WAL) & Model Context Server (MCP) large medium
pgmoneta: Storage engines large hard
pgexporter: Historic data large medium
B-tree Index Bloat Reduction (Page Merge) large hard
Monitoring Tools Performance: pgstatstatements and LWLock Contention large hard

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2017, 10 years. Projects per year: '17: 4, '18: 3, '19: 4, '20: 3, '21: 6, '22: 7, '23: 12, '24: 5, '25: 7, '26: 7.

On GitHub

No GitHub organization found in its official listing.

Links and channels

Website: https://postgresql.org
Ideas page: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC_2026
Contributor guide: https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/GSoC
Source code: https://git.postgresql.org/gitweb/?p=postgresql.git;a=summary
Mailing list: pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org
Chat: https://www.postgresql.org/community/irc/
Chat: http://pgtreats.info/slack-invite

go deeper in your terminal

git-into-gsoc org "PostgreSQL" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "PostgreSQL"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "PostgreSQL"

or ask your assistant:
"Which PostgreSQL repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.