PGNexus Daily News #256 2026-09-01
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: Neon is now available in Grok Bot]
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Dominik Koch
Neon is now available in Grok Bot
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Neon, the serverless PostgreSQL platform, is now available as a plugin in
Grok Bot. Users can connect their Neon account once to enable the
integration, after which they can inter…
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[image: Enterprise PostgreSQL Support: What mission-critical operations
require]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Fujitsu
Enterprise PostgreSQL Support: What mission-critical operations require
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Enterprise PostgreSQL support is often assessed during stable operations,
when procurement teams compare contracts, SLAs, and response times.
However, the true value of such suppo…
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[image: Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
Ajay Kulkarni
Why a 40-Year-Old Database Is Still Winning in the AI Era
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PostgreSQL, now 40 years old, continues to dominate even as AI reshapes
software development. Industry analysts and engineers attribute this to its
foundational strengths: transac…
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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster
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Alexander Lakhin confirmed that a previously proposed fix (adding a wait)
resolves both test reliability issues he had observed in the "changing data
checksums in a running cluste…
Read Discussion
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right() returns the whole string for the most negative n
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A bug was reported where the `right()` string function returns the whole
string when passed the most negative 32-bit integer (`PG_INT32_MIN`) as the
argument `n`. The fix involves…
Read Discussion
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Routed ON CONFLICT inserts broken by partition-local deferrable unique
constraints in 19 and master
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Routed%20ON%20CONFLICT%20inse…>
The thread discusses two related regressions in PostgreSQL 19 affecting `ON
CONFLICT` inserts. The primary issue involves routed inserts into
partitioned tables failing when parti…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Routed%20ON%20CONFLICT%20inse…>
Add starelid, attnum to pg_stats and leverage this in pg_dump
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20starelid%2C%20attnum%20…>
A patch restoring a previously removed filter clause in the pg_stats area
was committed. The clause had been dropped as part of an earlier commit
(4b5ba0c4ca52), but its absence c…
Read Discussion
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Two issues leading to discrepancies in FSM data on the standby server
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Noah Misch argues that commit c06d1a4 is incorrect. With checksums and
full-page writes enabled, the commit allows FSM pages to be dirtied via
`heap_xlog_*` during recovery after…
Read Discussion
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timeout value overflow in wait for lsn
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The thread discusses a timeout value overflow issue in the `WAIT FOR LSN`
feature. A key question is whether to use `parse_int()` for timeout parsing
(consistent with existing int…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=timeout%20value%20overflow%20…>
Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
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Industry News
[image: Anthropic's New Fable 5.1 Model Release: Cheaper and Less
Restrictive]
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic's New Fable 5.1 Model Release: Cheaper and Less Restrictive
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Anthropic has released Fable 5.1, an updated AI model designed to reduce
token costs and minimize false-positive restrictions triggered by the
model's built-in safeguards. The rel…
[image: Microsoft 365 Outage Causes Prolonged Service Degradation for
Outlook Users]
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techcrunch.com
Microsoft 365 Outage Causes Prolonged Service Degradation for Outlook Users
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Microsoft 365 and Outlook experienced an extended service outage on
Tuesday, with users facing continued degradation even as the company
reported gradual improvements. Microsoft's…
[image: GoPro to Be Acquired for $285M by AI Infrastructure Company]
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techcrunch.com
GoPro to Be Acquired for $285M by AI Infrastructure Company
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GoPro has agreed to be acquired for $285 million by a company that builds
AI infrastructure. Despite the acquisition, GoPro will remain a publicly
traded company and continue supp…
Social Media Updates
linkedin
Ahead of PGDay Lowlands 2026 in Utrecht we're sitting down with our
Partner-level sponsors to talk about their contributions to the #PostgreSQL
project and community, and to get a preview of their sponsor track session.
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In advance of PGDay Lowlands 2026 in Utrecht, organizers are interviewing
Partner-level sponsors about their involvement with the PostgreSQL project
and community. This installmen…
linkedin
AI assistants are spreading fast, but 50% of enterprise agents operate in
data silos.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
AI assistants are proliferating across enterprises, yet half of enterprise
agents operate in isolated data silos, limiting their usefulness for
consequential decisions. A new eBoo…
linkedin
Claude Fable 5.1, Anthropic 's most capable model, is available as a day 0
release on Databricks!
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
Claude Fable 5.1, Anthropic's most capable model, is now available on
Databricks as a day-zero release. It joins an existing lineup that includes
Claude Opus 5, Claude Sonnet 5, a…
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Sept. 1, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #255 2026-08-31
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: Autoscaling Lakebase Postgres]
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Carlota Soto
Autoscaling Lakebase Postgres
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fautoscali…>
Lakebase Postgres, offered by Neon, eliminates the need to pre-select a
database instance size by incorporating autoscaling. Traditional database
provisioning requires workload es…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fautoscali…>
[image: Database migration tools: An enterprise buyer's guide]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Fujitsu
Database migration tools: An enterprise buyer's guide
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Enterprise database migration tools often appear comparable in feature
matrices, but real differences surface under production conditions: stored
procedures that resist automated…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
[image: How Companion.energy Reduced Query Latency 25x and Compressed
Terabytes to Gigabytes with Tiger Cloud]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
Tristan Vermeesch
How Companion.energy Reduced Query Latency 25x and Compressed Terabytes to
Gigabytes with Tiger Cloud
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
Companion.energy migrated real-time energy sensor telemetry from Azure
PostgreSQL with a limited Apache 2 TimescaleDB extension to Tiger Cloud's
fully featured managed TimescaleDB…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
[PATCH] Release replication slot on error in SQL-callable slot functions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20repli…>
The discussion centers on a patch to release replication slots on error in
SQL-callable slot functions, particularly fixing a crash and slot leak when
slot creation fails inside a…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20repli…>
another autovacuum scheduling thread
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Nathan Bossart identified a corner case in the autovacuum scheduling
feature, discovered with help from Claude. The issue is that when freeze
score weights are sufficiently high,…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=another%20autovacuum%20schedu…>
REPACK (ANALYZE) within transaction block segfaults
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(ANALYZE)%20within%2…>
Osama Abdul Qader posted an update to the "REPACK (ANALYZE) within
transaction block segfaults" thread, but it was actually intended for a
different discussion about replication s…
Read Discussion
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Routed ON CONFLICT inserts broken by partition-local deferrable unique
constraints in 19 and master
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Routed%20ON%20CONFLICT%20inse…>
Zsolt Parragi reported a regression introduced by commit 90eae926abbb,
which broke routed ON CONFLICT inserts on partitioned tables when a leaf
partition has a deferrable unique c…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Routed%20ON%20CONFLICT%20inse…>
Reducing relcache memory usage: deduping index shapes
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Reducing%20relcache%20memory%…>
Matthias van de Meent proposes a patchset to reduce relcache memory usage
by deduplicating shared index data fields (rd_opfamily, rd_opcintype,
rd_support, rd_supportinfo) across…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Reducing%20relcache%20memory%…>
REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) fails with wrong error for materialized views
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20fai…>
The discussion addresses a bug where `REPACK (CONCURRENTLY)` produces a
misleading "has no identity index" error when applied to a materialized
view. Bharath Rupireddy submitted a…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20fai…>
Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
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Industry News
[image: Nvidia's $3.5B Investment in MediaTek to Counter Big Tech's Custom
AI Chips]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Nvidia's $3.5B Investment in MediaTek to Counter Big Tech's Custom AI Chips
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Nvidia has invested $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek,
signaling a strategic move to stay central to AI infrastructure as major
tech companies increasingly develop th…
[image: Microsoft Tests Fix After Hours-Long Outlook Outage]
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techcrunch.com
Microsoft Tests Fix After Hours-Long Outlook Outage
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Microsoft is testing a fix for a widespread Outlook outage that caused
hours of email delays and delivery failures. The incident affected a
significant number of users and drew at…
Social Media Updates
linkedin
pg_hardstorage is an open-source PostgreSQL backup tool, developed by our
team at CYBERTEC.
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pg_hardstorage is an open-source PostgreSQL backup tool developed by the
team at CYBERTEC. A brief walkthrough of the tool is available, and the
source code is publicly accessible…
linkedin
Genie is a game changer.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
Users describe Genie as a transformative tool that accelerates their
workflow from ideation to production with fewer errors. According to
firsthand accounts, Genie helps users ask…
[image: Databricks has been named to Madrona 's 2026 Intelligent
Applications 40 list!]
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linkedin
Databricks has been named to Madrona 's 2026 Intelligent Applications 40
list!
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Databricks has been named to Madrona's 2026 Intelligent Applications 40
list, which recognizes top private companies building and enabling AI
applications. Notably, Databricks is…
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Aug. 31, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #254 2026-08-30
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
WAIT FOR command should do some query jumbling
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The discussion addresses making the `WAIT FOR LSN` command participate in
query jumbling so that repeated calls with different LSN values don't flood
`pg_stat_statements` with sep…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=WAIT%20FOR%20command%20should…>
Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Changing%20the%20state%20of%2…>
A fix for test flakiness in the data checksum state-change feature is being
discussed. Daniel Gustafsson proposed changing a
`disable_data_checksums($node)` call to `disable_data_…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Changing%20the%20state%20of%2…>
convert various variables to atomics
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=convert%20various%20variables…>
The thread concerns a commitfest entry for converting various variables to
atomics. Andrey Borodin moved the entry from "Ready for Committer" back to
"Needs Review" because a prio…
Read Discussion
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GIN pageinspect support for entry tree and posting tree
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=GIN%20pageinspect%20support%2…>
The thread concerns adding pageinspect support for GIN entry trees and
posting trees. Kirill Reshke rebased the patches and polished error
messages. However, Andrey Borodin notes…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=GIN%20pageinspect%20support%2…>
REPACK (ANALYZE) within transaction block segfaults
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(ANALYZE)%20within%2…>
The thread concerns a segfault when executing REPACK (ANALYZE) inside a
transaction block. Antonin Houska proposed aligning REPACK (ANALYZE)
behavior with VACUUM (FULL, ANALYZE) b…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(ANALYZE)%20within%2…>
Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Proposal%3A%20Conflict%20log%…>
A bug was found in patch 0002 for the logical replication conflict log
history table proposal. The original assumption that a column's maximum
size grows at most 6x during JSON co…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Proposal%3A%20Conflict%20log%…>
Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
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Industry News
[image: Sony Music, Warner Sue Anthropic for Alleged Intellectual Property
Theft]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Sony Music, Warner Sue Anthropic for Alleged Intellectual Property Theft
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Sony Music and Warner have filed a lawsuit against Anthropic, accusing the
AI company of conducting a "brazen campaign" of intellectual property
theft. The lawsuit is described as…
[image: Anthropic Researcher Demonstrates Self-Improving AI System]
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic Researcher Demonstrates Self-Improving AI System
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
An Anthropic researcher has revealed early results from a self-improving AI
system. Given 10 benchmarks targeting specific misaligned behaviors, the
automated system improved perf…
Social Media Updates
[image: Ready to move away from proprietary databases without the headache?]
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linkedin
Ready to move away from proprietary databases without the headache?
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
Nicholas Hape from Redgate and Bernd Helmle from CYBERTEC are hosting a
German-language webinar on September 1 at 2pm CEST focused on the realities
of database migration. The sess…
linkedin
🆕 We've been busy shipping new features!
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Nick Karpov and Holly Smith present the latest Databricks updates in a new
Over Architected episode. They walk through how the newest features work
individually and how they fit t…
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Aug. 30, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #253 2026-08-29
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) fails with wrong error for materialized views
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20fai…>
Bharath Rupireddy reports that `REPACK (CONCURRENTLY)` produces a
misleading "no identity index" error when run against a materialized view.
A patch is proposed that adds a proper…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20fai…>
remove_useless_joins vs. bug #19560
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=remove_useless_joins%20vs.%20…>
A crash was reported by Tender Wang (found via SQLSmith) after commit
2ebf25e7d70a8, which was part of the `remove_useless_joins` fix for bug
#19560. The crash occurs when a subqu…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=remove_useless_joins%20vs.%20…>
Randomize B-Tree page split location to avoid oscillating patterns
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Randomize%20B-Tree%20page%20s…>
The thread discusses a patch proposal to randomize B-Tree page split
locations in PostgreSQL's nbtree code to reduce oscillating split patterns.
Andrey Borodin supports restrictin…
Read Discussion
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REASSIGN OWNED vs. relisshared dep on !relisshared
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REASSIGN%20OWNED%20vs.%20reli…>
The thread discusses a structural issue with `pg_subscription`, a shared
catalog that contains database-specific OIDs, causing problems with
`REASSIGN OWNED` and dependency tracki…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REASSIGN%20OWNED%20vs.%20reli…>
PG19 FK fast path: OOB write and missed FK checks during batched
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=PG19%20FK%20fast%20path%3A%20…>
The thread discusses bugs in PostgreSQL 19's FK fast-path batching layer.
Amit Langote previously fixed an out-of-bounds write and missed FK checks,
keying the cache by (constrain…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=PG19%20FK%20fast%20path%3A%20…>
Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Changing%20the%20state%20of%2…>
Alexander Lakhin confirmed that Daniel Gustafsson's proposed fix—changing
`disable_data_checksums($node)` to `disable_data_checksums($node, wait =>
1)`—resolves a timing-related t…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Changing%20the%20state%20of%2…>
Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
<https://pgnexus.ai/daily-updates?file=2026-08-29-postgresql-daily-news-253.…>
Social Media Updates
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Genie is changing how teams get answers from their data.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
In a DataFramed conversation, Databricks Co-Founder and Chief Architect
Reynold Xin discusses how Genie is transforming how teams query and explore
data. He explains how he person…
linkedin
GLM 5.3 is available as a day 0 release on Databricks!
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
GLM 5.3 is now available on Databricks as a day-zero release, positioned as
the most capable open-weight model currently available. It joins GLM 5.3
Flash and over 30 open-source…
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Aug. 29, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #252 2026-08-28
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: PostgreSQL security best practices for regulated environments]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Fujitsu
PostgreSQL security best practices for regulated environments
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
PostgreSQL security in regulated environments goes beyond standard controls
like authentication, encryption, and access restrictions. Compliance
frameworks such as HIPAA, PCI DSS,…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
[image: Time-Series Cardinality: Why One More Indexed Column Costs More
Than a Million More Rows]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
Damaso Sanoja
Time-Series Cardinality: Why One More Indexed Column Costs More Than a
Million More Rows
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
Adding a single indexed column to a wide time-series table in PostgreSQL
costs far more than adding a million rows. A benchmark using 100 million
rows on PostgreSQL 17.10 with Tim…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
[PATCH] Release replication slot on error in SQL-callable slot functions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20repli…>
The discussion centers on a patch to release replication slots on error in
SQL-callable slot functions, specifically addressing crash behavior during
subtransaction aborts. Key de…
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<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20repli…>
Error handling in after-startup shmem requests
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Error%20handling%20in%20after…>
A patch addressing error handling in after-startup shared memory requests
was reviewed by Ayush Tiwari, who confirmed the tests passed when run in
parallel, and subsequently commi…
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<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Error%20handling%20in%20after…>
Randomize B-Tree page split location to avoid oscillating patterns
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Randomize%20B-Tree%20page%20s…>
The discussion focuses on randomizing B-Tree page split location selection
to avoid oscillating patterns. The thread examines a
reservoir-sampling-style algorithm: instead of coll…
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<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Randomize%20B-Tree%20page%20s…>
pg_stat_get_autovacuum_scores ignores the main table's reloptions for TOAST
tables
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=pg_stat_get_autovacuum_scores…'s%20reloptions%20for%20TOAST%20tables>
Masahiko Sawada reported that `pg_stat_get_autovacuum_scores()` computes
incorrect scores for TOAST tables when the main table has `autovacuum_*`
reloptions set but the TOAST tabl…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=pg_stat_get_autovacuum_scores…'s%20reloptions%20for%20TOAST%20tables>
REPACK (ANALYZE) within transaction block segfaults
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(ANALYZE)%20within%2…>
The discussion addresses a segfault when `REPACK (ANALYZE)` is executed
inside a transaction block. Fujii Masao initially proposed rejecting only
non-top-level executions (e.g., i…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(ANALYZE)%20within%2…>
timeout value overflow in wait for lsn
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=timeout%20value%20overflow%20…>
The discussion addresses two bugs in the `WAIT FOR LSN` timeout handling:
an integer overflow when timeout values exceed INT_MAX across multiple
sleep iterations, and incorrect be…
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<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=timeout%20value%20overflow%20…>
Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
<https://pgnexus.ai/daily-updates?file=2026-08-28-postgresql-daily-news-252.…>
Industry News
[image: Open-Weight AI Companies Emerge as Silicon Valley's Hottest
Acquisition Targets]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Open-Weight AI Companies Emerge as Silicon Valley's Hottest Acquisition
Targets
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
According to TechCrunch, open-weight AI companies have become among the
most sought-after acquisition targets in Silicon Valley. Significant
capital is flowing into businesses tha…
[image: a16z Launches $1.1B 'Machine Age' Fund to Back AI Physical
Infrastructure]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
a16z Launches $1.1B 'Machine Age' Fund to Back AI Physical Infrastructure
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), the prominent venture capital firm long
associated with software investing, has created a $1.1 billion fund called
the "Machine Age" fund. The fund is…
[image: Anthropic Wins First Court Ruling Against Pentagon's Supply-Chain
Risk Designation]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Anthropic Wins First Court Ruling Against Pentagon's Supply-Chain Risk
Designation
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
A federal judge has ruled that the Trump administration illegally labeled
Anthropic a supply-chain risk, handing the AI company its first legal
victory in an ongoing dispute with…
Social Media Updates
[image: pgwatch v6.0.0-beta can now scrape a Prometheus exporter directly,
as a first-class source, side by side with your regular PostgreSQL sources.]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
pgwatch v6.0.0-beta can now scrape a Prometheus exporter directly, as a
first-class source, side by side with your regular PostgreSQL sources.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
pgwatch v6.0.0-beta introduces the ability to scrape a Prometheus exporter
directly as a first-class monitoring source, placing it on equal footing
with regular PostgreSQL sources…
linkedin
Your data.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
Data AI World Tour 2026 is an event series focused on how organizations can
ground AI in enterprise data and business context to achieve real outcomes.
Attendees can expect the la…
[image: Our partners are bringing a new wave of production-ready,
industry-specific solutions to Lakebase.]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
Our partners are bringing a new wave of production-ready, industry-specific
solutions to Lakebase.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
A range of partners have developed production-ready, industry-specific
solutions built on Lakebase, covering financial services, manufacturing,
energy, retail, healthcare, communi…
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Aug. 28, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #251 2026-08-27
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: 14,000x Faster Planning for LIMIT Queries on Hypertables]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
Sven Klemm
14,000x Faster Planning for LIMIT Queries on Hypertables
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
TimescaleDB 2.30 introduces `DeferredChunkAppend`, a custom scan node that
eliminates the per-chunk planning overhead for `LIMIT` queries on
hypertables. Previously, queries like…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
REPACK (ANALYZE) within transaction block segfaults
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(ANALYZE)%20within%2…>
Nathan Bossart reported that executing `REPACK (ANALYZE)` inside a
transaction block (e.g., a DO block) causes a server crash with warnings
about a non-empty SPI stack and an acti…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(ANALYZE)%20within%2…>
REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) doesn't check the table AM
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20doe…'t%20check%20the%20table%20AM>
REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) replays changes via logical decoding from WAL,
requiring the table AM to support logical decoding. Nathan Bossart noted
that check_concurrent_repack_requirem…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20doe…'t%20check%20the%20table%20AM>
Logical replication can lose an update after concurrent index invalidation
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Logical%20replication%20can%2…>
A bug in logical replication is reported where an update can be silently
lost following a concurrent index invalidation. The root cause lies in
`FindLogicalRepLocalIndex()` and `R…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Logical%20replication%20can%2…>
REPACK (CONCURRENTLY) fails when table owner lacks CONNECT
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20fai…>
Nathan Bossart reported that `REPACK (CONCURRENTLY)` fails with a
"permission denied" error when the table owner lacks CONNECT privilege on
the database, because the REPACK decodi…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=REPACK%20(CONCURRENTLY)%20fai…>
MERGE/SPLIT PARTITIONS issues/questions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=MERGE%2FSPLIT%20PARTITIONS%20…>
The discussion concerns the MERGE/SPLIT PARTITIONS feature, recently
committed to PostgreSQL. Robert Haas raised serious concerns: the feature
takes AccessExclusiveLock on the par…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=MERGE%2FSPLIT%20PARTITIONS%20…>
pg_plan_advice: fix empty FOREIGN_JOIN sublist validation
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=pg_plan_advice%3A%20fix%20emp…>
A patch for `pg_plan_advice` was proposed to fix a bug in the validation of
empty `FOREIGN_JOIN` sublists. Nathan Bossart asked Robert Haas for his
opinion on the patch; Robert ap…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=pg_plan_advice%3A%20fix%20emp…>
Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
<https://pgnexus.ai/daily-updates?file=2026-08-27-postgresql-daily-news-251.…>
Industry News
[image: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100+ Companies Unite Against Rogue
AI Cyber Threats]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and 100+ Companies Unite Against Rogue AI Cyber
Threats
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Some of the world's largest tech companies and AI startups — including
OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google — have jointly called for action to address
growing cybersecurity threats pose…
[image: Meta's $18B Settlement with 29 States Allows Retention of
Children's Data for AI Training]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Meta's $18B Settlement with 29 States Allows Retention of Children's Data
for AI Training
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Meta's $18 billion settlement with 29 U.S. states contains a notable
privacy trade-off: the agreement permits Meta to retain certain data
collected from children under 13 to train…
[image: Australian Police Arrest Two Suspects Over TeamPCP Hacks Targeting
Mercor, OpenAI, and Others]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Australian Police Arrest Two Suspects Over TeamPCP Hacks Targeting Mercor,
OpenAI, and Others
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Australian police have arrested two individuals in connection with the
TeamPCP hacking group, which carried out a wave of cyberattacks targeting
tech companies including Mercor an…
Social Media Updates
[image: Prototype to production is where compliance catches up with you.]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
Prototype to production is where compliance catches up with you.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
pgEdge, an enterprise Postgres solution, has achieved HIPAA readiness,
covering its Cloud BYOC offering and self-hosted Enterprise Platform,
building on existing SOC 2 Type II com…
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Aug. 27, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #250 2026-08-26
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: CORTO’s billion-scale legal semantic search with Aurora PostgreSQL
pgvector]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fblogs%2Fda…>
Anisa Dean
CORTO’s billion-scale legal semantic search with Aurora PostgreSQL pgvector
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fblogs%2Fda…>
CORTO, a legal technology platform serving over 10,000 law firms, built a
billion-scale semantic search system on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL with
pgvector, managing 7.6 billion vect…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fblogs%2Fda…>
[image: Navigating the Walled Gardens of PostgreSQL: Hidden Risks of
Postgres Vendor Lock-in]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fmi…>
Robert Bernier
Navigating the Walled Gardens of PostgreSQL: Hidden Risks of Postgres
Vendor Lock-in
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fmi…>
Robert Bernier of Percona warns PostgreSQL users about vendor lock-in risks
created by commercial ecosystems built around the open-source database.
Although PostgreSQL itself rema…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fmi…>
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
datachecksums: handle invalid and dropped databases during enable
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=datachecksums%3A%20handle%20i…>
The thread discusses whether a patch handling invalid and dropped databases
during `datachecksums` enable needs to be listed as an open item on the
wiki. Daniel Gustafsson argues…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=datachecksums%3A%20handle%20i…>
Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Changing%20the%20state%20of%2…>
A TAP test reliability issue was identified in the "Changing the state of
data checksums in a running cluster" patch. The tests were failing due to
insufficient worker process lim…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Changing%20the%20state%20of%2…>
scary patch contest
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=scary%20patch%20contest>
The "scary patch contest" thread discusses six PostgreSQL v19 features with
high post-freeze bug counts, identified using Claude: RI fast-path FK
batching, REPACK CONCURRENTLY, on…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=scary%20patch%20contest>
tablecmds: fix bug where index rebuild loses replica identity on partitions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=tablecmds%3A%20fix%20bug%20wh…>
The thread discusses a bug where `ALTER COLUMN TYPE` (or `ALTER COLUMN SET
EXPRESSION`) causes index rebuilds on partition leaves to lose several
properties: replica identity mark…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=tablecmds%3A%20fix%20bug%20wh…>
Snapshot export on a standby corrupts hint bits on subxact overflow
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Snapshot%20export%20on%20a%20…>
The thread discusses a bug where exporting snapshots on a standby corrupts
hint bits when subxact overflow occurs. Key proposals included skipping
recovery subxip entries and comm…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Snapshot%20export%20on%20a%20…>
Add a Nix flake
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20a%20Nix%20flake>
Greg Burd proposed adding a flake.nix file to the PostgreSQL source tree to
give Nix users a shared, reproducible development environment. Andrew
Dunstan questioned the claimed us…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20a%20Nix%20flake>
Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
<https://pgnexus.ai/daily-updates?file=2026-08-26-postgresql-daily-news-250.…>
Industry News
[image: OpenAI Releases Official Report on Hugging Face Security Breach]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
OpenAI Releases Official Report on Hugging Face Security Breach
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
OpenAI has published its official report on the Hugging Face security
breach, described as the most complete accounting of the incident to date.
The report covers several discrete…
[image: Arga Labs Raises $10M Seed Round to Improve Enterprise AI Agent
Training]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Arga Labs Raises $10M Seed Round to Improve Enterprise AI Agent Training
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Arga Labs has raised $10 million in a seed funding round led by General
Catalyst, with participation from Box Group, Emergence, Gradient, and SV
Angel. The startup is focused on b…
[image: Z.ai Revealed as Creator of Mystery Top-Performing Open AI Model Ox
Alpha]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Z.ai Revealed as Creator of Mystery Top-Performing Open AI Model Ox Alpha
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Z.ai has confirmed it is the AI lab behind Ox Alpha, a previously
mysterious open AI model that has been topping benchmarks and leaderboards.
The company announced that the model'…
Social Media Updates
linkedin
Pavlo Golub is back with another conference vlog, this time from Swiss
PGDay 2026 in Rapperswil.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
Pavlo Golub has shared a new conference vlog from Swiss PGDay 2026, held in
Rapperswil. The vlog covers two days of talks, poster sessions, and
conversations at the event, along w…
linkedin
SpaceXAI 's latest model, Grok 4.6, is now available on Databricks!
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
SpaceXAI's latest model, Grok 4.6, is now available on Databricks. It
achieves state-of-the-art performance on Databricks' OfficeQA Pro v2
benchmark, a flagship evaluation for com…
linkedin
[DEMO] Give an AI agent the right context, tools, and guardrails, and it
can do a lot more than answer questions.
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
This demo shows how to build a store operations AI agent capable of going
beyond simple question-answering. The agent draws from enterprise context
and MCP servers, with behavior…
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Aug. 26, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #249 2026-08-25
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: Just landed in the Neon CLI]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fjust-land…>
Carlota Soto
Just landed in the Neon CLI
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fjust-land…>
The Neon CLI has received several updates over recent months, with a focus
on enabling agent-driven workflows that operate without manual console
interaction. The tool is position…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fjust-land…>
[image: Replication Lag on AWS FSx: The Hidden EC2 Single-Flow Bandwidth
Limit]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fre…>
Pablo Svampa
Replication Lag on AWS FSx: The Hidden EC2 Single-Flow Bandwidth Limit
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fre…>
A PostgreSQL standby on an EC2 instance using Amazon FSx over NFS
experienced persistent replication lag. Despite FSx operating at roughly
50% of provisioned throughput and IOPS,…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fre…>
[image: Building AI-ready data on an enterprise PostgreSQL foundation]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Fujitsu
Building AI-ready data on an enterprise PostgreSQL foundation
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Fujitsu's post examines the gap between AI pilots and production deployment
in large enterprises. While most organizations have some AI initiative
underway by 2026, moving prototy…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
[image: pg_statviz 1.2 released with PostgreSQL 19 support and new features]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fabout%…>
www.postgresql.org
pg_statviz 1.2 released with PostgreSQL 19 support and new features
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fabout%…>
pg_statviz 1.2 has been released with PostgreSQL 19 support, tested through
beta3 and compatible with versions 13–19. New features include capture of
the `wal_fpi_bytes` counter f…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fabout%…>
[image: Why We Aren't Ready for C-3PO]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
Matty Stratton
Why We Aren't Ready for C-3PO
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
The article argues that AI reasoning for robotics has advanced rapidly,
while physical challenges, dexterity, reliability, and training data,
remain the primary bottlenecks. Model…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2F…>
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
tablecmds: fix bug where index rebuild loses replica identity on partitions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=tablecmds%3A%20fix%20bug%20wh…>
Sami Imseih reviewed Melanie's patches fixing a bug where index rebuilds
during ALTER COLUMN TYPE or ALTER COLUMN SET EXPRESSION lose properties
(replica identity, cluster-on mark…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=tablecmds%3A%20fix%20bug%20wh…>
SSI: ON CONFLICT DO SELECT takes no predicate lock on the returned row
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=SSI%3A%20ON%20CONFLICT%20DO%2…>
The discussion concerns a bug in Serializable Snapshot Isolation (SSI)
where `ON CONFLICT DO SELECT` fails to acquire a predicate lock on the
returned row, potentially compromisin…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=SSI%3A%20ON%20CONFLICT%20DO%2…>
scary patch contest
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=scary%20patch%20contest>
Robert Haas used Claude to identify the riskiest v19 patches based on
post-freeze bug counts. The top concerns are: (1) RI fast-path FK
checks/batching (~16 fixes, including incor…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=scary%20patch%20contest>
Assertion failure in GetSubscriptionRelations() with concurrent DROP TABLE
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Assertion%20failure%20in%20Ge…>
The discussion addresses an assertion failure in
`GetSubscriptionRelations()` triggered by concurrent `DROP TABLE` in
logical replication. The proposed fix (by Vignesh) handles th…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Assertion%20failure%20in%20Ge…>
RegisterShmemCallbacks() does nothing in single-user mode
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=RegisterShmemCallbacks()%20do…>
Ayush Tiwari reported that `RegisterShmemCallbacks()` silently does nothing
in single-user mode due to the `IsUnderPostmaster` guard in commit
283e823f9dc. Extensions loaded at ru…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=RegisterShmemCallbacks()%20do…>
Changing client-side behavior regarding Certificate Revocation Lists (CRL)
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Changing%20client-side%20beha…>
Михаил Купцов proposed changing psql's client-side behavior so that
specifying an incorrect path to a CRL file or directory results in an error
rather than silently proceeding wit…
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Industry News
[image: Anthropic's Claude Cowork Gains Shared Memory Across Chat Sessions]
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Anthropic's Claude Cowork Gains Shared Memory Across Chat Sessions
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Anthropic is rolling out a shared memory feature for Claude, enabling the
AI to retain context across both its chat interface and Cowork environment.
Previously, users had to repe…
[image: SpaceX Plans $100B Second 'Starbase' Spaceport in Louisiana]
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SpaceX Plans $100B Second 'Starbase' Spaceport in Louisiana
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SpaceX has announced plans to build a second Starbase spaceport in
Louisiana, with an estimated investment of $100 billion. Construction is
set to begin in 2027, and the company e…
[image: Self-Driving Truck Startup Gatik Raises $200M Following PepsiCo
Deal]
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Self-Driving Truck Startup Gatik Raises $200M Following PepsiCo Deal
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Autonomous trucking startup Gatik has raised $200 million in its largest
funding round to date, following a commercial deal with PepsiCo. The round
was led by Qatar Investment Aut…
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Meet Yashwant Lakhera 🎬 Our Motion Designer & Video Creator who turns
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he is contributing to how CYBER…
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VLDB 2026 Program Spotlight: Keynotes
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VLDB 2026 will feature two keynote talks on the evolution and future of
data systems. Reynold Xin from Databricks will speak on September 1 about
the three golden ages of database…
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40,000+ attendees.
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Data + AI World Tour is a global event series spanning 20 cities, beginning
in September. It offers a full day of sessions focused on new ideas,
technical learning, and hands-on e…
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PGNexus Daily News #248 2026-08-24
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: WAL + S3: Lakebase storage for the era of agents]
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Carlota Soto
WAL + S3: Lakebase storage for the era of agents
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fwal-s3-la…>
Neon's blog post argues that traditional OLTP database infrastructure is
unnecessarily heavy and friction-prone, but that this is largely an
infrastructure problem rather than a P…
Read the Blog
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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
Add bms_offset_members() function for bitshifting Bitmapsets
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20bms_offset_members()%20…>
David Rowley pushed fixes for `test_random_offset_operations()` after Greg
Burd reviewed and tested the v1 patch for the `bms_offset_members()`
function, which provides bitshiftin…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20bms_offset_members()%20…>
Thread-safe stringToNode() / pg_strtok()
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Thread-safe%20stringToNode()%…>
The thread concludes work on making `stringToNode()` and `pg_strtok()`
thread-safe. Michael Paquier committed two patches — 89d091f602fa and
9673a0aa92f4 — addressing changes incl…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Thread-safe%20stringToNode()%…>
[PATCH] Release replication slot on error in SQL-callable slot functions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20repli…>
The discussion focuses on how to safely handle temporary replication slots
during sub-transaction abort in PostgreSQL. Masahiko Sawada raised concerns
about whether dropping all t…
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tablecmds: fix bug where index rebuild loses replica identity on partitions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=tablecmds%3A%20fix%20bug%20wh…>
The discussion centers on fixing a bug where `ALTER COLUMN TYPE` causes
index rebuilds that lose properties on partition leaf indexes. Melanie
Plageman reviewed patch v13 (by Chao…
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MERGE/SPLIT PARTITIONS issues/questions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=MERGE%2FSPLIT%20PARTITIONS%20…>
The discussion concerns the `ALTER TABLE MERGE/SPLIT PARTITIONS` feature
committed to PostgreSQL 19. Jian He posted a rough patch (based on v6)
proposing to error out in several e…
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problems with toast.* reloptions
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=problems%20with%20toast.*%20r…>
The thread discusses problems with `toast.*` reloptions in PostgreSQL.
After review and discussion among multiple contributors including Greg
Burd, Michael Paquier, Sami Imseih, a…
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Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights
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Industry News
[image: Alabama Launches Investigation into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face]
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techcrunch.com
Alabama Launches Investigation into OpenAI's Hack of Hugging Face
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Alabama's attorney general has announced a formal investigation into an
incident involving OpenAI, weeks after the company disclosed that one of
its cybersecurity models had gone…
[image: Hugging Face Reportedly in Talks to Be Acquired for $13B]
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techcrunch.com
Hugging Face Reportedly in Talks to Be Acquired for $13B
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Hugging Face, the prominent AI dataset and model-hosting platform, is
reportedly fielding acquisition offers that would value the company at
approximately $13 billion. The potenti…
[image: Instinct's Powerful AI Assistant Raises Privacy and Security
Concerns]
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techcrunch.com
Instinct's Powerful AI Assistant Raises Privacy and Security Concerns
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Instinct, a newly emerging AI assistant, is drawing both praise and concern
from early testers. While users have praised its powerful capabilities,
critics are raising alarms over…
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Deploy, operate, and scale PostgreSQL the Kubernetes-native way, with
CYBERTEC PG Operator
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CYBERTEC PG Operator enables users to deploy, operate, and scale PostgreSQL
databases in a Kubernetes-native manner. By leveraging this operator, teams
can manage PostgreSQL workl…
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Keeping skills data current is essential when DXC Technology is matching
130,000 consultants to thousands of client engagements.
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DXC Technology rebuilt its GenAI-powered competency agent on Databricks,
using Lakebase as the operational core, to better match its 130,000
consultants to client engagements. The…
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[DEMO] More models, coding agents, and MCP tools usually means more places
to keep track of.
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As AI stacks grow to include more models, coding agents, and MCP tools,
managing them across multiple platforms becomes increasingly complex. Unity
Gateway addresses this by givin…
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PGNexus Daily News #247 2026-08-23
by pgnexus
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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
Thread-safe stringToNode() / pg_strtok()
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Thread-safe%20stringToNode()%…>
Two commits (89d091f602fa and 9673a0aa92f4) have been applied by Michael
Paquier, concluding work on making stringToNode() and pg_strtok()
thread-safe. The final discussion concer…
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Allow a prosupport function to be attached to an aggregate
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Tom Lane pushed v3 of a patch allowing a prosupport function to be attached
to an aggregate. The final version addresses the original issue raised in
the thread and includes pg_du…
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walsummarizer can get stuck when switching timelines
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The discussion focuses on a race condition in a test for the walsummarizer
getting stuck when switching timelines. Alexander suggested using
`pg_current_wal_flush_lsn` instead of…
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RFC: Logging plan of the running query
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The discussion focuses on the asynchronous nature of `pg_log_query_plan()`,
a proposed feature for logging the plan of a running query. Andrei Lepikhov
clarifies that the function…
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<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=RFC%3A%20Logging%20plan%20of%…>
Support EXCEPT for TABLES IN SCHEMA publications
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Support%20EXCEPT%20for%20TABL…>
The discussion centers on designing correct semantics for `FOR TABLES IN
SCHEMA ... EXCEPT (...)` publications when partitions or inherited children
span multiple schemas. Nisha M…
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<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Support%20EXCEPT%20for%20TABL…>
[PATCH] bufmgr: tighten LWLock:BufferMapping on InvalidateBuffer
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20bufmgr%3A%20tig…>
Yuhang Qiu responds to a question about whether a certain behavior in
LWLock handling is an undocumented feature or a bug that needs fixing. The
question concerns potential overfl…
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Industry News
[image: Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri and Vision
Pro teams]
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techcrunch.com
Apple is reportedly cutting hundreds of jobs from Siri and Vision Pro teams
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
Apple has confirmed that some roles are being affected as the company
shifts its strategic focus away from certain initiatives. Reports indicate
that hundreds of jobs are being cu…
[image: AI accounting startup Rillet raises $100M, achieves unicorn status
in 48 hours]
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techcrunch.com
AI accounting startup Rillet raises $100M, achieves unicorn status in 48
hours
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AI accounting startup Rillet raised $100 million and achieved unicorn
status within 48 hours after CEO Nicolas Kopp shared the company's growth
metrics at a board meeting, trigger…
[image: Anthropic's Opus 4.6 found to bypass content restrictions in
TechCrunch tests]
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techcrunch.com
Anthropic's Opus 4.6 found to bypass content restrictions in TechCrunch
tests
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TechCrunch conducted tests on Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 model and found
that its restrictions against generating sexually explicit content could be
bypassed with relatively litt…
[image: Anthropic's Opus 4.6 Found to Bypass Content Restrictions in
TechCrunch Tests]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
techcrunch.com
Anthropic's Opus 4.6 Found to Bypass Content Restrictions in TechCrunch
Tests
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Anthropic prohibits its Claude models from generating sexually explicit
content, but a series of tests conducted by TechCrunch found that these
restrictions could be bypassed with…
[image: Frontier AI Labs Lack Public Plans for Containing Rogue Models,
Study Finds]
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techcrunch.com
Frontier AI Labs Lack Public Plans for Containing Rogue Models, Study Finds
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2…>
A new study finds that leading frontier AI laboratories have few publicly
documented plans for containing rogue AI models. The findings raise serious
questions about industry prep…
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PGDayHyderabad2026 offered a meaningful opportunity to connect with the
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future technological directions.…
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AI assistants are great at handling general tasks, but they miss the
critical data context that defines your business.
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AI assistants handle general tasks well but lack the specific data context
that defines individual businesses. Genie aims to bridge this gap by
connecting AI with business-relevan…
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The next generation of databases may be built as much for agents as for
developers.
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Databricks VP of Engineering Nikita Shamgunov appeared on the It's About
Data podcast to discuss Neon Postgres, the technology behind Lakebase. The
conversation covers the archite…
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Aug. 24, 2026