PGNexus Daily News #151 2026-05-18
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: From Stream Processing to the "PostgreSQL Village": A Marketer's
Journey to PGConf.de]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com…>
Elvira Szabo
From Stream Processing to the "PostgreSQL Village": A Marketer's Journey to
PGConf.de
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com…>
A marketer with Apache Flink experience shares insights from attending
PGConf.de 2026, her first PostgreSQL conference. She compares the
PostgreSQL community to Apache Flink, noti…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com…>
[image: From VMs to Kubernetes: A DBA's Journey in a Large Global Bank]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fv…>
enterprisedb.com
From VMs to Kubernetes: A DBA's Journey in a Large Global Bank
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fv…>
A major global financial institution successfully migrated their PostgreSQL
database operations from traditional virtual machines to a
Kubernetes-native architecture. This transfo…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fv…>
[image: Not All Open Source Is Equal: Choosing a PostgreSQL Operator for
Kubernetes in 2026]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fno…>
Slava Sarzhan
Not All Open Source Is Equal: Choosing a PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes
in 2026
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fno…>
The open-source landscape for PostgreSQL Kubernetes operators has shifted
dramatically, with many projects implementing licensing restrictions that
limit practical usage. MinIO ar…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fno…>
[image: Online WAL level change for logical decoding in PostgreSQL 19]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Shveta Malik
Online WAL level change for logical decoding in PostgreSQL 19
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
PostgreSQL 19 introduces the ability to change WAL levels online without
requiring a system restart, specifically benefiting logical decoding
operations. Previously, enabling logi…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
Adding REPACK [concurrently]
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20REPACK%20%5Bconcurre…>
Alvaro Herrera acknowledges Amit Kapila's concerns about the db-specific
snapshots patch for concurrent REPACK functionality. Amit had argued that
the logical decoding mechanism i…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20REPACK%20%5Bconcurre…>
Implement waiting for wal lsn replay: reloaded
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Implement%20waiting%20for%20w…>
Alexander Lakhin reports a new test failure in the recovery test suite that
appears to be caused by the recently committed "WAIT FOR LSN" feature
implementation. The failure occur…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Implement%20waiting%20for%20w…>
Industry News
[image: Google Search as you know it is over]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
techcrunch.com
Google Search as you know it is over
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
Google is fundamentally transforming its Search product from a traditional
list of links into an AI-powered experience centered on conversational
answers, autonomous agents, and i…
[image: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training
team]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
techcrunch.com
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and prominent AI researcher, has
joined Anthropic to work on its pre-training team. Pre-training is the
phase responsible for large-scale t…
[image: Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
techcrunch.com
Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
Dozens of popular open source software packages have been compromised in an
ongoing supply-chain attack campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud. The
attackers have successfully infiltra…
Social Media Updates
[image: Everyone wants to hear about disasters and war stories!]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
Everyone wants to hear about disasters and war stories!
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
A presentation by Ants Aasma, Henrietta Dombrovskaya, and Pavlo Golub about
disasters and war stories drew a packed audience with standing room only
attendance. The talk appears t…
[image: 🛠️ Air-gapped, self-hosted, on the LLM of your choice (Claude,
OpenAI, Gemini, or local via Ollama).]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
🛠️ Air-gapped, self-hosted, on the LLM of your choice (Claude, OpenAI,
Gemini, or local via Ollama).
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
pgEdge AI DBA Workbench offers air-gapped, self-hosted database management
using various LLM options including Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama
models. A live demonstration…
[image: What does the PostgreSQL community look like through fresh eyes?]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
What does the PostgreSQL community look like through fresh eyes?
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
Elvira Edina Szabo, who recently joined CYBERTEC from the Apache Flink
ecosystem, attended her first PostgreSQL conference at PGConf.de 2026.
Coming from a different open-source b…
Want to stay up to date with the PostgreSQL community and industry news?
Visit PGNexus <https://pgnexus.ai> to learn more
May 26, 2026
PGNexus Daily News #151 2026-05-18
by pgnexus
PGNexus Daily News
PostgreSQL Technical Articles
[image: From Stream Processing to the "PostgreSQL Village": A Marketer's
Journey to PGConf.de]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com…>
Elvira Szabo
From Stream Processing to the "PostgreSQL Village": A Marketer's Journey to
PGConf.de
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com…>
A marketer with Apache Flink experience shares insights from attending
PGConf.de 2026, her first PostgreSQL conference. She compares the
PostgreSQL community to Apache Flink, noti…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com…>
[image: From VMs to Kubernetes: A DBA's Journey in a Large Global Bank]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fv…>
enterprisedb.com
From VMs to Kubernetes: A DBA's Journey in a Large Global Bank
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fv…>
A major global financial institution successfully migrated their PostgreSQL
database operations from traditional virtual machines to a
Kubernetes-native architecture. This transfo…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fv…>
[image: Not All Open Source Is Equal: Choosing a PostgreSQL Operator for
Kubernetes in 2026]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fno…>
Slava Sarzhan
Not All Open Source Is Equal: Choosing a PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes
in 2026
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fno…>
The open-source landscape for PostgreSQL Kubernetes operators has shifted
dramatically, with many projects implementing licensing restrictions that
limit practical usage. MinIO ar…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fno…>
[image: Online WAL level change for logical decoding in PostgreSQL 19]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
Shveta Malik
Online WAL level change for logical decoding in PostgreSQL 19
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
PostgreSQL 19 introduces the ability to change WAL levels online without
requiring a system restart, specifically benefiting logical decoding
operations. Previously, enabling logi…
Read the Blog
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com…>
PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights
Adding REPACK [concurrently]
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20REPACK%20%5Bconcurre…>
Alvaro Herrera acknowledges Amit Kapila's concerns about the db-specific
snapshots patch for concurrent REPACK functionality. Amit had argued that
the logical decoding mechanism i…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20REPACK%20%5Bconcurre…>
Implement waiting for wal lsn replay: reloaded
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Implement%20waiting%20for%20w…>
Alexander Lakhin reports a new test failure in the recovery test suite that
appears to be caused by the recently committed "WAIT FOR LSN" feature
implementation. The failure occur…
Read Discussion
<https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Implement%20waiting%20for%20w…>
Industry News
[image: Google Search as you know it is over]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
techcrunch.com
Google Search as you know it is over
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
Google is fundamentally transforming its Search product from a traditional
list of links into an AI-powered experience centered on conversational
answers, autonomous agents, and i…
[image: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training
team]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
techcrunch.com
OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and prominent AI researcher, has
joined Anthropic to work on its pre-training team. Pre-training is the
phase responsible for large-scale t…
[image: Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages]
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
techcrunch.com
Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages
<https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2…>
Dozens of popular open source software packages have been compromised in an
ongoing supply-chain attack campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud. The
attackers have successfully infiltra…
Social Media Updates
[image: Everyone wants to hear about disasters and war stories!]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
Everyone wants to hear about disasters and war stories!
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
A presentation by Ants Aasma, Henrietta Dombrovskaya, and Pavlo Golub about
disasters and war stories drew a packed audience with standing room only
attendance. The talk appears t…
[image: 🛠️ Air-gapped, self-hosted, on the LLM of your choice (Claude,
OpenAI, Gemini, or local via Ollama).]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
🛠️ Air-gapped, self-hosted, on the LLM of your choice (Claude, OpenAI,
Gemini, or local via Ollama).
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
pgEdge AI DBA Workbench offers air-gapped, self-hosted database management
using various LLM options including Claude, OpenAI, Gemini, or local Ollama
models. A live demonstration…
[image: What does the PostgreSQL community look like through fresh eyes?]
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
linkedin
What does the PostgreSQL community look like through fresh eyes?
<https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%…>
Elvira Edina Szabo, who recently joined CYBERTEC from the Apache Flink
ecosystem, attended her first PostgreSQL conference at PGConf.de 2026.
Coming from a different open-source b…
Want to stay up to date with the PostgreSQL community and industry news?
Visit PGNexus <https://pgnexus.ai> to learn more
May 26, 2026