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WAIT FOR command should do some query jumbling

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…

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Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster

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_…

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convert various variables to atomics

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…

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GIN pageinspect support for entry tree and posting tree

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…

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REPACK (ANALYZE) within transaction block segfaults

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…

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Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication

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…

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Industry News

Sony Music, Warner Sue Anthropic for Alleged Intellectual Property Theft

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Sony Music, Warner Sue Anthropic for Alleged Intellectual Property Theft

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…

Anthropic Researcher Demonstrates Self-Improving AI System

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Anthropic Researcher Demonstrates Self-Improving AI System

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…

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Ready to move away from proprietary databases without the headache?

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Ready to move away from proprietary databases without the headache?

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…

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🆕 We've been busy shipping new features!

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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