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PGConf.dev 2026: Our team’s sessions, working groups, and key takeaways

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PGConf.dev 2026: Our team’s sessions, working groups, and key takeaways

EnterpriseDB attended PGConf.dev 2026 as a Gold sponsor, participating heavily in the conference organization and content. Robert Haas helped organize the event and shaped Tuesday…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

Adding REPACK [concurrently]

Amit Kapila and Zhijie Hou discussed concerns about catalog_xmin handling in the REPACK CONCURRENTLY feature. Kapila questioned whether the patch should advance catalog_xmin to pr…

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Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication

The discussion focuses on implementing a conflict log history table for logical replication in PostgreSQL. A key technical issue emerged regarding the order of operations when cre…

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Changing the state of data checksums in a running cluster

Daniel Gustafsson has pushed fixes for the data checksum state change feature ahead of the PostgreSQL 19 beta1 deadline. The discussion focused on two main issues: a bug where sta…

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generic plans and "initial" pruning

Amit Langote and Thom Brown are discussing a bug related to generic plans and partition pruning. The issue involves PortalLockCachedPlan() replanning while QueryDesc still points…

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The world runs on data, but what happens when that foundation begins to flicker?

This is the first episode of an 8-part series examining database failure warning signs. The content explores how data dependency affects modern systems, highlighting issues like d…

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Superhuman scaled its AI productivity platform serving more than 40 million daily users by replacing fragile custom sync infrastructure with Lakebase and Databricks Apps.

Superhuman transformed its AI productivity platform infrastructure to better serve over 40 million daily users. The company replaced its fragile custom synchronization infrastruct…

Managed Iceberg, Iceberg v3, and Foreign Iceberg are now GA in Unity Catalog, making Unity Catalog the most comprehensive, interoperable, and production-ready Apache Iceberg catalog.

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Managed Iceberg, Iceberg v3, and Foreign Iceberg are now GA in Unity Catalog, making Unity Catalog the most comprehensive, interoperable, and production-ready Apache Iceberg catalog.

Unity Catalog has released several Apache Iceberg features to general availability. The release includes Iceberg v3 support with deletion vectors, row tracking, and VARIANT data t…

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