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Postgres development activity

A developer examined statistics and trends in PostgreSQL project development activity, presenting findings through a series of charts with commentary. The analysis focuses on quan…

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What's new in CYPEX v2.0.0: tenancy moves from the query to the catalog

Svitlana Lytvynenko

What's new in CYPEX v2.0.0: tenancy moves from the query to the catalog

CYPEX v2.0.0, CYBERTEC's PostgreSQL-based application platform, replaces application-enforced multi-tenancy with PostgreSQL row-level security (RLS). Previously, tenant isolation…

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Database modernization services for enterprise data platforms

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Database modernization services for enterprise data platforms

Fujitsu's blog post addresses a common enterprise challenge: legacy database platforms such as Oracle, SQL Server, and Db2 continue to consume growing portions of IT budgets while…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

Introduce XID age based replication slot invalidation

The thread discusses XID age-based replication slot invalidation, focusing on edge cases in standby slot synchronization. Surya Poondla agrees with Nisha's analysis that making in…

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Report index currently being vacuumed in pg_stat_progress_vacuum

The discussion centers on a patch (v6) to report index progress in `pg_stat_progress_vacuum`, including per-worker stats such as `current_index_relid` and `index_blks_*` columns.…

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Support for 8-byte TOAST values, round two

The thread discusses the ongoing development of 8-byte (oid8) TOAST chunk IDs in PostgreSQL. Michael Paquier applied patches v18-0001 through v18-0003 but identified a bug in amch…

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POC: Carefully exposing information without authentication

Greg Sabino Mullane posted a rebased patch introducing a new GUC `expose_information` that allows PostgreSQL to respond to plain HTTP GET/HEAD requests on its normal port without…

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Adding basic NUMA awareness

Greg Burd ran a three-way benchmark comparing master, a NUMA-aware partitioned shared_buffers patchset (V+W), and V+W plus batched clock-sweep claiming, on 2-node and 6-node hardw…

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Do we want to avoid checksumming extra files in the datadir? [was: BUG #19647]

Jacob Champion posted a v2 patch for pg_checksums that moves parse_filename_for_nontemp_relation() into common/relfile.c for broader reuse. The fix addresses a bug where pg_checks…

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Industry News

Salesforce and Nvidia Launch Joint Reasoning Model "Salesforce Koa" for Enterprise AI

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Salesforce and Nvidia Launch Joint Reasoning Model "Salesforce Koa" for Enterprise AI

Salesforce and Nvidia have jointly unveiled a new reasoning model called Salesforce Koa, built on Nvidia's open-weight Nemotron model. The system is specifically trained to handle…

AI Safety Startup AIUC Raises $40M Series A to Control Rogue AI Agents

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AI Safety Startup AIUC Raises $40M Series A to Control Rogue AI Agents

Artificial Intelligence Underwriting Company (AIUC), founded by an early Anthropic hire and the former COO of METR, has raised $40 million in a Series A funding round led by Ribbi…

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Hold Weeks of AI Safety Talks

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OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Hold Weeks of AI Safety Talks

OpenAI has confirmed that it, along with Anthropic and Google DeepMind, has been engaged in weeks of discussions focused on AI safety. The talks come as the Trump administration r…

Social Media Updates

Scalefield 1.30.0 is here!

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Scalefield 1.30.0 is here!

Scalefield 1.30.0 introduces several improvements for managing PostgreSQL and CYPEX services. Users can now start and stop PostgreSQL services directly from the Overview tab to re…

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pgwatch v6.0.0 is out!

pgwatch v6.0.0 has been released with several performance and feature improvements. Memory usage is reduced by up to 30%, and heap allocations by up to 40%. The release adds suppo…

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