PostgreSQL Technical Articles

Anthony Giuliano

The Neon CLI has added a new `neon api` command designed to address two problems: the CLI's human-oriented design often lags behind the full capabilities of the underlying API, an…

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EDB heads to PGConf.Brasil 2026, this is what we’ll be talking about!

EDB will participate in PGConf.Brasil 2026, held in Blumenau from September 2–4. The company will deliver 13 sessions at the conference. No further technical details about session…

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Timothy Steward

Why enterprises outgrow relational databases

Enterprises are not abandoning relational databases, but many are questioning whether their current database platforms can handle modern demands. Key pressures include faster inno…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

Proposal: new file format for hba/ident/hosts configuration?

The thread discusses a proposal by Zsolt Parragi to replace PostgreSQL's pg_hba.conf, pg_ident.conf, and related files with a new structured format. TOML and JSON5 are the main ca…

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pg_dump: use threads for parallel workers on all platforms

Bryan Green has reworked a patch series to replace pg_dump's parallel worker model with a unified thread-based approach across all platforms. Patches 0001–0002 are Windows-only st…

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Introduce XID age based replication slot invalidation

The discussion focuses on how autovacuum should handle XID-age-based replication slot invalidation when a slot is still held by an active process. Three approaches were considered…

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SQL/JSON json_table plan clause

Thom Brown tested the recently committed SQL/JSON `JSON_TABLE` PLAN clause patch and identified several bugs. First, a missing catalog version bump was noted since new fields were…

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pg_buffercache: Add per-relation summary stats

The discussion concerns adding a `pg_buffercache_relations()` function to the `pg_buffercache` extension for per-relation buffer cache aggregation. Khoa Nguyen reported a ~25x spe…

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Handle concurrent drop when doing whole database vacuum

The discussion centers on a patch (v8) to handle concurrent table drops during a whole-database VACUUM. The key issue is preventing unprivileged users from acquiring strong locks…

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Ollama Raises $65M, Grows to Nearly 9 Million Users

Ollama, a popular open-source AI developer tool backed by Benchmark, has raised $65 million in funding. The platform, which helps developers easily run AI models on their personal…

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New York Times Accuses OpenAI of Hiding Evidence in ChatGPT Copyright Trial

The New York Times and other news publishers have escalated their copyright lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging the company concealed tools and datasets that could identify copyright…

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Meta Enters AI Coding Market with Muse Spark 1.1

Meta has launched Muse Spark 1.1, its entry into the competitive AI coding assistant market. The tool is designed to handle large agentic workloads, fix bugs, and assist with larg…

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Most enterprise compliance platforms were built for a world that no longer exists.

CYBERTEC's Scalefield Secure is positioned as a modern alternative to legacy enterprise compliance platforms that rely on per-core licensing, lengthy rollouts, and proprietary dat…

Premier Inc.

Premier Inc., which serves two out of every three U.S. healthcare providers, migrated to Databricks SQL to modernize its fragmented healthcare data ecosystem. By consolidating dat…

"The attackers are now hyper-automated with agents and large language models that can find vulnerabilities that haven't yet been found by the people who wrote the software." Databricks' Andrew K.

Databricks' Andrew K. and NAB's Patrick Wright spoke with SiliconANGLE and theCUBE about cybersecurity in the AI era. They noted that attackers now use AI agents and large languag…

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