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Andre Landgraf

Claimable Neon: Provisioned by agents, claimed by humans

Neon has introduced "Claimable Neon," a feature allowing AI agents to provision temporary Neon database projects without requiring account creation or payment details upfront. It…

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PostgreSQL vs Oracle: An enterprise evaluation

PostgreSQL has grown into a serious enterprise database contender, challenging the long-held assumption that Oracle was the only viable choice for critical workloads. Organization…

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PostgreSQL Migrator 1.0 : first stable release

PostgreSQL Migrator 1.0, developed by Dalibo, is now stable. It is a free, open-source tool for migrating databases from Oracle (11g through 26ai) and MySQL 8.4+/MariaDB 10+ to Po…

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pg_vault_tde v1.7.1 : Transparent Data Encryption for PostgreSQL 17 and 18

pg_vault_tde v1.7.1 is a Transparent Data Encryption extension for PostgreSQL 17 and 18. It uses the encrypted_heap table access method to encrypt tuples with AES-256-GCM at the s…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

Reduce WAL volume for heap tuple hint bits

The discussion concerns a patch aimed at reducing WAL volume for heap tuple hint bits. The patch's scope was questioned as being very narrow. Matthias expressed concern that commi…

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Should the WAIT FOR command tag be "WAIT" or "WAIT FOR"?

The discussion concerns whether the command tag for the new `WAIT FOR` SQL command should be `"WAIT"` or `"WAIT FOR"`. Masahiko Sawada raised the question since command tags canno…

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Trying to break online checksums with LLMs

The thread discusses LLM-assisted (Claude and GPT) code review of PostgreSQL's online checksums feature. Robert Haas reports several issues found: a typo in patch 0003's commit me…

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Two issues leading to discrepancies in FSM data on the standby server

The thread addresses two issues causing FSM (Free Space Map) data discrepancies on standby servers. Alexander Korotkov pushed a revert (patch 0001) that removes a problematic chan…

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Implement waiting for wal lsn replay: reloaded

The thread discusses a patch series implementing WAL LSN replay waiting in PostgreSQL. Alexander Korotkov revised patch 0001 with several improvements: clarifying documentation ar…

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Proposal to allow setting cursor options on Portals

The discussion concerns a proposal to allow cursor options (SCROLL, HOLD, etc.) to be set on Portals via the extended query protocol. Sehrope Sarkuni reviewed patch v5 (split into…

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Anthropic Details Distillation Attacks from Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek

Anthropic has released a report alleging persistent model distillation attacks by China-based AI companies, including Alibaba, Moonshot AI, and DeepSeek. The report claims these c…

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OpenAI Pauses Pro Subscriptions Due to Surging Astra Demand

OpenAI has temporarily halted new Pro subscription sign-ups, citing the strain that Pro users place on its systems amid surging demand for Astra. The company said Pro subscription…

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Bending Spoons to Acquire Miro for $1.36B, a 90% Drop from 2022 Valuation

Bending Spoons has agreed to acquire workplace collaboration platform Miro for $1.36 billion, representing a dramatic decline from Miro's peak valuation of $17.5 billion in late 2…

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pgconfigurator has been rebuilt, and it does a lot more than configuration now.

pgconfigurator has been rebuilt with significantly expanded capabilities beyond basic PostgreSQL configuration. The tool now covers performance tuning, slow query diagnosis, and s…

91% of enterprises already run two or more AI coding tools.

A survey finds 91% of enterprises use two or more AI coding tools, making tool sprawl a growing challenge. The real difficulty lies in managing this expanding set of tools without…

The Replit -Databricks integration is now generally available, with new native Lakebase support!

The Replit and Databricks integration is now generally available, introducing native Lakebase support. Users can build full-stack Databricks Apps on live, governed enterprise data…

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