PGNexus Daily News PostgreSQL Technical Articles [image: WAL + S3: Lakebase storage for the era of agents] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fwal-s3-lak...> Carlota Soto WAL + S3: Lakebase storage for the era of agents <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fwal-s3-lak...> Neon's blog post argues that traditional OLTP database infrastructure is unnecessarily heavy and friction-prone, but that this is largely an infrastructure problem rather than a P… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Fwal-s3-lak...> PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights Add bms_offset_members() function for bitshifting Bitmapsets <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20bms_offset_members()%20f...> David Rowley pushed fixes for `test_random_offset_operations()` after Greg Burd reviewed and tested the v1 patch for the `bms_offset_members()` function, which provides bitshiftin… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20bms_offset_members()%20f...> Thread-safe stringToNode() / pg_strtok() <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Thread-safe%20stringToNode()%2...> The thread concludes work on making `stringToNode()` and `pg_strtok()` thread-safe. Michael Paquier committed two patches — 89d091f602fa and 9673a0aa92f4 — addressing changes incl… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Thread-safe%20stringToNode()%2...> [PATCH] Release replication slot on error in SQL-callable slot functions <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20replic...> The discussion focuses on how to safely handle temporary replication slots during sub-transaction abort in PostgreSQL. Masahiko Sawada raised concerns about whether dropping all t… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20replic...> tablecmds: fix bug where index rebuild loses replica identity on partitions <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=tablecmds%3A%20fix%20bug%20whe...> The discussion centers on fixing a bug where `ALTER COLUMN TYPE` causes index rebuilds that lose properties on partition leaf indexes. Melanie Plageman reviewed patch v13 (by Chao… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=tablecmds%3A%20fix%20bug%20whe...> MERGE/SPLIT PARTITIONS issues/questions <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=MERGE%2FSPLIT%20PARTITIONS%20i...> The discussion concerns the `ALTER TABLE MERGE/SPLIT PARTITIONS` feature committed to PostgreSQL 19. Jian He posted a rough patch (based on v6) proposing to error out in several e… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=MERGE%2FSPLIT%20PARTITIONS%20i...> problems with toast.* reloptions <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=problems%20with%20toast.*%20re...> The thread discusses problems with `toast.*` reloptions in PostgreSQL. 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