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Building Neon Object Storage

Carlota Soto

Building Neon Object Storage

Neon has launched Neon Object Storage, an S3-compatible object store integrated directly into the Neon backend. It is designed to be branch-aware, meaning it follows the same bran…

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CYBERTEC and Meniko Data Solutions Announce Strategic Partnership

Bilal Ibrar

CYBERTEC and Meniko Data Solutions Announce Strategic Partnership

CYBERTEC PostgreSQL International GmbH and Meniko Data Solutions have announced a strategic partnership to deliver enterprise PostgreSQL solutions in Mauritius. Through Meniko's r…

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How ControlCom Turns 300+ Million Monthly Facility Data Points Into Instant Answers With Tiger Data

Andrew Stebbins

How ControlCom Turns 300+ Million Monthly Facility Data Points Into Instant Answers With Tiger Data

ControlCom Connect, built by a six-person team, streams telemetry from thousands of industrial facility assets into TimescaleDB, processing over 300 million data points monthly. T…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

[PATCH] vacuum: stop using stream ring after failsafe

The discussion concerns a patch to stop vacuum from using the stream ring buffer access strategy after entering failsafe mode. Melanie Plageman initially proposed saving IOContext…

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Optimize UUID parse using SIMD

Masahiko Sawada proposed optimizing UUID parsing by reusing the SIMD-aware hex_decode_safe() in the UUID input function. Earlier review by Haibo Yan identified that hex_decode_saf…

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problems with toast.* reloptions

A discussion about problems with toast.* reloptions, involving Nathan Bossart, Michael Paquier, and others. After solai v reported no issues during testing of an earlier patch, Na…

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Credits For v19

Corey Huinker is developing an automated system to generate contributor credits for PostgreSQL v19, cross-referencing past release credits and mailing list name/email pairs. He sh…

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[PATCH] Release replication slot on error in SQL-callable slot functions

The thread discusses a patch to properly release replication slots on error in SQL-callable slot functions, addressing a bug reproducible since PG14 that can cause slot leaks and…

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Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication

The discussion centers on the proposed `pg_conflict_history` table for logical replication. Masahiko Sawada raised a consistency problem: LOG-level conflict rows inserted within t…

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Industry News

Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers

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Hacker pleads guilty to stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers

Connor Moucka has pleaded guilty to hacking and stealing data from more than 165 Snowflake customers, netting him and his accomplices over $2.5 million in ransom payments. The cas…

OpenAI says Apple's own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

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OpenAI says Apple's own security practices undermine its trade secrets case

OpenAI has filed court exhibits outlining its legal defense in Apple's trade secrets lawsuit. OpenAI argues that Apple's own security and offboarding practices are flawed, pointin…

ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

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ChatGPT brings unlimited text chats to free users

OpenAI has announced that ChatGPT free and Go tier users will now have access to unlimited text conversations. In addition, these users are gaining a new "think" button designed t…

Social Media Updates

CYBERTEC and Meniko have entered a strategic partnership to bring enterprise-grade open source PostgreSQL to businesses in the Mauritius region.

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CYBERTEC and Meniko have entered a strategic partnership to bring enterprise-grade open source PostgreSQL to businesses in the Mauritius region.

CYBERTEC and Meniko have formed a strategic partnership aimed at delivering enterprise-grade open source PostgreSQL solutions to businesses in Mauritius. The collaboration combine…

At Black Hat 2026, author and analyst Allie Mellen joined attendees at our booth to discuss the shifts AI has brought to cybersecurity, and what practitioners can learn from it.

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At Black Hat 2026, author and analyst Allie Mellen joined attendees at our booth to discuss the shifts AI has brought to cybersecurity, and what practitioners can learn from it.

At Black Hat 2026, author and analyst Allie Mellen joined Databricks booth attendees to discuss how AI is reshaping cybersecurity. Her newest book, Code War, examines how cyberatt…

Moonshot AI's latest open-weight model, Kimi K3, is now available on Databricks through Unity AI Gateway.

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Moonshot AI's latest open-weight model, Kimi K3, is now available on Databricks through Unity AI Gateway.

Moonshot AI's open-weight model Kimi K3 is now accessible on Databricks via Unity AI Gateway. Users can run Kimi K3 directly within their Lakehouse environment, keeping data gover…

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