PGNexus Daily News PostgreSQL Technical Articles [image: Enforcing TLS and managing certificate rotation for RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fblogs%2Fdat...> Stefano D'Alessio Enforcing TLS and managing certificate rotation for RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fblogs%2Fdat...> This AWS blog post explains how to enforce TLS and manage certificate rotation for Amazon RDS and Aurora PostgreSQL. Key steps include enabling rds.force_ssl=1 to block unencrypte… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Faws.amazon.com%2Fblogs%2Fdat...> [image: Electric is joining team Neon at Databricks] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Felectric-j...> Nikita Shamgunov Electric is joining team Neon at Databricks <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Felectric-j...> Electric, the team behind PGlite and the Electric sync engine, is joining Neon within Databricks following Databricks' acquisition announcement. The move brings Electric's core te… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fneon.com%2Fblog%2Felectric-j...> [image: Multi-Region PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery and Failback with Crunchy PGO] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com%...> Wellingtone Luvonga Multi-Region PostgreSQL Disaster Recovery and Failback with Crunchy PGO <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com%...> This guide details a complete multi-region disaster recovery and failback workflow for PostgreSQL using Crunchy PGO (PostgreSQL Operator) on Kubernetes with MinIO as the WAL archi… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com%...> PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights Proposal: Conflict log history table for Logical Replication <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Proposal%3A%20Conflict%20log%2...> The discussion focuses on the conflict log table (CLT) for logical replication. Key decisions include: (1) only LOG-level (resolved) conflicts are stored in the CLT, while ERROR-l… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Proposal%3A%20Conflict%20log%2...> Restructured Shared Buffer Hash Table <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Restructured%20Shared%20Buffer...> The discussion centers on a patch from Databricks (Dhruv Aron) proposing a specialized hash table for shared buffer lookups, replacing the existing dynahash structure with two fla… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Restructured%20Shared%20Buffer...> problems with toast.* reloptions <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=problems%20with%20toast.*%20re...> The thread addresses bugs in how TOAST table reloptions (particularly autovacuum parameters) are inherited and merged. Nathan Bossart submitted a new v8 patch set (0005–0007): 000… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=problems%20with%20toast.*%20re...> [PATCH] bufmgr: tighten LWLock:BufferMapping on InvalidateBuffer <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20bufmgr%3A%20tigh...> Alexandre Felipe proposed a patch to reduce partition LWLock hold time in `InvalidateBuffer` and `InvalidateVictimBuffer`, arguing that the partition lock causes more contention t… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20bufmgr%3A%20tigh...> Crash issue in PG18.5 regression <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Crash%20issue%20in%20PG18.5%20...> A crash was reported in PG18.5 when running `SELECT to_date('01 ŞUB 2010', 'DD TMMON YYYY')` on a C-locale instance (UTF8 encoding). Masashi Kamura identified commit 011384ba45f a… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Crash%20issue%20in%20PG18.5%20...> CREATE INDEX vs. TOAST table stats <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=CREATE%20INDEX%20vs.%20TOAST%2...> Commit d611f8b158 modified `CREATE INDEX` to skip updating table stats when autovacuum is off, preserving restored stats. It included `RELKIND_TOASTVALUE` in the affected relkinds… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=CREATE%20INDEX%20vs.%20TOAST%2...> Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights <https://pgnexus.ai/daily-updates?file=2026-08-11-postgresql-daily-news-235.m...> Industry News [image: General Catalyst Leads $1.1B Funding Round into 2-Month-Old River AI] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F...> techcrunch.com General Catalyst Leads $1.1B Funding Round into 2-Month-Old River AI <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F...> River AI, a startup founded by xAI co-founder Igor Babuschkin, has raised $1.1 billion in a funding round led by General Catalyst, just two months after its founding. The company… [image: OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap Departing to Launch New Venture] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F...> techcrunch.com OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap Departing to Launch New Venture <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F...> Brad Lightcap, one of OpenAI's longest-serving executives and its Chief Operating Officer, is leaving the company to start a new venture. In a message to staff, Lightcap expressed… [image: Anthropic to Watermark Text Generated by Its AI Models] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F...> techcrunch.com Anthropic to Watermark Text Generated by Its AI Models <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F08%2F...> Anthropic has announced it will introduce watermarking for text generated by its AI models, including extending support to older models in its lineup. The move is aimed at improvi… Social Media Updates [image: Our CEO Hans-Juergen Schoenig recently wrote a blog that talks about data lineage in PostgreSQL 19: how SQL/PGQ lets you store lineage as data, in tables, queryable, and a lot more interesting tid-bits.] <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> linkedin Our CEO Hans-Juergen Schoenig recently wrote a blog that talks about data lineage in PostgreSQL 19: how SQL/PGQ lets you store lineage as data, in tables, queryable, and a lot more interesting tid-bits. <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> CEO Hans-Juergen Schoenig has published a blog post exploring data lineage in PostgreSQL 19. The post focuses on how SQL/PGQ enables storing lineage information directly as data w… [image: We're excited to announce that Electric, the makers of PGlite, is joining Databricks to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes.] <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> linkedin We're excited to announce that Electric, the makers of PGlite, is joining Databricks to bring WASM Postgres to AI agent sandboxes. <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> Electric, the company behind PGlite, is joining Databricks. Traditional cloud services were designed for static applications and are ill-suited for AI agents that make runtime dec… Want to stay up to date with the PostgreSQL community and industry news? Visit PGNexus <https://pgnexus.ai> to learn more