PGNexus Daily News PostgreSQL Technical Articles [image: Loongson loong64 packages on apt.postgresql.org] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fabout%2...> www.postgresql.org Loongson loong64 packages on apt.postgresql.org <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fabout%2...> PostgreSQL packages for the Loongson loong64 architecture are now available on apt.postgresql.org. This Chinese processor architecture is supported via a build host running on a L… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.org%2Fabout%2...> PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights Checkpointer write combining <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Checkpointer%20write%20combini...> Melanie Plageman posted v16 of the checkpointer write-combining patch series, responding to reviews from Andrey Borodin and Haibo Yan. 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Key debate involves whether conflicting specifications—such as excl… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Support%20EXCEPT%20for%20TABLE...> hashjoins vs. Bloom filters (yet again) <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=hashjoins%20vs.%20Bloom%20filt...> The thread centers on Tomas Vondra's survey of how other databases (DuckDB, ClickHouse, Spark, Trino, Impala, Hive) implement runtime/dynamic/join filters, finding three common fi… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=hashjoins%20vs.%20Bloom%20filt...> One more bit of PL/Perl cleanup <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=One%20more%20bit%20of%20PL%2FP...> Tom Lane identified redundant checks in PL/Perl code where `SvOK(sv) && SvROK(sv)` is tested together. Examining Perl's `sv.h`, he confirmed that `SVf_ROK` is a subset of the flag… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=One%20more%20bit%20of%20PL%2FP...> Report index currently being vacuumed in pg_stat_progress_vacuum <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Report%20index%20currently%20b...> The discussion concerns how to expose parallel vacuum worker information in `pg_stat_progress_vacuum`. Bharath Rupireddy had proposed position-aligned arrays for index OIDs and wo… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Report%20index%20currently%20b...> Residual cleanups for tied objects in PL/Perl <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Residual%20cleanups%20for%20ti...> A patch addressing residual cleanups for tied objects in PL/Perl has been committed. 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