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Oracle data migration tools: What enterprises should consider

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Oracle data migration tools: What enterprises should consider

Enterprises migrating from Oracle face a fragmented tooling landscape spanning Oracle's own utilities, cloud-vendor migration services, open-source converters, and third-party rep…

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Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed Timescaledb Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options

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Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed Timescaledb Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options

Tiger Data's Tiger Cloud offers fully-managed TimescaleDB on Azure, positioning itself against self-hosting and third-party managed options. Azure PostgreSQL Flexible Server only…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

Crashes on a partition whose concurrent detach never finished

Mihail Nikalayeu reported crashes caused by an incomplete `DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY` operation. When interrupted, the partition retains its mark in `pg_class` (`relispart…

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Stabilize recovery conflict stats checks in 031_recovery_conflict.pl

The discussion concerns stabilizing flaky tests in `031_recovery_conflict.pl`. Fujii Masao pushed a patch (reviewed by Ayush Tiwari and Nazir Bilal Yavuz) fixing a stats-polling r…

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PGQ catalog representation and pg_dump support

The discussion centers on numerous critical bugs discovered in the PGQ (SQL/PGQ property graph) feature recently committed to PostgreSQL. Issues include: incorrect locking in `rew…

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

A patch (v15) is under review that ensures replication slots are released on error in SQL-callable slot functions. The discussion focuses on handling slots held across subtransact…

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Fix a typo in EnableLogicalDecoding()

Surya Poondla submitted v3 of a patch fixing a typo in `EnableLogicalDecoding()`, building on v2 contributed by Chao, Shihao, and Michael. The main addition in v3 is a comment rew…

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Remove fcinfo from statistics update internal functions

The discussion concerns refactoring statistics import/restore internal functions to remove fcinfo-based argument passing. Michael Paquier favors replacing numerous positional para…

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Industry News

OpenAI Launches Astra, a New Powerful and Controversial AI Model

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OpenAI Launches Astra, a New Powerful and Controversial AI Model

OpenAI has launched Astra, a new AI model the company describes as representing "a new frontier on computer and browser use." OpenAI claims Astra handles tasks with unmatched "spe…

Nvidia Confirms $12.9 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face

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Nvidia Confirms $12.9 Billion Acquisition of Hugging Face

Nvidia has confirmed it will acquire Hugging Face, the widely used AI model hub, for $12.9 billion. Nvidia highlighted that Hugging Face hosts over 3 million models and serves mor…

Accel Reportedly in Talks to Lead $1B Funding Round for Thinking Machines at $40B Valuation

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Accel Reportedly in Talks to Lead $1B Funding Round for Thinking Machines at $40B Valuation

Accel is reportedly in talks to lead a $1 billion funding round for AI startup Thinking Machines, which would value the company at $40 billion. The high-profile startup has alread…

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This training offers you a comprehensive introduction to the use of PostgreSQL, learning basic and advanced concepts from installation and architecture to high-availability setups and performance tuning.

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This training offers you a comprehensive introduction to the use of PostgreSQL, learning basic and advanced concepts from installation and architecture to high-availability setups and performance tuning.

A PostgreSQL training course is scheduled from September 7 to 11, running daily from 9:00 to 14:00 CEST. The course covers a broad range of topics, starting from installation and…

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PGDay UK 2026 is next Tuesday and Hans-Juergen Schoenig , Mat Godolphin , and David Sangha will all be there!

PGDay UK 2026 is taking place next Tuesday. Hans-Juergen Schoenig, Mat Godolphin, and David Sangha will all be attending the event. Those who are going are encouraged to stop by a…

What if documents, images, audio, and video could behave like any other column in your lakehouse?

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What if documents, images, audio, and video could behave like any other column in your lakehouse?

A new FILE type aims to make unstructured data, such as documents, images, audio, and video, a native part of lakehouse tables. Teams can query and process multimodal data while a…

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