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How Castform + Neon Beats Frontier Models on Price and Efficiency

Castform, an AI data pipeline tool, integrates with Neon's serverless PostgreSQL to generate high-quality training datasets directly from existing database content. According to C…

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Fix archive restore race that could unlink WAL before rename

The discussion concerns a race condition in archive restore where a WAL segment could be unlinked before a rename completes. Neil Chen tested the v2 patch and found that the walse…

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postgres_fdw: Use COPY to speed up batch inserts

Matheus Alcantara proposes a new patch for speeding up `postgres_fdw` batch inserts by using the COPY protocol. After off-list discussion with Masahiko, the approach adds a dedica…

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ri_Fast* crash w/ nullable UNIQUE constraint

The thread discusses a bug fix for ri_Fast* crashes with nullable UNIQUE constraints. Ayush Tiwari reviewed Amit Langote's v2 patch series (0001–0006). Patches 0001–0003, 0005, an…

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Revisiting {CREATE INDEX, REINDEX} CONCURRENTLY improvements

Matthias van de Meent provides a partial review of Mihail Nikalayeu's rebased patch series for improving CREATE INDEX / REINDEX CONCURRENTLY. Patch 0001 is skipped. For 0002, issu…

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[PATCH] Rebuild CHECK constraints after generated column SET EXPRESSION

The discussion concerns a patch committed in PG19 to rebuild CHECK constraints after a generated column's SET EXPRESSION. Nathan Bossart questioned whether it should remain on the…

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CREATE OR REPLACE MATERIALIZED VIEW

Paul A Jungwirth, along with Warda Bibi and Khoa Nguyen, reviewed the v8 patch for `CREATE OR REPLACE MATERIALIZED VIEW`. Key issues raised include: a segfault when event triggers…

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Jeff Dean and Other Top AI Researchers Leave Google to Launch AI Startup

Legendary Google executive Jeff Dean, joined by other senior Google researchers, is departing the company to launch an independent AI startup. The venture is focused on using arti…

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Trump's DOJ Gains Oversight of OpenAI's Green-Card Employee Sponsorships

The U.S. Department of Justice under the Trump administration has gained oversight authority over OpenAI's green-card sponsorship program for immigrant employees. The DOJ has alle…

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Anthropic Begins Hiring for Custom AI Chip Design Team

Anthropic, the company behind the Claude AI models, is building a dedicated team to design its own custom AI chips. The company stated it plans to co-design both hardware and AI m…

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Next Tuesday: the engineer who built open-source, transparent hot/cold tiering for PostgreSQL (ColdFront) will be discussing the architecture live.

On August 19 at 8 AM Pacific, the engineers behind ColdFront will host a live session covering the architecture of this open-source hot/cold tiering extension for PostgreSQL. Cold…

Legacy applications get expensive in two directions at once: they need more effort to maintain, and they're harder to change when the business needs something new.

Legacy applications create a double burden: rising maintenance costs and increasing difficulty adapting to new business requirements. CYPEX offers a path forward by migrating appl…

Move from tokenmaxxing to valuemaxxing.

Databricks Co-founder and CTO Matei Zaharia and Product Director Kasey Uhlenhuth will host a live session on August 13 covering Unity AI Gateway, a tool designed to give IT leader…

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