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Meeting in Montreal: Developer U plan(ner) patches

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Meeting in Montreal: Developer U plan(ner) patches

A group of promising PostgreSQL developers participating in EDB's internal development program met in person in Montreal for the third time. The blog post summarizes the topics di…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

Don't use the deprecated and insecure PQcancel in our frontend tools anymore

Jelte Fennema-Nio posted v8 of a patch series to replace the deprecated and insecure PQcancel in frontend tools. The first two commits simplify existing cancellation logic and are…

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Row pattern recognition

The discussion focuses on the Row Pattern Recognition (RPR) feature for PostgreSQL. Jian He submitted v50 patches refactoring how navigation offsets are evaluated: instead of reso…

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A few message wording/formatting cleanup patches

Peter Eisentraut committed a patch series related to message wording and formatting cleanup in PostgreSQL. The discussion involved cosmetic improvements suggested by Ashutosh Bapa…

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[PATCH] Fix for bug #19474: LIKE fails to match literal backslashes with nondeterministic collations

The patch (v3) aims to fix bug #19474, where LIKE fails to match literal backslashes under nondeterministic collations. Tom Lane reviewed the latest version and concluded it is no…

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uuidv7 improperly accepts dates before 1970-01-01

The thread addresses a bug where `uuidv7` improperly accepted timestamps before 1970-01-01. Baji Shaik submitted v4 of the patch, incorporating Masahiko Sawada's review feedback:…

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[GSoC 2026] - B-tree Index Bloat Reduction - Approach & Questions

Andrey Borodin responds to a GSoC 2026 proposal for B-tree index bloat reduction, offering two design simplifications. First, he argues that forward-scan deduplication after a pag…

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Industry News

Anthropic Discusses Custom AI Chip Development with Samsung

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Anthropic Discusses Custom AI Chip Development with Samsung

Anthropic is in discussions with Samsung to develop a new custom AI chip, according to a TechCrunch report. The news follows OpenAI's recent announcement of its own custom AI chip…
Mark Zuckerberg Tells Staff Meta's AI Agents Progressing Slower Than Expected

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Mark Zuckerberg Tells Staff Meta's AI Agents Progressing Slower Than Expected

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg reportedly told employees at an internal meeting that the company's AI agent development has not advanced as quickly as he had hoped. The candid admission…

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Data checksums have been in Postgres since version 9.3.

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Data checksums have been in Postgres since version 9.3.

Postgres has supported data checksums since version 9.3 in 2013, yet many production clusters still run without them. The main barrier was the enablement process: it required a fu…

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We believe the world is static.

CYBERTEC CEO Hans-Juergen Schoenig spoke at GITEX AI EUROPE about the growing instability shaping today's business environment. He highlighted geopolitics, cyber risk, and supply…

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Addepar , which supports nearly $9 trillion in assets on its platform, is using Databricks to unify data, analytics, and AI across its infrastructure.

Addepar, a platform managing nearly $9 trillion in assets, has standardized on Databricks to unify its data, analytics, and AI infrastructure. This foundation supports Addison, Ad…

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