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Too many tables are bad for you

Laurenz Albe

Too many tables are bad for you

A PostgreSQL database containing tens of thousands of tables can cause two serious problems: excessive memory usage and slow metadata queries. Each long-lived connection accumulat…

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Your Database Goes Down. What Does That Cost Your Business?

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Your Database Goes Down. What Does That Cost Your Business?

EDB's blog post highlights that over 90% of mid-size and large enterprises report hourly downtime costs exceeding $300,000, yet high availability is often treated as a routine inf…

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The Oracle Renewal Is Coming. This Time, There’s a Way Out.

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The Oracle Renewal Is Coming. This Time, There’s a Way Out.

EDB is promoting a migration path away from Oracle for organizations facing contract renewals, rising cloud costs, or stalled migration projects. The post positions PostgreSQL (vi…

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One Dashboard to Rule Them All — and Finally Get Your Fridays Back

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One Dashboard to Rule Them All — and Finally Get Your Fridays Back

EDB has introduced a unified control plane for managing PostgreSQL deployments across on-premises, multi-cloud, and hybrid environments. The platform, EDB Postgres AI, aims to con…

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Your Database Should Be Working While You Sleep

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Your Database Should Be Working While You Sleep

EDB Agentic Database is presented as a solution to the reactive, around-the-clock operational burden faced by teams managing PostgreSQL at scale. The piece describes the common sc…

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Inside the Agentic Database: How EDB Turned Postgres Into a Self-Managing System

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Inside the Agentic Database: How EDB Turned Postgres Into a Self-Managing System

EDB has introduced what it calls the "Agentic Database," an autonomous management system embedded directly into PostgreSQL rather than implemented as an external service. The syst…

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The Architecture IS the Security: Building Sovereign AI Ops on Postgres with EDB Agent Factory

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The Architecture IS the Security: Building Sovereign AI Ops on Postgres with EDB Agent Factory

EDB Agent Factory presents an architecture for AI-driven database incident response where all components run within a single PostgreSQL cluster. The stack combines pgvector for re…

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Community Docker Images: keeping the operator open without a vendor registry lock-in

Slava Sarzhan

Community Docker Images: keeping the operator open without a vendor registry lock-in

Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.0.0 introduces Community PostgreSQL Images, allowing users to run the operator against container images built from official PostgreSQL packages s…

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Closing a critical gap in PostgreSQL upgrade workflows with sequence synchronization

Vigneshwaran C

Closing a critical gap in PostgreSQL upgrade workflows with sequence synchronization

PostgreSQL 19 introduces improvements to upgrade workflows using pg_upgrade and pg_createsubscriber, enabling near-zero-downtime upgrades by converting physical replicas into logi…

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How Float Runs an AI Energy Company on a 3-Person Team with Tiger Data

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How Float Runs an AI Energy Company on a 3-Person Team with Tiger Data

Danish startup Float collects 1Hz smart meter data from hundreds of homes and uses a proprietary ML model to disaggregate total household load into per-appliance consumption. The…

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PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights

WAL compression setting after PostgreSQL LZ4 default change

The discussion proposes aligning `wal_compression = on` with the recent change that made lz4 the default TOAST compression method in PostgreSQL when LZ4 support is available. Curr…

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

A GSoC 2026 contributor (Salma El-Sayed) proposes a new design for B-tree page merges in nbtree to reduce index bloat. The design repurposes the BTP_MERGED_AWAY flag—rather than u…

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Add pg_stat_kind_info system view

The discussion concerns adding a new `pg_stat_kind_info` system view to expose metadata about PostgreSQL cumulative statistics kinds. A key concern raised is that the implementati…

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DDL deparse

The discussion focuses on DDL deparse for logical replication, particularly how DDL commands should be formatted for external clients. Vitaly Davydov argues that simpler, decompos…

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bump minimum supported version of psql and pg_{dump,dumpall,upgrade} to v10

The discussion concerns a patch series to raise the minimum supported old-cluster/server version for psql, pg_dump, pg_dumpall, and pg_upgrade from v9.2 to v10. Fujii Masao review…

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GetBufferDescriptor() being called for local buffers from MarkBufferDirtyHint()

Ayush Tiwari is working on a patch to make buffer descriptor accessors (`GetBufferDescriptor()` and `GetLocalBufferDescriptor()`) accept signed indexes and include range assertion…

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Industry News

Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper alternative for AI agents

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Anthropic launches Claude Sonnet 5 as a cheaper alternative for AI agents

Anthropic has launched Claude Sonnet 5, a new model designed to offer stronger agentic capabilities at a lower price point. The release positions Claude Sonnet 5 as a more cost-ef…

Nvidia rival Etched reaches $5B valuation with $1B in contracted AI chip sales

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Nvidia rival Etched reaches $5B valuation with $1B in contracted AI chip sales

AI chip startup Etched, a competitor to Nvidia, has announced it has reached a $5 billion valuation and already secured $1 billion in contracted sales for inference systems powere…

Amazon launches $1B Field Deployment Engineering org to embed AI agents at enterprises

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Amazon launches $1B Field Deployment Engineering org to embed AI agents at enterprises

Amazon has launched a new $1 billion Field Deployment Engineering (FDE) organization, following similar moves by OpenAI and Anthropic. Engineers on the new team will embed directl…

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We've posted a video of Jonathan Katz and Melanie Plageman delivering the Opening & Commemorative Poster Giveaway

A video has been posted of Jonathan Katz and Melanie Plageman presenting the Opening session and Commemorative Poster Giveaway at PGConf Dev. The recording is available via the pr…

Almost every Postgres team I talk to runs into the same storage wall.

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Almost every Postgres team I talk to runs into the same storage wall.

Most Postgres teams face the same problem: databases grow indefinitely, old data cannot be deleted for legal reasons, and storage costs keep rising. pgEdge built ColdFront to addr…

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Come take a stroll with CYBERTEC's Raj Verma - A first-person look at the sights, sounds, and energy of the GITEX AI EUROPE floor on day 1

Raj Verma from CYBERTEC offers a first-person walkthrough of the GITEX AI EUROPE exhibition floor on its opening day. The video or post captures the atmosphere, sights, and energy…

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