PGNexus Daily News #151 2026-05-18
PGNexus Daily News PostgreSQL Technical Articles [image: From Stream Processing to the "PostgreSQL Village": A Marketer's Journey to PGConf.de] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com%...> Elvira Szabo From Stream Processing to the "PostgreSQL Village": A Marketer's Journey to PGConf.de <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com%...> A marketer with Apache Flink experience shares insights from attending PGConf.de 2026, her first PostgreSQL conference. She compares the PostgreSQL community to Apache Flink, noti… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cybertec-postgresql.com%...> [image: From VMs to Kubernetes: A DBA's Journey in a Large Global Bank] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fvm...> enterprisedb.com From VMs to Kubernetes: A DBA's Journey in a Large Global Bank <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fvm...> A major global financial institution successfully migrated their PostgreSQL database operations from traditional virtual machines to a Kubernetes-native architecture. This transfo… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fvm...> [image: Not All Open Source Is Equal: Choosing a PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes in 2026] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fnot...> Slava Sarzhan Not All Open Source Is Equal: Choosing a PostgreSQL Operator for Kubernetes in 2026 <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fnot...> The open-source landscape for PostgreSQL Kubernetes operators has shifted dramatically, with many projects implementing licensing restrictions that limit practical usage. MinIO ar… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.percona.com%2Fblog%2Fnot...> [image: Online WAL level change for logical decoding in PostgreSQL 19] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com%...> Shveta Malik Online WAL level change for logical decoding in PostgreSQL 19 <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com%...> PostgreSQL 19 introduces the ability to change WAL levels online without requiring a system restart, specifically benefiting logical decoding operations. Previously, enabling logi… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com%...> PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights Adding REPACK [concurrently] <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20REPACK%20%5Bconcurren...> Alvaro Herrera acknowledges Amit Kapila's concerns about the db-specific snapshots patch for concurrent REPACK functionality. Amit had argued that the logical decoding mechanism i… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20REPACK%20%5Bconcurren...> Implement waiting for wal lsn replay: reloaded <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Implement%20waiting%20for%20wa...> Alexander Lakhin reports a new test failure in the recovery test suite that appears to be caused by the recently committed "WAIT FOR LSN" feature implementation. The failure occur… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Implement%20waiting%20for%20wa...> Industry News [image: Google Search as you know it is over] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2F...> techcrunch.com Google Search as you know it is over <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2F...> Google is fundamentally transforming its Search product from a traditional list of links into an AI-powered experience centered on conversational answers, autonomous agents, and i… [image: OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2F...> techcrunch.com OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy joins Anthropic's pre-training team <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2F...> Andrej Karpathy, a co-founder of OpenAI and prominent AI researcher, has joined Anthropic to work on its pre-training team. Pre-training is the phase responsible for large-scale t… [image: Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2F...> techcrunch.com Hackers have compromised dozens of popular open source packages <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F05%2F...> Dozens of popular open source software packages have been compromised in an ongoing supply-chain attack campaign known as Mini Shai-Hulud. The attackers have successfully infiltra… Social Media Updates [image: Everyone wants to hear about disasters and war stories!] <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> linkedin Everyone wants to hear about disasters and war stories! <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> A presentation by Ants Aasma, Henrietta Dombrovskaya, and Pavlo Golub about disasters and war stories drew a packed audience with standing room only attendance. 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A live demonstration… [image: What does the PostgreSQL community look like through fresh eyes?] <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> linkedin What does the PostgreSQL community look like through fresh eyes? <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> Elvira Edina Szabo, who recently joined CYBERTEC from the Apache Flink ecosystem, attended her first PostgreSQL conference at PGConf.de 2026. Coming from a different open-source b… Want to stay up to date with the PostgreSQL community and industry news? Visit PGNexus <https://pgnexus.ai> to learn more
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