PGNexus Daily News PostgreSQL Technical Articles [image: Oracle data migration tools: What enterprises should consider] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com%...> Fujitsu Oracle data migration tools: What enterprises should consider <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com%...> 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… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.postgresql.fastware.com%...> [image: Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed Timescaledb Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2Ft...> Nicole Ghalwash Tiger Cloud on Azure: Why Fully-Managed Timescaledb Beats Self-Hosting And Other Managed Options <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2Ft...> 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… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2Ft...> PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights Crashes on a partition whose concurrent detach never finished <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Crashes%20on%20a%20partition%2...> Mihail Nikalayeu reported crashes caused by an incomplete `DETACH PARTITION ... CONCURRENTLY` operation. When interrupted, the partition retains its mark in `pg_class` (`relispart… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Crashes%20on%20a%20partition%2...> Stabilize recovery conflict stats checks in 031_recovery_conflict.pl <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Stabilize%20recovery%20conflic...> 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… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Stabilize%20recovery%20conflic...> PGQ catalog representation and pg_dump support <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=PGQ%20catalog%20representation...> 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… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=PGQ%20catalog%20representation...> [PATCH] Release replication slot on error in SQL-callable slot functions <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20replic...> 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… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=%5BPATCH%5D%20Release%20replic...> Fix a typo in EnableLogicalDecoding() <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Fix%20a%20typo%20in%20EnableLo...> 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… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Fix%20a%20typo%20in%20EnableLo...> Remove fcinfo from statistics update internal functions <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Remove%20fcinfo%20from%20stati...> The discussion concerns refactoring statistics import/restore internal functions to remove fcinfo-based argument passing. 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