PGNexus Daily News PostgreSQL Technical Articles [image: Meeting EU Data Sovereignty Requirements While Speeding-Up Innovation] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fme...> enterprisedb.com Meeting EU Data Sovereignty Requirements While Speeding-Up Innovation <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fme...> EU data sovereignty has become a board-level priority following the European Commission's June 2026 European Tech Sovereignty package, which encourages organizations—especially in… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fme...> [image: Inside EDB’s New Principles for Responsible AI: Sovereign, Governed, Trusted and Beneficial] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fin...> enterprisedb.com Inside EDB’s New Principles for Responsible AI: Sovereign, Governed, Trusted and Beneficial <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fin...> EDB has updated its Principles for Responsible AI, originally released in 2024, in response to growing enterprise concerns around governance, transparency, security, and data cont… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fenterprisedb.com%2Fblog%2Fin...> [image: Postgres Sorting at Scale Needs More Than ORDER BY] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2Fp...> NanoHertz Communications Postgres Sorting at Scale Needs More Than ORDER BY <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2Fp...> Sorting large PostgreSQL tables by timestamp degrades significantly at scale. A query running in 180ms at 10 million rows can take 4 seconds at 500 million, even with an existing… Read the Blog <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-blogs?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tigerdata.com%2Fblog%2Fp...> PostgreSQL Hackers Email Discussion Highlights Handle concurrent drop when doing whole database vacuum <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Handle%20concurrent%20drop%20w...> The discussion focuses on how whole-database VACUUM handles concurrent relation drops. The patch (v3) fixes the issue by emitting a WARNING when a relation is concurrently dropped… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Handle%20concurrent%20drop%20w...> Small patch to improve safety of utf8_to_unicode(). <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Small%20patch%20to%20improve%2...> Jeff Davis posted v5 of a patch series improving UTF-8 safety in `utf8_to_unicode()`. The series includes: a backportable defensive fix for invalid UTF-8 handling, a logic bug fix… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Small%20patch%20to%20improve%2...> Add MIN/MAX aggregate support for uuid <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20MIN%2FMAX%20aggregate%20...> Tristan Partin proposed adding MIN/MAX aggregate support for the uuid type in PostgreSQL, motivated primarily by the UUIDv7 use case where lexicographic ordering corresponds to ti… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Add%20MIN%2FMAX%20aggregate%20...> glob support in extension_control_path/dynamic_library_path? <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=glob%20support%20in%20extensio...> A patch by Jakob Egger proposes adding glob/wildcard support to `extension_control_path` and `dynamic_library_path`, falling back to existing behavior on Windows. David E. Wheeler… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=glob%20support%20in%20extensio...> uuidv7 improperly accepts dates before 1970-01-01 <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=uuidv7%20improperly%20accepts%...> The discussion addresses a bug where `uuidv7()` improperly accepts timestamps outside its valid range. Baji Shaik submitted a three-patch series: rejecting timestamps before the U… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=uuidv7%20improperly%20accepts%...> Adding basic NUMA awareness <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20basic%20NUMA%20awaren...> Tomas Vondra posted an updated patch series for adding basic NUMA awareness to PostgreSQL. The two key fixes address mbind issues: correcting the nodemask size so partitions bind… Read Discussion <https://pgnexus.ai/hacker-discussions?subject=Adding%20basic%20NUMA%20awaren...> Click here for the full Hacker discussion highlights <https://pgnexus.ai/daily-updates?file=2026-06-24-postgresql-daily-news-187.m...> Industry News [image: OpenAI Unveils First Custom AI Chip "Jalapeño" Built by Broadcom] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F06%2F...> techcrunch.com OpenAI Unveils First Custom AI Chip "Jalapeño" Built by Broadcom <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F06%2F...> OpenAI has revealed its first custom-designed processor, named Jalapeño, developed in partnership with Broadcom. The chip was purpose-built to meet the specific demands of OpenAI'… [image: Facebook Launches AI Companion App for Content Creators] <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F06%2F...> techcrunch.com Facebook Launches AI Companion App for Content Creators <https://pgnexus.ai/tech-news?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2026%2F06%2F...> Facebook is rolling out a new AI companion app aimed at content creators, currently being tested with a select group. The app integrates Facebook's recently launched AI creator as… Social Media Updates [image: Every database eventually runs into the same wall: storage costs money, and the data nobody queries anymore costs exactly as much as the data everyone does.] <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> linkedin Every database eventually runs into the same wall: storage costs money, and the data nobody queries anymore costs exactly as much as the data everyone does. <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> All databases face the same cost problem: rarely accessed data occupies the same expensive block storage as frequently queried data. The common proposed solution is to move cold d… linkedin Less than a week to go until GITEX AI EUROPE - Europe's Leading Tech & AI Event and our team is super excited to attend! <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> GITEX AI EUROPE, described as Europe's leading technology and AI event, is less than a week away. The team is looking forward to attending and invites visitors to meet them at the… linkedin CYBERTEC CEO Hans-Juergen Schoenig introduces pg_hardstorage, a new open-source backup and point-in-time recovery tool for PostgreSQL, released under the Apache 2.0 license. <https://pgnexus.ai/social-media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.linkedin.com%2Fposts%2...> CYBERTEC CEO Hans-Juergen Schoenig has announced pg_hardstorage, an open-source backup and point-in-time recovery tool for PostgreSQL. Originally developed internally at CYBERTEC,… Want to stay up to date with the PostgreSQL community and industry news? 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