
Back on Friday, July 17th, I joined Courtney from Manning for another LinkedIn Live, this time on what to do when you inherit a bad database. The recording and the slides are now up, with a Q&A at the end. The session was based on Chapter…

PostgreSQL 19 Beta 3 shipped on August 13, 2026, and the release notes have been filled in as of 2026-07-18 — still marked subject to change, and the GA date isn’t announced yet, but following the project’s usual September/October cadence…

Brian Martin discusses the real-world performance costs of metrics libraries and shares strategies for low-overhead, "fearless" instrumentation. Drawing from his work at IOP Systems, he explores atomic primitives, per-CPU sharding,…
log_replication_commands is log_statement = all for walsenders, with the one difference that you should turn it on. A replication connection (replication=1 for physical, replication=database for logical) speaks a small language of its own:…