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On 3rd of April 2026, Daniel Gustafsson committed patch: Online enabling and disabling of data checksums This allows data checksums to be enabled, or disabled, in a running cluster without restricting access to the cluster during…
Xata core is now available as open source under the Apache 2 license. It adds copy-on-write branching, scale-to-zero compute to Postgres.
How one developer built an open-source log management platform handling 5M logs/day on minimal hardware—using TimescaleDB continuous aggregates, compression, and hypertables.
Every year, PostgreSQL gets faster. Researchers benchmarking the optimizer from version 8 through 16 found an average 15% performance improvement per major release. That’s a decade of consistent, measurable progress. The project has been…