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Postgres Conference 2026 was held in San Jose, California, and once again, I was lucky to be invited to speak. This is a great show for the 'hallway track' where you talk to members of the community and discover many interesting things. I…
PostgreSQL 18 shipped asynchronous I/O. The dominant flavor on Linux was io_uring; everything else fell back to a worker pool controlled by io_method=worker. Early benchmarks from pganalyze, Aiven, and Better Stack showed real wins on…
Here is a GUC that ships with a warning label. The docs, which are normally restrained to the point of parody, state plainly that setting this parameter wrong can cause “irretrievable data loss or seriously corrupt the database system.”…
If you’re going to hire a PostgreSQL consultant, hire one. That means access to the database. I’m writing this because the “we hired you but you can’t touch the thing” conversation happens at the start of roughly one in four PGX…