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This year's PostgreSQL Conference Europe, PGConf.EU 2026, took place from October 20th to 23rd in wonderful Valencia, at the Palacio de Congresos. There was far too much going on to cover it all, so I'm just going to go over what I was…
You don't have to decide which data goes where, and a lot gets simpler once you stop drawing the line.
In my last post I walked through a rolling major version upgrade: add a brand new node on the new version, let it join the Spock cluster, retire the old node. It works well, but it assumes you can stand up an extra server for every node…
MySQL and DuckDB Unlike row-oriented databases, which store data for a single record sequentially on disk, favoring single-row lookups, columnar databases store all the values from a column contiguously in storage, allowing only the…