PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 are out as of May 14, 2026. The release fixes eleven security issues and more than sixty bugs. That is not a typo. Eleven CVEs is the largest single-release security batch I can remember, and…
PostgreSQL 19 brings back MERGE PARTITIONS and SPLIT PARTITION—but simpler and safer than the first attempt.

When a partitioning change to our petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused critical billing jobs to stall, standard metrics showed no obvious errors. This post explores how we identified severe lock contention in ClickHouse's query planner…
Yesterday, we had our first meetup at our new venue, which we hope will become our permanent home: the Chicago Innovations Center at 1 W. Monroe. We had the pleasure of having Elizabeth Christensen from Snowflake, who delivered a talk…