At PGDay France (2018 or 2019, I honestly can’t remember which one), I shared my method for evaluating a Postgres extension: read the source code, and ask yourself whether you understand it well enough to fix a small bug. Someone in the…
PostgreSQL 18 finally made extensions truly relocatable by adding `extension_control_path` to match the long-existing `dynamic_library_path`.
PostgreSQL's isolation levels hold surprises: read uncommitted silently becomes read committed, repeatable read forbids phantom reads the standard permits, and…

TL;DR: This advisory covers the two most important high-severity memory-safety vulnerabilities affecting MongoDB Community and our downstream Percona Server for MongoDB – CVE-2026-11933 and CVE-2026-9740. Both will be addressed in a single…