
AWS recently announced ExtendDB, a DynamoDB-compatible adapter that lets developers use the DynamoDB API with different storage backends, starting with PostgreSQL. The project supports existing SDKs and tools without modification, giving…

PostgreSQL 11 lets you create a data directory with group read access (0750) instead of owner-only (0700), enabling unprivileged backup processes to copy files…

Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The team profiled the bottleneck and patched ClickHouse to replace an exclusive lock with a shared…
PostgreSQL solves a bootstrapping puzzle with `data_directory`: how to find the config file before knowing where the data lives.