The first thing you will probably learn about Postgres, if you follow people who don't like Postgres, is that MVCC is bad. The 40-year-old design mistake. It's signatures are everywhere. Bloated tables that double in size, 32-bit…

This week's Java roundup for July 20th, 2026, features news highlighting: two JEPs proposed to target for JDK 28; new JEPs 540 and 541, Simple JSON API (Incubator) and Deprecate the macOS/x64 Port for Removal, respectively; the July 2026…
PostgreSQL's `gin_fuzzy_search_limit` silently returns a random subset of matching rows instead of all results—a dangerous trade of correctness for speed that…
At a Postgres meetup in Melbourne, I finally got a straight answer to a question that had nagged me for quite a long time: why do people actually choose Postgres? It isn't an idle question for me — I spend my days reading field reports and…