Postgres 19's most exciting features
#647 — May 6, 2026Web VersionPostgres WeeklyPostgres 19 Features I'm Excited About— An opinionated run-through of some v19 highlights, including pg_plan_advice, DDL extraction functions, online...
View ArticlepgBackRest is no longer being maintained
#646 — April 29, 2026Web VersionPostgres WeeklypgBackRest Is 'Dead': Now What?— The biggest Postgres story on social media is pgBackRest’s repo being archived and gaining a ‘notice of obsolescence’....
View ArticleA Kafka-like pure SQL queue for Postgres
#645 — April 22, 2026Web VersionPostgres Weekly📝 The First Draft of the PostgreSQL 19 Release Notes— Bruce has just completed the first, bulletpoint-heavy draft of the release notes for Postgres 19,...
View ArticleA 6502 CPU emulator entirely in Postgres
#644 — April 15, 2026Web VersionPostgres WeeklyKeeping a Postgres Queue Healthy— Running a job queue in Postgres works well (“just use Postgres!”) until long-running analytics queries silently prevent...
View ArticleClickHouse's new benchmark for Postgres services
#643 — April 8, 2026Web VersionPostgres WeeklyAWS Engineer Reports Postgres Performance Halved by Linux 7.0— When running Postgres 17 on an ARM-based instance running the Linux 7.0 kernel (currently...
View Articlepg_textsearch 1.0 brings production-ready BM25 to Postgres
#642 — April 1, 2026Web VersionPostgres Weeklypg_textsearch 1.0: A BM25 Search Engine Using Postgres Pages— Real BM25 scoring built in C and running on top of Postgres’s own storage layer, so you can...
View ArticleAnother free Postgres hosting option arrives
#621 — October 23, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyIs Your Database Read Heavy or Write Heavy?— Most databases will tend to be heavier on reads than writes, but it depends on your workload. Is it worth...
View ArticleBenchmarking Postgres 17 vs 18
#620 — October 16, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyBenchmarking Postgres 17 vs 18— The author conducted a series of detailed performance benchmarks between Postgres 17 and 18, in some 96 combinations,...
View ArticleHow to get started with building and debugging Postgres
#619 — October 9, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyBuilding and Debugging Postgres— How to set up a container for building Postgres from source and then debugging it from GDB and VS Code. Useful tips if...
View ArticlePipelining comes to `psql` in Postgres 18
#618 — October 2, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyGoing Down the Rabbit Hole of Postgres 18 Features— Excuse us if we maintain the excitement from last week’s release of Postgres 18. Tudor walks through...
View ArticlePostgres 18 released
#617 — September 25, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyPostgres 18 Released— Right on schedule comes the latest major version of Postgres. It's not one of Postgres's biggest steps forward, but has many...
View ArticleSharding a Postgres database without downtime
#616 — September 18, 2025Web Version🖋️ Due to the final release of Postgres 18 being expected next Thursday (September 25), we may send next week's issue a little later than usual.__Peter Cooper, your...
View ArticleOrioleDB's patent now available to the Postgres community
#615 — September 11, 2025Web VersionPostgres Weeklypg_duckdb 1.0: DuckDB-Powered Postgres for High Performance Analytics— An official Postgres extension (built in collaboration with Hydra and...
View ArticlePostgres 18 enters the Release Candidate stage
#614 — September 4, 2025Web VersionPostgres Weekly🗓️ pgcalendar: 'Infinite' Calendar Functionality for Recurring Schedules— If you need to store schedules for events, potentially with exceptions (like...
View ArticleBig steps forward for DocumentDB
#613 — August 28, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyDocumentDB Joins the Linux Foundation— DocumentDB is an MIT licensed document database built around a Postgres extension that Microsoft open sourced...
View ArticleA fantastic guide to logging in Postgres
#612 — August 21, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyPostgres Logging for Performance Optimization— A fantastically thorough article on a topic that’s easy to overlook: logging. Elizabeth walks through the...
View ArticleThe different types of log sequence numbers
#611 — August 7, 2025Web Version☀️ We're taking next week off, so this will be the last issue until Thursday, August 21. Just a little summer vacation! 😅__Peter Cooper, your editorPostgres...
View ArticleMaking Postgres much slower (and faster!)
#610 — July 31, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyMaking Postgres 42,000x Slower (Because I Am Unemployed)— We run a lot of items on getting the most out of Postgres and making things run as quickly and...
View ArticleUsing Postgres as a high-scale queue
#609 — July 24, 2025Web VersionPostgres WeeklyPostgres 18 Beta 2 Released— The second beta of Postgres 18 is now available, pending a final release in the next couple of months. The draft release...
View ArticlePostgres providers chew over PlanetScale's benchmarks
#608 — July 17, 2025Web VersionPostgres Weekly📊 Xata's Reaction to PlanetScale's Postgres Benchmarks— PlanetScale’s entry into the Postgres world has sparked widespread attention, with other providers...
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