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Introducing strands-dynamodb-storage: Durable agent storage for the Strands Agents SDK

Announcing strands-dynamodb-storage, an open source Amazon DynamoDB storage backend for the Strands Agents SDK. Back a Strands agent's session state, long-term memories, and transcripts with one DynamoDB table in your…

Christopher Winslett: Postgres Calculations and the Ambiguity of NULL

When dividing by zero, Postgres fails and declares you ran an illegal operation. Cast 'abc' to an integer, and get an error. Divide by NULL and the query still runs. NULL isn't even a value. It is a marker for…

Dave Stokes: Loading the Northwinds Database Into PostgreSQL with DBeaver

Note: I am presenting a tutorial for those who want to learn SQL at this year's Texas Linuxfest (https://pretalx.com/txlf2026/talk/DQ3XW7/) on November 6th. This is a great opportunity at a fantastic community event and…

Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: log_min_duration_sample, log_statement_sample_rate, and log_transaction_sample_rate

Aggregate query statistics hide the forest of cheap queries.

MERGE/SPLIT PARTITION reverted again

#​663 — September 2, 2026 Web Version Postgres Weekly Read Your Own Writes Off the Primary: WAIT FOR Measured — Last week, we shared an item explaining what Postgres 19's WAIT FOR is. Now, Radim puts it to the test:…

htmx 4.0 takes HTML-driven apps further

🚀 Frontend Focus #​756 — September 2, 2026 | Read on the web htmx 4.0: Server-Driven Interactivity From Your Markup — htmx lets you drive server requests (now using fetch) and DOM updates from HTML attributes without…

New things for regular expressions in PostgreSQL (pg_tre and pg_re2)

Read your own writes, off the primary