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Learn how The New York Times migrated its PLATO subscription revenue engine from Oracle to Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL in about 5 months instead of 18, using an AI-agent-native approach on Amazon Bedrock with AWS DMS to…
Vestiaire Collective, a global platform for pre-owned luxury fashion, achieved near-zero downtime upgrading its Amazon RDS for MariaDB fleet across two major versions. Learn how the team used Amazon RDS Blue/Green…
Many of the agent demos published this year are some version of the same thing: connect your agent to a data source, let it get familiar with the data, and get a report back. We’ll build a coordinator agent and three…
HypoPG 1.4.4 is out! Tainan, Taiwan - Sun 25 Oct 2026 HypoPG 1.4.4 I'm pleased to announce the release of the version 1.4.4 of HypoPG, an extension adding support for Hypothetical Indexes, compatible with PostgreSQL 9.2…
IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the release of pg_ivm 1.17. Changes since the v1.16 release include: What's Changed New features Add replace option to restore_immv() (Yugo Nagata) Allow restore_immv() to…
pg_hdr_histogram is a PostgreSQL extension for exact-latency percentiles. Most monitoring tools approximate percentiles from fixed buckets. pg_hdr_histogram stores a full HDR histogram as a first-class type, so p50 /…
For years, installing many packages from the PostgreSQL RPM repository on RHEL and its rebuilds started with the same step: `dnf install epel-release`. PostGIS, pgBackRest, pgcli, patroni, pg_statviz, ora2pg and lots of…
Search used to mean matching words. Today it often means matching meaning, and that is where vectors come in. An embedding model turns a sentence, an image or a product into a list of numbers, and similar things end up…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (ca-certificates, cockpit-machines, container-tools:4.0, expat, flute, libbase, libfonts, libformula, liblayout, libloader, libreoffice, librepository, libserializer,…
As promised during the session, I'm sharing the slides from the "Fostering Inclusivity with the PostgreSQL Europe Diversity Committee" presentation at the New PostgreSQL Community Members - Summit at PostgreSQL…
Most teams I work with have a backup dashboard, and most days it is green. The job ran; it finished; nothing failed. That green tick feels like safety, and it is the reason nobody thinks about backups again until the…
Most database proxies that do read/write splitting get one thing wrong: after a client writes a row and immediately reads it back from a replica, the read can return stale data.
Every commit in PolarDB ends the same way: the WAL record must reach shared storage. On the way there, the bytes move from a WAL buffer, through the shared-storage daemon, to a device.
Everything works in the Lovable preview. You deploy it to your own domain on Vercel or Netlify, and suddenly login loops, pages go blank or the data never shows up. The app is almost never "broken". Something that the…
PostgreSQL 16's `reserved_connections` reserves slots for your monitoring and backup roles when the application exhausts the pool. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
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