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Introducing Oracle Exadata on Exascale for Oracle AI Database@AWS

Today we're announcing the general availability of Oracle Exadata Database Service on Exascale Infrastructure (ExaDB-XS) for Oracle Database@AWS. ExaDB-XS brings Exadata-class performance and availability through a…

Migrate Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL across major versions with active Debezium CDC connectors using native logical replication

Standard upgrade paths break active Debezium CDC replication slots on Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL, forcing hours-long re-snapshots. This post shows how to use native PostgreSQL logical replication to bridge a source and…

plx : Write PostgreSQL functions in the language you already know.

What plx is plx is a PostgreSQL extension that lets you write stored functions and triggers in the dialect you already know (the current set is listed below). When you run CREATE FUNCTION, plx transpiles the body to…

New Modern JDBC Driver for PostgreSQL

Sehrope Sarkini along with Claude has written a new JDBC driver from scratch. It's currently in pre-release. Here's an excerpt from his blog PostgreSQL-first. The native API is designed around PostgreSQL's wire protocol…

SynchDB 1.4 Released - Oracle Container Database Support and TLS-Secured FDW Snapshots

Dear Community Members, We are excited to announce the release of SynchDB 1.4, a PostgreSQL extension for real-time replication from heterogeneous source databases into PostgreSQL/IvorySQL. This release extends Oracle…

Dasha - performance dashboard

Dasha is an open source performance dashboard for PostgreSQL fleets. It connects to your clusters with a read-only role, shows what the databases are doing right now, and explains what to do about it. Nothing is…

Jeremy Schneider: Postgres Checkpoint Followup and Collation Visualization and Codex Luna

My previous article talked about the checkpoint happiness hint: You probably should not change the checkpoint_timeout setting from its default of 5 minutes. Checkpoint Followup Questions A good follow-up question was…

Hans-Juergen Schoenig: Introducing the CYBERTEC PG Operator

There is no shortage of PostgreSQL operators for Kubernetes. Projects such as CloudNativePG, the Zalando postgres-operator, Crunchy PGO, and StackGres have all helped shape the ecosystem. So why did we build another…

Building scalable backend services with Rust and PostgreSQL

Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: io_combine_limit and io_max_combine_limit

PostgreSQL 17 introduced read streams that combine adjacent disk blocks into larger I/O requests.

A gofmt-style formatter for SQL

#​661 — August 12, 2026 Web Version 🏖️ We're taking a summer break next week, so the next issue will be on August 26. __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Postgres Weekly Introducing sqlfmt: An SQL gofmt-Style Formatter —…