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The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Ruby Driver Wrapper is now generally available for use with Amazon RDS and Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL and MySQL-compatible databases. This advanced database driver reduces RDS…
Migrating SQL Server Full-Text Search to Babelfish for Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL is one of the trickier parts of a migration. This post presents a six-checkpoint decision tree to assess whether your Full-Text Search…
Amagi built a Global Metadata Store on Amazon Neptune to model billions of interconnected media metadata relationships. Learn how their RDF knowledge graph, paired with Amazon OpenSearch Service and a custom blank-node…
I was experimenting with the async_trait crate and stumble upon the following error: future created by async block is not Send by the following code: #[async_trait::async_trait] trait DatabaseManagerGetConnection {…
Version 1.7.2 of pg_vault_tde is now available. This is a binary patch release where extension version stays at 1.7, but users can distinguish the build at runtime using pg_vault_tde_build_version(). This update focuses…
pgvector 0.8.7 is now available. This release fixes a buffer overflow with IVFFlat index builds (CVE-2026-103484), which can lead to arbitrary code execution. Users are encouraged to upgrade when possible. More details:…
IVM Development Group is pleased to announce the release of pg_ivm 1.16. Changes since the v1.15 release include: What's Changed New features Add support for PostgreSQL 19 ( Devrim Gündüz ) Bug fixes Fix a segfault when…
The release adds a PostgreSQL Debugger, visual editors for event triggers, functions and procedures, as well as file attachments and model choice in dbForge AI Assistant. Devart, a leading developer of database…
My tool tells you things like “this index cuts the query’s cost by 91%”. Before releasing it, I wanted to know what that number is actually worth. The tool is PgLens, a Postgres index advisor I’m building. Like several…
PostgreSQL connection poolers lie to both sides of the wire: your app thinks it has thousands of connections while the database sees dozens. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
pgvector 0.8.7 fixes CVE-2026-103484: a database user who can create an IVFFlat index can write out of bounds in the backend, which can lead to arbitrary code execution. Every version through 0.8.6 is affected. Upgrade.…
On 29 September, the PostgreSQL Usergroup NL met, organized by Gerard Zuidweg and Sebastiaan Mannem Speakers: Peter Lengkeek Ellert Van Koperen Jan Karremans The Postgres US Summit 2026 was held from 30 September to 2…
When one long transaction holds row locks on thousands of parents, multixact cache misses can tank insert throughput. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)