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It is hardly headline news that large language models can be unreliable. For some use cases, this can be inconvenient. For others — especially in regulated industries — the consequences are way more severe. Enter…
Teams increasingly want agents that handle routine database work: checking cluster alerts, reviewing slow queries, and answering questions about a schema. But building agents takes much more than a prompt. It requires…
U.S. Bank migrated 119 TB across four Oracle Exadata databases to Amazon RDS for Oracle over a bandwidth-limited AWS Direct Connect link. This post walks through the automated migration pipeline they built with Oracle…
Some of you may have noticed a different, and perhaps familiar, name at the top of this post. Following this week’s leadership change, the board asked me to step in as interim CEO. I led MongoDB for more than 11 years…
The RHEL 10.0 and RHEL 9.6 repositories are being retired from the main PostgreSQL RPM repository, and are moved to the PostgreSQL YUM archive . All PostgreSQL major versions that were built for these minor releases are…
We are happy to announce that FOSSASIA PGDay returns to Thailand on 9 March, 2027, bringing the PostgreSQL community together at True Digital Park, Bangkok. Visit the PGDay website for more details. About Event FOSSASIA…
The SLES 15.6 repositories are being retired from the main PostgreSQL RPM repository, and are moved to the PostgreSQL ZYPP archive .General support for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 15 SP6 (15.6) ended on December…
A read replica is a PostgreSQL server in permanent recovery that accepts queries—and nearly every surprise it causes follows from that fact. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (environment-modules, kernel, pcs, perl-URI, python3.14-urllib3, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (python-django), Fedora (bind, bind-dyndb-ldap, chromium, cifs-utils, curl,…
recovery_min_apply_delay makes a standby late on purpose. For the length of the delay there is a running, queryable copy of your database on which the DELETE without a WHERE clause has not happened yet. That is the…
A hook that fires exactly once at promotion or restore completion—but the server is neither ready nor recovering while your command runs. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
After a crash, PostgreSQL syncs every file in your data directory before replaying any WAL—and on large clusters, this can consume minutes. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
We’re continuing our review of the March CommitFest for PostgreSQL 19. This third article in the series covers the changes related to our DBA3 and DBS courses. As a reminder, here’s the plan for our coverage of the…
