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Top topics: PostgreSQL · General · AI
If you have ever built a modern fintech application, SaaS billing platform, or e-commerce engine, you already know a dirty little secret of software engineering: money does not move instantly. In a synchronous,…
Read replicas are one tool, but tuning a replica for one job and sending it another is a recipe for conflict. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (bubblewrap, emacs, gimp:2.8, glibc, jackson-databind, kernel, kernel-rt, librabbitmq, openexr, openssh, postgresql:16, postgresql:18, python3, resteasy, wireshark,…
Most application search setups force a trade-off: settle for simple text filters, or manage a separate search cluster like Elasticsearch with complex synchronization pipelines. In a new video course o
Another story of something I saw in the field which surprised me. Turns out recovery_prefetch can cause outages. Something which has been happening quietly in the background all the time, but we didn’t notice until we…
arXiv:2610.27019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cardinality estimation is essential for query optimization, but most existing learned estimators focus on a single predicate type, such as string LIKE clauses or…
#670 — October 21, 2026 Web Version Postgres Weekly Postgres 19: What Changed and What to Test Now — With RC1 out and GA due in under a month, Tom Kincaid walks through what survived the reverts and what to try before…
A friend of mine is an excellent architect but a complete snob. He has four different databases in production: PostgreSQL for OLTP, ClickHouse for OpenTelemetry data and web analytics, Elasticsearch for full-text search…
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0rc3! Best Served with PostgreSQL 19 RC 1 , GEOS 3.15.0 , postgis_tiger_geocoder 2025.2 , and address_standardizer. This version requires GEOS 3.10+, PostgreSQL…
This is the second post in a series exploring graph databases and PostgreSQL. The first post covered what graphs are, what can be modeled as a graph, and the landscape of graph database systems. This post moves from the…
Hacker News discussion (42 points, 6 comments)
Hey all, Kartik from Omnara (https://omnara.com) here. We're building an open-source API for running durable agents. You create an agent with an API call, and Omnara runs the agent loop, gives the agent sandboxes to run…
