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Deletion protection on an Amazon RDS database is a single setting that anyone can switch off, and across hundreds of accounts there is no single place to see which databases still run without it. This post shows how to…
Antananarivo, Madagascar - November 03, 2026 pgBadger pgBadger is a PostgreSQL performance analyzer, built for speed with fully detailed reports based on your PostgreSQL log files. pgBadger 13.3 was released today, this…
If you have certain lines of code that repeat over and over again in a project, there's a pretty standard solution for it: using a function. But what about when you have the same project file setup th
Right after the Apache Software Foundation's Community Over Code in Glasgow, we found ourselves the following day in Edinburgh for our October meetup, where Elizabeth Christensen (Snowflake) went over what's new in…
The November 2026 DB-Engines rankings are out. PostgreSQL is the only database in the top four whose line is going up and to the right. Oracle, MySQL and Microsoft SQL Server all lost points this month, and all three…
In 2014, if you wanted Postgres servers on several continents, each of them accepting writes and all of them sharing their rows, there was one serious open source answer: BDR, from 2ndQuadrant. It needed a patched…
Again, apologies for the delay. PGConf.dev was back in May, and it has taken me until November to follow up on Part One. This part is about "Establishing the PostgreSQL standard: What's Postgres compatible?", the…
PERN stands for PostgreSQL, Express, React and Node.js. MERN is the same stack with one letter changed: MongoDB in place of PostgreSQL. So the real question behind "PERN vs MERN" is not about four tools. It is about one…
Ali joins us to talk about pgmq, a lightweight message queue tool similar to AWS SQS and RSMQ but on Postgres. We'll take a look at how to get started with the project and what it's like to be an OSS maintainer.