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This is a guest blog post, written by Devin Pratt, Research Director at IDC. When I brief IT leaders today, the conversation flips. The question used to be which model to use. Now it is a question of whether their data…
Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS) for PostgreSQL announces Amazon RDS Extended Support minor versions 13.23-rds.20260514, 12.22-rds.20260514, and 11.22-rds.20260514. Amazon RDS Extended Support provides up to…
Amazon Aurora PostgreSQL-Compatible Edition now supports PostgreSQL versions 18.6, 17.11, 16.15, 15.19, and 14.24, which include bug fixes from the PostgreSQL community and Aurora-specific enhancements. We recommend…
Today, MongoDB is announcing the public preview of data residency in Europe and the US for the Embedding and Reranking API Service, also known as ERAS, on MongoDB Atlas. It’s a critical priority to make industry-leading…
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…
ERP software handles money, stock, and approvals, so small bugs get expensive fast. A stock count that drifts by a few units or a rounding error in an invoice can take days to trace. Off-the-shelf ERPs cover the general…
New business unit to be led by former MongoDB CEO 'CJ' Desai
Andres Freund has a few claims to fame, but chief among them is his many years of work to improve the performance of the PostgreSQL relational database management system. That work requires working with — or around —…
After trying not to add any Rust packages to the PostgreSQL RPM repository, I finally bit the bullet and pushed pgrx and postgresql_anonymizer to the RPM repos, along with packaging guidelines:…
When we post an engineering job, we get 300 to 400 résumés in a week. Reading each one carefully takes about two minutes. That adds up to eleven hours of work for just one opening, before any intervie
Errata: the max_connections post told you to size that parameter for “the replication connections.” On 12 and later, don’t. WAL senders have their own seats, sized by this parameter, and have not drawn from…
PostgreSQL 18 ships uuidv7() in core. No extension, no application code. So the old question comes back: if you want UUID keys, does the version matter? I loaded 5 million rows three ways and measured. Short answer:…
The SQL standard is written by a committee I sit on, so what people think it ought to contain is a professional interest of mine. The various social media algorithms seem to know this, and they serve me mostly relevant…
Use PostgreSQL ALTER FUNCTION SET work_mem to stop one function's sorts spilling to disk without a global change. A production fix: 150 GB a day to 0.
