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Hello, I’m posting here because I still don’t fully understand how to use SQLX to connect to different relational databases. I’m currently building the backend for a blog and my database will be PostgreSQL, so when I…
This post shows how to compose a Bloom filter with an exact-match cache and a relational source of truth into a three-tier, correctness-safe membership lookup using Amazon ElastiCache for Valkey and Amazon Aurora…
Learn how Intuit and AWS validated Amazon ElastiCache resilience under a real Availability Zone impairment using AWS Fault Injection Service, cutting recovery from over 50 minutes to under 2 minutes with no manual…
The pgAdmin Development Team is pleased to announce the release of pgAdmin 4 version 9.18. This release of pgAdmin 4 includes 29 bug fixes and new features, including fixes for four security vulnerabilities…
The usual argument for good governance is that it makes you faster. I think the sharper point is that it decides how far you are allowed to go.
SourceDocsProduct page2026-09-17pgColumnar 1.0-alpha4 release notesRelease date: 2026-09-17 Previous release: 1.0-alpha3 (2026-09-02)pgColumnar is a columnar table access method for PostgreSQL. This is the fourth alpha.…
Role-level timeouts and read-only flags sound safe until you realize the session can change them in one statement.
Ask a database vendor about on-prem and you'll usually get a one-line answer: 'we're open source, you can just self-host it.' For a hobby project, fine. For an enterprise, that line rarely survives contact with…
Last week, I spent three days in the Netherlands and gave two talks at two conferences: a lightning talk at PGDay Lowlands in Utrecht on Thursday, September 10, and a session at Percona Live in Amsterdam on Friday,…
As a SQL Server developer and DBA learning Postgres, it’s easy to expect that the information you need for meaningful query and performance tuning will be readily available. For years (decades, maybe) you’ve learned the…
In PostgreSQL, every tuple starts with 23-byte header, and the first eight bytes are two transaction IDs. t_xmin for the transaction that created the row and t_xmax for the one that deleted or updated it. That is the…
Inside this week's LWN.net Weekly Edition: Front: Server-data encryption; PostgreSQL scary patches; Faster kernel builds; BPF for blk-iocost; Lessons learned as DPL. Briefs: Brief news items from throughout the…
When a logical replication worker pool runs dry, subscriptions don't fail—they just stop making progress, filling your logs with warnings every five seconds…
#641 — September 17, 2026 Read on the Web Why (and How) GitHub Ported Copilot's Runtime from Node to Rust — GitHub's Copilot runtime moved to Rust, ported in pieces behind napi-rs shims while shipping daily. Startup…
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