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A deep dive into the evolution of my GSoC'25 project: the PostgreSQL ABI Compliance Checker. I share my journey of developing the ABICompCheck module using the PostgreSQL BuildFarm, learning Perl, setting up a CGI Server, and launching a public BuildFarm animal to run checks every 24 hours.

In the previous post, I discussed GSoC, my road to acceptance at PostgreSQL, and my project deliverables.

Today, I will share my experience with the PostgreSQL community, and the work I did.

Postgres Community Bonding

The first phase of GSoC is community bonding, where the mentee gets to know the community of his organization.

In the previous post, I discussed GSoC, my road to acceptance at PostgreSQL, and my project deliverables.

Today, I will share my experience with the PostgreSQL community, and the work I did.

Postgres Community Bonding

The first phase of GSoC is community bonding, where the mentee gets to know the community of his organization.

PGConf.EU’s first Community Events Day organized by community members: summits, showcases and trainings. Last few days to submit talks!

Clearly it's summer time in the Northern Hemisphere and we haven't been as punctual with our recognition posts! We'll resume to a more regular schedule, promised!

On Aug, 28 Peter Zaitsev and Emma Saroyan organised PG Armenia x Percona University.

Speakers: * Peter Zaitsev * Andrey Borodin * Emma Saroyan * Konstantin Trushin * Dmitrii Kochetov * Alexey Palazhchenko * Alex Demidoff * Eugene Klimov * Kim Saroyan * Alexander Zaitsev * Aya Guseinova * Piotr Kalmukhyan

Yesterday someone posted a set of queries for interviews, all centered on answering business-like questions from database. Today this post is hidden behind some “subscribe to read more" thing, so I will not even link it, but one question there caught my eye. Since I can't copy paste the text, I'll try to write what … Continue reading "Who logged to system from multiple countries in 2 hours?"

The PostgreSQL development group released the second Beta version of PostgreSQL 18 in July; the GA version is expected later in 2025 (around the September/October timeframe). The PostgreSQL development group and its community is very dedicated and ensures several minor releases during the year and major releases every year.

Row-level security (RLS) is a great feature. It allows restricting access to rows by applying filters defined by a policy. It’s a tool useful for cases when the data set can’t be split into separate databases.

PostgreSQL 19 changes this week ALTER DOMAIN ALTER DOMAIN ... VALIDATE CONSTRAINT executes at lock level ShareUpdateExclusivelock instead of ShareLock PL/Python event trigger support added sync_replication_slots if enabled, now requires wal_level to be set to logical

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The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.6.0rc2! Best Served with PostgreSQL 18 Beta3 and recently released GEOS 3.14.0.

This version requires PostgreSQL 12 - 18beta3, GEOS 3.8 or higher, and Proj 6.1+. To take advantage of all features, GEOS 3.14+ is needed. To take advantage of all SFCGAL features, SFCGAL 2.2.0+ is needed.