Neues vom PostgreSQL Planet

Seattle Postgres Users Group (SEAPUG) maintained the PostgreSQL booth at PASS Data Community Summit 2025 from November 17-21, 2025:

• Lloyd Albin
• Jeremy Schneider
• Harry Pierson
• Ben Chobot
• Deon Gill
• Rick Lowe
• Pavlo Golub

Speakers:

PASS Data Community Summit 2025 wrapped up last week. This conference originated 25 years ago with the independent, user-led, not-for-profit “Professional Association for SQL Server (PASS)” and the annual summit in Seattle continues to attract thousands of database professionals each year. After the pandemic it was reorganized and broadened as a “Data Community” event, including a Postgres track.

Introduction

Recently, I read an article titled "Alias Settings of Engineers Around the World" (in Japanese). As a PostgreSQL engineer, this got me thinking: "If they are customizing their bash aliases, how are they configuring their psql environments?"

Driven by curiosity, I decided to investigate GitHub repositories to see how developers commonly configure their psqlrc files.

Recently(ish) I had a conversation on one of PostgreSQL support chats (IRC, Slack, or Discord) about efficient storage of JSON data, which compression to use, which datatype. Unrelated to this, some people (at least two over the last year or so) said that they aren't sure if PostgreSQL doesn't optimize storage between columns, for example, … Continue reading "Using JSON: json vs. jsonb, pglz vs. lz4, key optimization, parsing speed?"

The Postgres planner just got a new superpower: X-ray vision for your black-box functions. For years, Postgres has been able to "inline" simple SQL functions. If you wrote CREATE FUNCTION ... LANGUAGE SQL AS 'SELECT ...', the planner would often rip out the function call and paste the raw SQL directly into the main query. This was magic. It meant that WHERE clauses could be pushed down, indexes

Back in October, before PGConf.EU, I explained the issues impacting the prolonged wait for TDE in PostgreSQL 18. Explanations were needed as users were buzzing with anticipation, and they deserved to understand what caused the delays and what the roadmap looked like.

A recent commit to the PostgreSQL master branch brings a nice quality-of-life optimization for a very common SQL pattern - improving performance by up to 64% for SELECT COUNT(h) where h is a NOT NULL column. If you've ever wondered whether you should use COUNT(*) or COUNT(1), or if you've been dutifully using COUNT(id) on a non-null column, this change is for you. Note: This feature is currently

 Quick! You need to create a complex query, but you don't remember how to join the tables. And you need to get it done ASAP.

You are in luck if you have an enterprise edition of DBeaver handy.  You can drag and drop the tables and then adjust the clauses as needed without having to dig into the table definitions.

1. Open the database 

The call for papers is now open for FOSDEM PGDay 2026. The CfP will run until December 15, 2025 at 11:59 CET. We will aim to notify speakers by December 17th, 2025 and publish the schedule before Christmas.

Bringing connection retries, anonymizer features, memory improvements and solid community input.

This blog post recaps my eventful participation in KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, highlighting the key decision by maintainers to formally apply for CNCF Incubation for the CloudNativePG operator.