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Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: max_active_replication_origins
Ruohang Feng: Chinese PostgreSQL Docs Are Live: All 11 Major Versions
Dave Stokes: Structured Query Language 101 at Texas Linuxfest
I will be teaching the basics of SQL at the 2026 Texas Linuxfest. The session is listed for only 100 minutes, but I wrote the materials for a 3-hour course. We will cover as much of those three hours as the audience can stand (sit?), or they send us off to Sixth Street.
Tickets are available, and this event is great for networking. Ping me if you have questions about this session.
Elizabeth Garrett Christensen: 30 Years of Postgres Architecture: Tom Lane Interview
Elizabeth: I know a little bit of your history prior to joining the Postgres project. I think you did work on JPEG — the image specification. The internet thinks that you did some work on libjpeg, which was part of the Mars Perseverance camera work. Tell me a little bit about that and how that stuff affects your work in Postgres.
Viacheslav Sarzhan: Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0: Transparent Data Encryption, Logical Replicas, and Persistent Logging
Percona Operator for PostgreSQL 3.1.0 takes on three things that decide whether a PostgreSQL platform passes review: is the data encrypted at rest, can it serve reads without straining the primary, and are the logs there when you need them. This release answers all three inside the custom resource, so none of them is a bolt-on you maintain yourself.
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: maintenance_work_mem
David E. Wheeler: From the Department of It’s About Time: Inter-documentation and image links now work on PGXN
Way back in 2015, I opened a PGXN API issue to allow links between documents rendered by PGXN to work. In 2024 I followed up with another issue to enable relative links to images to work. I mean, everyone wants this, right? It’s how your favorite source code sit works.
gabrielle roth: The SCaLE 24x CfP is open – get your Postgres talks in!
Joshua Drake: Two features just left PostgreSQL 19.
David Wheeler: Introducing chdb Postgres extension: High-performance imports from cloud storage
We're happy to announce a new Postgres extension: chdb. This extension expands Postgres import and export features via the chDB library, an in-process ClickHouse engine, providing efficient, flexible conversion to and from a wide array of data formats living on your favorite cloud storage systems.
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Wellingtone Luvonga: The Default Deny Dilemma: A Practical Guide to Kubernetes Network Policies
Implementing a zero-trust network model in Kubernetes requires shifting from the default-allow behavior to explicit, label-driven microsegmentation. This hands-on lab walks through securing a standard three-tier architecture (Frontend ⭢ Backend ⭢ Database) using Kubernetes NetworkPolicies, validating both ingress and egress restrictions.
Christophe Pettus: All Your GUCs in a Row: maintenance_io_concurrency
Regina Obe: PostGIS 3.7.0rc2
The PostGIS Team is pleased to release PostGIS 3.7.0rc2!
Xavier Fischer: Birds of a Feather: How About Being a Speaker?
At Swiss PG Day 2026, I had the privilege of moderating a Birds of a Feather (BoF) session. A BoF session is a community-driven event designed for focused, interactive discussion among participants with shared interests.
Cornelia Biacsics: Contributions for week 34 & 35
On 26 August 2026, the Adelaide PostgreSQL User Group met, organized by Robins Tharakan. Shadab Mohammad and Robins Tharakan delivered a talk.
On 26 August, the Sydney PostgreSQL User Group met, organized by Shadab Mohammad. Rajesh Kandasamy and Shadab Mohammad delivered a talk.

