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Introducing search aggregation, V2 API as default, and performance improvements that eliminate the complexity between search and analytics in a single Postgres-native system.

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PostgreSQL 18 has just been born and we are already talking about the blessings of PostgreSQL 19 and beyond? Well, yes, and there is a good reason for it.

Back in July I submitted talks to the annual PostgreSQL Conference Japan 2025 (PostgreSQL カンファレンス 2025). This year is the 20th year of the conference, I was told. That is even longer running than our “own” PostgreSQL Conference Europe. To my surprise, one of my submitted talks was accepted. Which made me plan a trip to Japan and South Korea, to combine the conference

Earlier this year we started a program (“Developer U”) to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Meet Vaibhav Dalvi, Staff SDE, who, prior to joining EDB had no experience with databases! And now look at him!

Earlier this year we started a program ("Developer U") to help colleagues who show promise for PostgreSQL Development to become contributors. Meet one of the participants: Akshay Joshi, a Principal Engineer and Engineering Manager at EDB.

PostgreSQL 19 changes this week COPY ...

On November 13th, 2025, we had the PostgreSQL November Meetup in Berlin. Redgate Software hosted us again, this time in a larger meeting room at The Social Hub Berlin. We had two speakers, and very tasty food. The event space is in Alexanderstraße 40, in Berlin Mitte. just five minutes away from Alexanderplatz. It is a event and gym venue, with several meeting rooms in various sizes, office area and a gym.

Seven PostgreSQL contributors completed this year of Google Summer Of Code:

Contributors:

• Ahmad Gouda
• Ashutosh Sh
• Bassam Adnan
• Gaurav Patidar
• Mankirat Singh
• Mohab Yasser
• Tejas Tyagi

Mentors:

The PostgreSQL Buildfarm is a global network of machines that continuously test PostgreSQL across a wide range of operating systems, architectures, compilers, and branches. Over the past few years, I have created and maintained several buildfarm members, each with its own quirks and strengths. In this post, I’ll share a status-update working on the following animals: alligator, dodo,

The PostgreSQL Buildfarm is a global network of machines that continuously test PostgreSQL across a wide range of operating systems, architectures, compilers, and branches. Over the past few years, I have created and maintained several buildfarm members, each with its own quirks and strengths. In this post, I’ll share a status-update working on the following animals: alligator, dodo,

In the past few months, two new database videos were released on YouTube. From Hollerith to Stonebraker, from IMS to Postgres, the first video does a great job of walking through the history of databases in a way that I have never seen before.

With 3k slides and 64 presentations (and more two pending), the Presentations section of my website was getting cluttered. (Okay, I guess it has been cluttered for a while.) I have restructured the sections, adding two, removing one, and moving superseded presentations to Old. Hopefully this will help website visitors more easily find useful information.

One of the temptations database users face, when presented with a huge table of interesting data, is to run queries that interrogate every record. Got a billion measurements? What’s the average of that?!

One way to find out is to just calculate the average.

SELECT avg(value) FROM mytable;

For a billion records, that could take a while!

Unlike the standard multi-node Postgres replication cluster, when managed by Patroni, all failovers are automatically executed. However, this is not the case when dealing with inter-datacentre failovers when for instance a standby datacentre must take over from a failed primary. The following describes the mechanisms required to perform such a procedure when the case arises. […]