2026-05-08
· 2 min
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PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 18 finally fixes the autovacuum formula that left billion-row tables waiting for 200M dead tuples.
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2026-05-08
· 12 min
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PostgreSQL
Six years after PostgreSQL shipped the table access method API, the alternative storage engine ecosystem is thriving—but messier than early predictions…
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2026-05-08
· 9 min
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PostgreSQL
Snowflake's pg_lake and Databricks' Lakebase both wrap PostgreSQL for lakehouse workloads, but they're nearly opposite architectures.
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2026-05-07
· 3 min
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PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 13 added insert-triggered autovacuum to solve a critical problem: append-only tables never vacuumed, breaking index-only scans and delaying tuple…
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2026-05-07
· 7 min
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FOSSLaw , PostgreSQL
When a maintainer rewrites a project with AI and changes its license, they've crossed a line.
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2026-05-07
· 8 min
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PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 19 expands MultiXactOffset to 64 bits, eliminating a real outage failure mode. So when do regular transaction IDs get the same treatment?
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2026-05-06
· 3 min
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PostgreSQL
Autovacuum's three key parameters work together to control when it runs, how hard, and how it throttles itself.
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2026-05-06
· 2 min
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PostgreSQL
When your database catches fire, panic is optional. Learn seven battle-tested rules that turn chaos into a coordinated response.
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2026-05-06
· 4 min
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PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL 19 eliminates the 32-bit MultiXactOffset ceiling that has crashed high-concurrency FK-heavy clusters at 3 a.m.
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2026-05-06
· 5 min
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PostgreSQL
Most organizations that build data lakes don't need them.
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