GitHub Won a Case You Weren’t In
Last Wednesday the Ninth Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the DMCA claims in Doe v. GitHub, Inc., No. 24-7700 (9th Cir. Sept. 16, 2026). The headlines said Git
All Your GUCs in a Row: max_parallel_apply_workers_per_subscription
Parallel apply workers speed up logical replication of large transactions—but only if you have enough of them.
All Your GUCs in a Row: max_parallel_workers and max_parallel_workers_per_gather
PostgreSQL's parallel worker parameters don't mean what their names suggest: one caps per-node requests, the other enforces a shared limit that any session can…
All Your GUCs in a Row: max_parallel_maintenance_workers
Raising `max_parallel_maintenance_workers` doesn't guarantee parallel builds use it.
All Your GUCs in a Row: max_notify_queue_pages
The `LISTEN`/`NOTIFY` queue grew from 8GB to unlimited in PostgreSQL 17.
The Call Is Coming From Inside the Session
Role-level timeouts and read-only flags sound safe until you realize the session can change them in one statement.
All Your GUCs in a Row: max_logical_replication_workers
When a logical replication worker pool runs dry, subscriptions don't fail—they just stop making progress, filling your logs with warnings every five seconds…
All Your GUCs in a Row: max_locks_per_transaction
`max_locks_per_transaction` isn't about transactions or limits—it sizes the cluster-wide lock table, and its misleading name has confused PostgreSQL users for…
19th Nervous Breakdown
PostgreSQL 19's release crumbled under its own ambition: eight major features landed in five weeks before freeze, three committers pulled their work, and a…
All Your GUCs in a Row: max_index_keys
PostgreSQL's `max_index_keys` has counted more than keys since INCLUDE columns arrived in version 11, but stays locked at 32 due to on-disk tuple format…