The Supreme Court let stand a narrow ruling: machines alone cannot be copyright authors.

archive_timeout forces WAL segment rotations on quiet databases to prevent hours of unarchived writes.

AWS runs unmodified PostgreSQL on EC2 instances, handling backups and failover via storage-layer replication. Learn what RDS actually is—and what it isn't.

Open source licensing wars escalated dramatically in 2026—forks are no longer escapes, they're just the opening move in protracted legal battles.

PostgreSQL 19 adds parallel autovacuum, but it only speeds up index cleanup—and only if your table has many indexes. Most tables won't benefit at all.

PostgreSQL's permissive license made it the world's most successful open-source database.

Enable WAL archiving with archive_mode, but know that flipping it requires a server restart—a critical operational fact that separates this parameter from…

pgBackRest, PostgreSQL's most widely-deployed backup tool, is no longer maintained after thirteen years.

PostgreSQL 19 lets you enable data checksums without downtime, but the background rewrite job is I/O-heavy and competes with your workload.

PostgreSQL 19 finally gives you `pg_get_database_ddl()`: a function that returns the SQL to recreate a database, no `pg_dump` required.