A thorough 50 page (PDF) guide to the new features in the forthcoming Postgres 9.6.

PostgreSQL 9.6 is introducing a new in-core infrastructure to help in the tracking of wait events for backend processes.

Robert Hass, major contributor, outlines some of EDB’s recent contributions to the PostgreSQL ecosystem. Like any other company that supports PostgreSQL, EDB makes technical contributions to the PostgreSQL community in a variety of ways: code; patch review, testing, and commit; external tools; and packaging.

“There’s a number of bad practices that tend to get picked up when working with databases, here’s a rundown of just a few.”

An exploration of the Postgres ‘window functions’ feature, and why it might be useful.

Both within Postgres and coming from other databases (MongoDB and MySQL).

A Rust Postgres FFI for building Postgres extensions in the modern, safe systems programming language.

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