Postgres Observability: A Diagram of Views and Functions for Observing Postgres — An interactive diagram that provides a simplified view of system views and functions relevant to monitoring Postgres and tracking statistics. This is a Postgres 13 flavored update of a previous effort and Alexey explains more here.

Alexey Lesovsky

Analyzing GPS Trajectories at Scale with Postgres, MobilityDB, and Citus — MobilityDB adds temporal and spatio-temporal objects to Postgres and PostGIS and this post digs into what that means in a practical sense and how Postgres can be made to work with not just locations but movement.

Mahmoud Sakr

Free eBook: How to Get a 3x Performance Improvement on Your Postgres Database — Learn our best practices for optimizing Postgres query performance for customers like Atlassian and how to reduce data loaded from disk by 500x.

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Replication Conflicts and How to Deal with Them — How can replication conflicts occur if the standby server is read-only? Enter vacuums, locks, buffer pins, and more to make life difficult! Luckily, there are various ways to mitigate the problems and Laurenz shares some tips to do so.

Laurenz Albe

Developers Increasingly Pair MongoDB with Postgres, Survey Finds — An interesting finding that comes out of a new Studio3T survey of 18,000 developers.

Matt Asay

How to Analyze a Postgres Crash Dump File — We really hope you’ll never have to do this, but if you do end up with a core dump from running Postgres, these tips might help you navigate it.

Cary Huang

Is It Time to Modernize the PostgreSQL Core Team? — Álvaro wonders if anyone shares his misgivings about the processes, structure and governance of Postgres core.

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5 Ways to Host PostgreSQL Databases — This guide covers various ways to run PostgreSQL: self-managed, managed by cloud providers, managed by third parties.

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phpPgAdmin 7.13.0 Released — Popular Web-based Postgres administration tool. Drops PHP 7.1 support, adds support for Postgres 13 (and 14, provisionally).

Robert Treat

NoisePage: A 'Self Driving' Database Management System — NoisePage is an open source, relational database (that uses a Postgres-compatible wire protocol) out of CMU entirely focused on testing out autonomous deployment and machine learning optimization techniques.

Carnegie Mellon University Database Group