--- title: "Lots of Postgres 18 news" publication: "Postgres Weekly" issue: 599 published_at: "2025-05-08" canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/599" --- Plus what Microsoft has been doing for Postgres recently. | #โ€‹599 โ€” May 8, 2025 [Web Version](https://postgresweekly.com/issues/599) Together with [![CockroachDB logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_1280,h_208/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:20/kc2yrdtxrbi5l06eiurj.png)](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreilly-cockroachdb-the-definitive-guide/?utm_source=postgres-weekly&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=postgres-weekly-newsletter-global-tofu-one-to-many-crdb-content-oreilly-definitive-guide-2ed-final-release-april-2025) Postgres Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/omacmxvsxigzrz01yepn.jpg)](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-18.html) [The Draft Release Notes for Postgres 18](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-18.html) โ€” Bruce Momjian has just completed his first draft of the Postgres 18 release notes in time for Beta 1. The final release is expected in September or October. Bruce Momjian et al. [Postgres 18 Beta 1 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-beta-1-released-3070/) โ€” The first official look at Postgres 18 has just landed in the past few hours. The [release notes](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/release-18.html) paint the big picture, but PG18 is shaping up to be a solid release with faster scans and vacuuming on Linux, parallel GIN builds, virtual generated columns, OAuth support, enhanced `EXPLAIN ANALYZE` output and more. It's time to go and play. Jonathan Katz et al. ๐Ÿ“ข [Postgres 17.5, 16.9, 15.13, 14.18, and 13.21](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-175-169-1513-1418-and-1321-released-3072/) have also been released. 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Cockroach Labs sponsor [Accelerating Disk Reads with Asynchronous I/O in Postgres 18](https://pganalyze.com/blog/postgres-18-async-io) โ€” The first beta release of Postgres 18 adds limited asynchronous I/O (AIO) support โ€“ something thatโ€™s been years in the making. This post explains what it is, how it works, and what it means for performance optimization. Lukas Fittl **IN BRIEF:** - Microsoft's Claire Giordano has published a rather epic [writeup of Microsoft's work on Postgres over the past year](https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/whats-new-with-postgres-at-microsoft-2025-edition/4410710) โ€” whether on its own services like _Azure Database for PostgreSQL_ or in terms of its contributions to the core Postgres project. - ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ [PGConf NYC 2025](https://2025.pgconf.nyc/) takes place this September in New York City. If you want to speak, you have till May 25 [to submit a proposal.](https://2025.pgconf.nyc/callforpapers/) - ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ญ [Swiss PGDay 2025](https://www.pgday.ch/2025/) takes place on June 26-27 and [the schedule](https://www.pgday.ch/2025/#schedule) has just been published. - Timescale announces [_pgai Vectorizer_ is now compatible with any Postgres setup.](https://www.timescale.com/blog/pgai-vectorizer-now-works-with-any-postgres-database) - Koyeb has announced its [Koyeb Serverless Postgres platform is now GA.](https://www.koyeb.com/blog/serverless-postgres-ga-production-ready-databases-for-large-scale-and-ai-apps) ๐Ÿ“„ [Another Look into CTE Materialization and Non-Idempotent Subqueries](https://www.shayon.dev/post/2025/124/another-look-into-postgresql-cte-materialization-and-non-idempotent-subqueries/) Shayon Mukherjee ๐Ÿ“Š [PgDog vs. PgBouncer By the Numbers](https://pgdog.dev/blog/pgbouncer-vs-pgdog) โ€“ Three scaling options go head to head. Lev Kokotov ๐Ÿ“„ [Migrating from Postgres to MongoDB in a .NET EF Core App](https://www.thepolyglotdeveloper.com/2025/05/migrating-from-postgresql-to-mongodb-in-a-net-ef-core-application/) โ€“ Not the direction Iโ€™d be heading, but if you need to do it.. Luce Carter ๐Ÿ“„ [Jacob Champion Becomes a Postgres Committer](https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/jacob-champion-becomes-postgresql-committer) Caroline Pickens (EDB) ๐Ÿ“„ [Which LLM Writes the Best Analytical SQL?](https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/which-llm-writes-the-best-sql) Ramirez and Romeu (Tinybird) **QUICK RELEASES:** [Announcing pg_parquet v.0.4.0](https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/announcing-pg_parquet-v-0-4-google-cloud-storage-https-storage-and-more) โ€” pg_parquet provides a way to export and import Parquet files directly within Postgres, without relying on third-party tools. Aykut Bozkurt (Crunchy Data) - [external_file 1.2](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/external_file-v12-has-been-released-3069/) โ€“ An extension to allow access to external files from Postgres server file systems. - [csv-to-sql-insert](https://github.com/gitdagray/csv-to-sql-insert) โ€“ A tool that takes a CSV file and turns it into an SQL `INSERT`statement. - [River 0.21](https://github.com/riverqueue/river) โ€“ Robust job processing system for Go and Postgres. - [pg_timetable 5.13](https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pg_timetable) โ€“ Advanced scheduling extension. **Got a new email?** You can [change your address here](https://postgresweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*). --- **Bored of us?** [Click here to stop getting Postgres Weekly](https://postgresweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*). --- **Got a link for us?** Reply and tell us. We can't include everything but we'll look at anything you send. _Thanks!_ --- Published by Cooper Press Ltd. 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