--- title: "Vitess is coming to Postgres" publication: "Postgres Weekly" issue: 603 published_at: "2025-06-12" canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/603" --- Plus how Postgres made it to WebAssembly with PGlite. | #​603 — June 12, 2025 [Web Version](https://postgresweekly.com/issues/603) Together with [![Cockroach Labs logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_740,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:10/d9sktlkk3ipcaszkhybd.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/fyfw3cojzzqul41wwmku.jpg)](https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres) [Announcing Multigres: Vitess for Postgres](https://supabase.com/blog/multigres-vitess-for-postgres) — [Vitess](https://vitess.io/) is a popular clustering system for scaling and sharding MySQL. Supabase has hired Sugu Sougoumarane, one of its creators, to build a Vitess for Postgres, using everything learnt building Vitess over the years. [Citus](https://github.com/citusdata/citus) and [PgDog](https://pgdog.dev/) are other options in this space, but Sugu thinks there’s more that can be done. Paul Copplestone (Supabase) [AWS Open Sources `pgactive`, Its Active-Active Replication Extension](https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2025/06/open-sourcing-pgactive-active-active-replication-extension-postgresql/) — `pgactive` is a replication extension that builds atop Postgres’s logical replication features adding capabilities that simplify managing active-active replication scenarios. 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Cockroach Labs sponsor **IN BRIEF:** - 🇱🇻 [The CFP for PostgreSQL Conference 2025](https://www.postgresql.eu/events/pgconfeu2025/news/pgconfeu-2025-call-for-presentations-176/), taking place this October in Riga, Latvia, is now open. - Teresa Lopes is [the latest _PostgreSQL Person of the Week_](https://postgresql.life/post/teresa_lopes/)interviewee. - Popular Postgres firm [_Crunchy Data_ has been acquired by Snowflake](https://snowflake.com/en/news/press-releases/snowflake-acquires-crunchy-data-to-bring-enterprise-ready-postgres-offering-to-the-ai-data-cloud/), an 'AI data cloud' company. ▶[Compiling Postgres to WebAssembly with PGlite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlWWG5WZHOA) — [PGlite](https://pglite.dev/) is a neat project that’s a complete WASM build of Postgres, enabling Postgres to run in some unusual contexts, such as [right in the browser.](https://pglite.dev/repl/) This talk explains the project and some of the complexities involved in making it work. Sam Willis 📄 [Approximate the P99 of a Query with `pg_stat_statements`](https://www.pgmustard.com/blog/approximate-the-p99-of-a-query-with-pgstatstatements) Michael Christofides 📄 [Using Regular Expressions and Arrays in Postgres](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/using-regular-expressions-and-arrays-in-postgresql/) – A reminder of the basics. Hans-Jürgen Schönig 📄 [Don't Mock The Database: Data Fixtures are Parallel Safe and Fast](https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/dont-mock-the-database-data-fixtures-are-parallel-safe-and-plenty-fast) Brandur Leach (Crunchy Data) 📄 [Features I Wish MySQL Had But Postgres Already Has](https://www.bytebase.com/blog/features-i-wish-mysql-had-but-postgres-already-has/) Tianzhou 📄 [What's New in Postgres 18 - A DBA's Perspective](https://www.bytebase.com/blog/what-is-new-in-postgres-18/) Tianzhou 🛠 Code and Tools [py-pglite: A PGlite Wrapper in Python for Testing](https://github.com/wey-gu/py-pglite) — Install a Python package and get a [PGlite](https://pglite.dev/)-powered WebAssembly Postgres instance ready to roll with no Docker, setup, or config files needed. Wey Gu [pgrwl: Stream Postgres WALs with Zero Data Loss](https://github.com/hashmap-kz/pgrwl) — A write-ahead log (WAL) receiver written in Go. It’s a drop-in, container-friendly alternative to [pg_receivewal](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/app-pgreceivewal.html), supporting streaming replication, encryption, compression, and remote storage (S3, SFTP). Alexey ZH [Greenmask: Postgres Data Masking and Obfuscation Tool](https://docs.greenmask.io/latest/) — A Go-powered utility for dumping a Postgres database and anonymizing the data in a deterministic way. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/GreenmaskIO/greenmask) Greenmask [Postgres CDC Connector for ClickPipes Now Generally Available](https://clickhouse.com/blog/postgres-cdc-connector-clickpipes-ga) Sai Srirampur (ClickHouse) 📰 Classifieds Prevent Postgres slowdowns in production with this [monthly performance check list](https://pganalyze.com/tools/postgres-performance-check-list?utm_source=postgresweeklyclassified_06122025) to catch issues before they grow. --- How Notion’s engineering team tackled viral user growth to [run PostgreSQL at scale](https://pganalyze.com/blog/how-notion-runs-postgres-at-scale?utm_campaign=postgresweeklyclassified05292025%20) on Amazon RDS with pganalyze. - [Addax 6.0](https://github.com/wgzhao/Addax/releases/tag/6.0.0) – A fast and versatile ETL tool supporting over 20 SQL/NoSQL data sources. - [Bytebase 3.7](https://github.com/bytebase/bytebase/releases/tag/3.7.0) – Database devops and CI/CD system for teams. - [ChartDB 1.13](https://github.com/chartdb/chartdb) – Open-source diagram-based database editor. - 🗾 [Martin 0.17](https://github.com/maplibre/martin/releases/tag/v0.17.0) – Fast Rust-powered PostGIS map tile server. - [Citus 13.1](https://github.com/citusdata/citus/releases/tag/v13.1.0) – Distributed Postgres as an 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. 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