--- title: "OrioleDB's patent now available to the Postgres community" publication: "Postgres Weekly" issue: 615 published_at: "2025-09-11" canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/615" --- Plus pgEdge goes open source, and Postgres 18 is due in two weeks today. | #​615 — September 11, 2025 [Web Version](https://postgresweekly.com/issues/615) Together with [![pgAnalyze\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_350,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/lhwcvgc1asd4fzaahty4.png)](https://events.zoom.us/ev/AobVQd89GZ9_3qw_XbUppUb9Xm4Zp0HzFugyyCzNEjgwrylG8mUQ~Arr3pRJm39ddhsqIYZ2rhHZ9vSpPnPYy7zeKqLzUW5iJ6JAjrQOCl74inME_ZMUfs9o3fpAab_SND8y9xk6zNdNSRA) Postgres Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/ppthfcm8ahmx87sfbnys.jpg)](https://motherduck.com/blog/pg-duckdb-release/) [pg_duckdb 1.0: DuckDB-Powered Postgres for High Performance Analytics](https://motherduck.com/blog/pg-duckdb-release/) — An official Postgres extension (built in collaboration with Hydra and MotherDuck) that embeds [DuckDB](https://duckdb.org/)’s columnar-vectorized analytics engine and features into Postgres. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/duckdb/pg_duckdb) DuckDB [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/cf36db2a.png)](https://events.zoom.us/ev/AobVQd89GZ9_3qw_XbUppUb9Xm4Zp0HzFugyyCzNEjgwrylG8mUQ~Arr3pRJm39ddhsqIYZ2rhHZ9vSpPnPYy7zeKqLzUW5iJ6JAjrQOCl74inME_ZMUfs9o3fpAab_SND8y9xk6zNdNSRA) [Hands on Postgres 18: Async I/O, B-tree Skip Scan & More](https://events.zoom.us/ev/AobVQd89GZ9_3qw_XbUppUb9Xm4Zp0HzFugyyCzNEjgwrylG8mUQ~Arr3pRJm39ddhsqIYZ2rhHZ9vSpPnPYy7zeKqLzUW5iJ6JAjrQOCl74inME_ZMUfs9o3fpAab_SND8y9xk6zNdNSRA) — With Postgres 18 set to release this month, now is the time to understand its performance-focused updates: from asynchronous I/O and planner changes, to B-tree Skip Scans, UUIDv7, VACUUM changes, and enhanced monitoring for production workloads. pganalyze sponsor [Postgres 18 Release Candidate 1 Released](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/postgresql-18-rc-1-released-3130/) — Just as we were about to hit ‘send’ last week, the official blog post about RC1 dropped and we snuck it in, but it was a quick mention, so worth featuring again in case you missed it. We also learn **the final release is due in two weeks on September 25.** PostgreSQL Global Development Group 💡 Umair Shahid shares [the three features he's most looking forward to](https://stormatics.tech/blogs/3-features-i-am-looking-forward-to-in-postgresql-18) in Postgres 18. [Supabase Opens the OrioleDB Patent to the Postgres Community](https://supabase.com/blog/orioledb-patent-free) — [OrioleDB](https://www.orioledb.com/) appeared three years ago as a new storage engine for Postgres. Supabase [acquired it](https://supabase.com/blog/supabase-acquires-oriole) in 2024 and is now allowing others to use the technology described in [the patent](https://patents.google.com/patent/US10325030B2/). Paul notes: _"Our north star is to upstream Oriole to be part of the Postgres source tree, developed and maintained in the open alongside the rest of Postgres (if the community want it!)"_ Paul Copplestone (Supabase) **IN BRIEF:** - 🇪🇸 [Postgres Ibiza 2025](https://postgresql.fund/blog/postgres-ibiza-2025/) is taking place this October 15-17 on the beautiful island of Ibiza. What's it like? Jesús Espino [wrote about his experiences at last year's event.](https://postgresql.fund/blog/my-experience-at-pgibz-2024-by-jesus-espino/) - The _Neon_ serverless Postgres platform has announced [it's no longer locking premium features, like HIPAA and SOC 2 compliance, behind higher enterprise tiers](https://neon.com/blog/why-we-no-longer-lock-premium-features) – instead, making such features more 'pay as you go' for all users. - The Postgres project took part in [Google Summer of Code](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/) again and one student participant, Ahmed Gouda, [shares what he achieved with his work](https://0xgouda.github.io/posts/my-postgresql-gsoc25-journey/work-and-results/) focused on [pgwatch.](https://github.com/cybertec-postgresql/pgwatch) - 🇮🇳 [PGConf India 2026](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgconf-india-2026-call-for-papers-3133/) is taking place next March 11-13 in Bengaluru and [its CFP](https://www.pgconf.in/conferences/pgconfin2026/program/proposals/new) is open till October 15. [Can Collations Be Used Over `citext`?](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/can-collations-be-used-over-citext/) — _“A custom nondeterministic collation can indeed serve as an alternative to `citext` for case-insensitive queries, often with a much lower performance penalty.”_ Umut Tekin 📄 [Deep Dive into Postgres Internals: Process Architecture](https://www.enterprisedb.com/blog/postgres-internals-deep-dive-process-architecture) Srinath Reddy (EDB) 📄 [Postgres 18 Eyes Analytics Boost and Distributed Future](https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/04/postgresql_18/) – _The Register_ casts its eye over the forthcoming Postgres 18 release. Lindsay Clark 📄 [A Trip to Vienna with Surprises](https://www.cybertec-postgresql.com/en/a-trip-to-vienna-with-surprises/) – A write up of attending [PGDay Austria](https://pgday.at/) which took place last week. Christoph Berg 📄 [A 'TPC-C'-like 'Extension Pack' for `pgbench`](https://kmoppel.github.io/2025-09-06-introducing-pgbench-tpcc-like-toolkit/) Kaarel Moppel **RELEASES:** [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/r2pc9y3ozsj1dupflsum.jpg)](https://sqlformat.darold.net/) [pgFormatter 5.7: A Tool to Format SQL Code](https://sqlformat.darold.net/) — You can test it out online, or you can grab [the source from GitHub](https://github.com/darold/pgFormatter) (it’s written in Perl) and run it for yourself. [What’s new in v5.7.](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/pgformatter-v57-has-been-released-3125/) Gilles Darold [pgEdge goes Open Source](https://www.pgedge.com/blog/pgedge-goes-open-source) — [pgEdge](https://github.com/pgedge) is an enterprise-focused Postgres distribution concentrating on high availability, and distributed deployments that can work in a multi-master fashion. It was previously a commercial product with ‘source available’, but is now licensed under the OSI-approved PostgreSQL license. Dave Page [vectorwrap: Universal Vector Search Wrapper](https://github.com/mihirahuja1/vectorwrap) — If you’re a Python developer, this lets you switch between Postgres, MySQL, SQLite, and DuckDB vector backends quickly. Mihir Ahuja - [pREST (PostgreSQL REST) 2.0 RC3](https://github.com/prest/prest) – Put a RESTful API in front of a Postgres database. - [BemiDB 1.3](https://github.com/BemiHQ/BemiDB) – Single binary Postgres read replica optimized for analytics. - [pgai v0.12](https://github.com/timescale/pgai) – Timescale's tools to work with RAG and LLMs in Postgres. - [pgroll 0.14.2](https://github.com/xataio/pgroll) – Zero-downtime, reversible schema migrations. - [Supavisor 2.7](https://github.com/supabase/supavisor) – Supabase's multi-tenant connection pooler. **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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