#619 — October 9, 2025 |
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Postgres Weekly |
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Building and Debugging Postgres — How to set up a container for building Postgres from source and then debugging it from GDB and VS Code. Useful tips if you want to start digging around Postgres internals. Stefanos Baziotis |
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Exploring Postgres to Parquet Archival for JSON Data with S3 Range Reads — How to move ‘cold’ JSON from Postgres to Parquet on S3 and then be able to fetch it back fast without reading whole files. Shayon Mukherjee |
How to Implement Postgres DevOps and Security — Review, approve, deploy, and enforce query access control. Plus dynamic data masking and audit trails. All-in-one GUI workspace, open-source, trusted by 350+ companies, including Linear and note.com. Bytebase sponsor |
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▶ Hands on Postgres 18: Async I/O, B-Tree Skip Scan, UUIDv7 — The founder of pganalyze presented a webinar digging into some of more noteworthy improvements in Postgres 18. The section on asynchronous I/O (running from 4:20 to 22:30) is particularly useful. Lukas Fittl |
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IN BRIEF:
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On Developing OAuth Support for Postgres — One of the first champions for OAuth support in Postgres (explored in a practical sense here) tells the tale of how it came to be in Postgres 18, why it’s exciting, and what’s yet to come. Jacob Champion |
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📄 Ratcheting with Postgres 📄 Postgres Migrations Using Logical Replication Elizabeth Christensen 📄 IBM Invites CockroachDB to Infest Its Mainframes with 'PostgreSQL' – A typically quirky headline for The Register! The real story is IBM is looking to offer a Postgres-like database on its mainframe hardware. The Register 📄 SkipScan in TimescaleDB: Why 📄 Key Operational Enhancements and Integration Options in Postgres 16 Sebastian Insausti |
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pgwatch 4.0: A Flexible Postgres Monitoring Solution — Provides a user-friendly interface through Grafana dashboards, letting you inspect various metrics (health, performance, index usage, I/O, etc.) and trends. v4.0 introduces a variety of enhancements and drops Grafana v10 support. CYBERTEC |
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pg_statement_rollback v1.5: Server Side Rollback at Statement Level — Add server side transaction rollback at statement level, like in Oracle or Db2. This version adds Postgres 18 support. Hexacluster |
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