--- title: "Kafka is fast, but Postgres will do" publication: "Postgres Weekly" issue: 622 published_at: "2025-10-30" canonical_url: "https://postgresweekly.com/issues/622" --- Plus a new way to compare features between Postgres versions. | #​622 — October 30, 2025 [Web Version](https://postgresweekly.com/issues/622) Together with [![TigerData logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_1280,h_296/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:30/ri3mjutb8cydvqo9zn6r.png)](https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/postgres-for-agents) Postgres Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/fxxr7ew1lsnr4rl5kffr.jpg)](https://pgfeaturediff.com/?from=17&to=18) [pgfeaturediff: Compare Features Between Postgres Versions](https://pgfeaturediff.com/?from=17&to=18) — Powered by Postgres’s [official feature matrix](https://www.postgresql.org/about/featurematrix/), this site gives you an easy way to directly compare the difference in features between two Postgres versions of your choice. Sebastian Steenssøe 💡 [PG Version Report](https://pgversions.com/) is a similarly useful tool where you supply your server's version string and get to see CVEs, bugs, EOL dates, and a comparison with Postgres 17. [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/8da6d7ca.png)](https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/postgres-for-agents) [Agentic Postgres: Build AI Apps Natively in Postgres](https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/postgres-for-agents) — Tiger Data’s new Agentic Postgres brings AI-native primitives to Postgres—forkable DBs, built-in memory, hybrid search, and agent APIs. Spin up zero-copy branches in seconds and experiment safely. Try it free on Tiger—no credit card needed. TigerData sponsor 📊 [Kafka is Fast, I'll Use Postgres](https://topicpartition.io/blog/postgres-pubsub-queue-benchmarks) — Inspired by [a recent post](https://dizzy.zone/2025/09/24/Redis-is-fast-Ill-cache-in-Postgres/) about using Postgres instead of Redis, the author sets out to see if Postgres is good _enough_ to handle use cases for which you might naturally consider [Kafka.](https://kafka.apache.org/) Stanislav Kozlovski 💡 This post led to [one of Hacker News's busiest discussions](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45747018) on Postgres this year. **IN BRIEF:** - 🇨🇭 [CERN PGDay 2026](https://www.swisspug.org/cern-pgday-2026.html) is a Postgres event taking place in the outskirts of Geneva next February 6. Its CFP is open till December 7. - 🇪🇺 Floor Drees shares [her experience of last week's PGConf EU event.](https://dev.to/floord/my-pgconf-eu-2026-experience-2li7) - 🎤 The _Talking Postgres_ podcast caught up with Postgres contributor Andres Freund to [discuss what went wrong (and right!) with implementing asynchronous I/O](https://talkingpostgres.com/episodes/what-went-wrong-what-went-right-with-aio-with-andres-freund) in Postgres 18. - 👥 The Postgres project has [updated its contributors page](https://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/) with [several new contributors](https://www.postgresql.org/about/news/new-postgresql-contributors-2025-3158/) and four contributors promoted to _Major Contributors._ [pg_textsearch: True BM25 Ranking and Hybrid Retrieval](https://www.tigerdata.com/blog/introducing-pg_textsearch-true-bm25-ranking-hybrid-retrieval-postgres) — Impressed by [ParadeDB’s](https://github.com/paradedb/paradedb) BM25 ranking for full text search, Tiger Data wanted something they could run on their own Postgres-based system. Currently only in preview on [Tiger Cloud](https://www.tigerdata.com/cloud), it’s uncertain if this will be open sourced in due course, but we’ve got our fingers crossed. Green and Arye (Tiger Data) 📄 [Returning Multiple Rows with Postgres Extensions](https://www.pgedge.com/blog/returning-multiple-rows-with-postgres-extensions) – A handy read if you’re working on a Postgres extension of your own. Shaun Thomas 📄 [Oracle’s Adoption of a Native Boolean Data Type vs. Postgres](https://hexacluster.ai/blog/postgresql/oracles-adoption-of-native-boolean-data-type-vs-postgresql/) – Oracle finally gets a feature Postgres has had for decades. Pavan Chary 📄 [Postgres 18's UUIDv7: Faster and Secure Time-Ordered IDs](https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/postgresql-18-s-uuidv7-faster-and-secure-time-ordered-ids) Vinicius Negrisolo **RELEASES AND CODE:** [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/jspdqcd32umpy3toq4r9.jpg)](https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v14/) [PostgREST 14.0: A REST API for any Postgres Database](https://docs.postgrest.org/en/v14/) — A popular and long standing Haskell-powered server for providing a RESTful API to the Postgres database of your choice. [v14.0 release notes.](https://github.com/PostgREST/postgrest/releases/tag/v14.0) Steve Chavez and Joe Nelson 📰 Classifieds How [note.com](https://www.bytebase.com/blog/note-case-study/?utm_source=postgres_weekly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=postgres_weekly_20251030%20), Japan's top C2C creator platform, replaced its GitHub Actions + SSH proxy flow with JIT access control for more secure Aurora Postgres access. --- 🌐 [Deploy anywhere at any scale with confidence](https://www.pgedge.com/support), backed by dedicated support with decades of PostgreSQL experience. [pg_easy_replicate 0.4: Switch Databases with Minimal Downtime](https://github.com/shayonj/pg_easy_replicate) — A Ruby-powered orchestrator to simplify the task of setting up logical replication between two Postgres databases then letting you switch over to the newer one with minimal downtime. Shayon Mukherjee - [TimescaleDB 2.23](https://github.com/timescale/timescaledb/releases/tag/2.23.0) – Time series capabilities for Postgres in an extension. Now with full Postgres 18 support, UUIDv7 compression enabled by default, and the ability to set hypertables to unlogged. - [WhoDB 0.66](https://github.com/clidey/whodb) – Lightweight next-gen data explorer for multiple databases. - [PgDog 0.1.13](https://github.com/pgdogdev/pgdog) – Horizontal scaling for Postgres with automatic sharding. - [ChartDB 1.17](https://github.com/chartdb/chartdb) – Open-source diagram-based database editor. **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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