#657 — July 15, 2026 |
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Postgres Weekly |
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The Four Horsemen Behind Thousands of Postgres Outages — Two weeks ago we mentioned pgrust, an AI-assisted rewrite of Postgres in Rust (which now passes 100% of Postgres's regression tests). Here, its creator outlines the biggest Postgres pain points he set out to conquer with the rewrite. Michael Malis |
🗣️ In the meantime, Hacker News discovered |
Search Without a Second System — One Postgres for your application data, full-text search, vector retrieval, and aggregations. ParadeDB is an open-source Postgres extension that keeps pace with Elasticsearch. ParadeDB sponsor |
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How to Achieve Pruning When Querying by Non-Partitioned Columns — If a non-partition key column correlates strongly with your partition key (e.g. sequential session IDs in time-partitioned data), Haki Benita |
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IN BRIEF:
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How SQL/PGQ Rewrites to Joins on Postgres 19 — Behind the scenes of Postgres 19's support for graph queries and how the graph query syntax compiles down to plain joins. Hans-Jürgen Schönig |
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▶ Fixing Bad SQL in Postgres with Jimmy Angelakos — A 55-minute talk of concise explanations of common SQL anti-patterns paired with live Jimmy Angelakos |
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📄 The Version Number is Not the Territory – A story of a server claiming to be Postgres 14 outputting an error Postgres 14 doesn't even have. Christophe Pettus 📄 Waiting for Postgres 20: 📄 📄 How We Scale PgBouncer in ClickHouse Managed Postgres Kaushik Iska (ClickHouse) |
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RELEASES AND CODE: |
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plx: Write Stored Functions in PHP, JavaScript, Python, and More — Hot on the heels of last week's PL/Ruby comes a more general extension that transpiles JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby and even COBOL to PL/pgSQL! Command Prompt Inc. |
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pg_re2: Fast, RE2-Powered Regular Expressions in Postgres — Google's re2 offers more predictable execution time on regexes than the traditional backtracking approach. ClickHouse shows off its use in Postgres here. David Wheeler and Philip Dubé |
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Andre Landgraf (Neon) |
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pgsavvy: A Vim-Style TUI for Working With Databases — A Go-powered TUI app for browsing and querying Postgres databases from the terminal, complete with Vim-style navigation, SQL completions, and interactive Dave Savic |
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