Postgres 18 Beta 2 Released — The second beta of Postgres 18 is now available, pending a final release in the next couple of months. The draft release notes remain the best way to get up to date, but this post includes some of the changes and fixes since beta 1.

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Lessons from Scaling Postgres Queues to 100K Events Per Second — RudderStack decided to use Postgres as their main queueing system rather than something like Kafka and their team shares the story of what they learned scaling it up to work, including explaining some very specific Postgres configuration tweaks.

Aris Tzoumas (RudderStack)

How Darkhorse Emergency Tamed Complex PostgreSQL Schemas — See how Darkhorse Emergency replaced fragile SQL scripts with Atlas’ declarative schema management to safely evolve a logic-heavy Postgres system. Faster migrations, safer deploys, and more devs contributing to the database.

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How Matrix Discovered and Recovered from a Postgres Corruption Issue — Matrix is a popular decentralized communications system, though it does offer a ‘home server’ for people new to the system. This home server, backed by a large Postgres instance, recently ran into index corruption issues, and here’s the rather detailed tale behind it.

Richard van der Hoff