In the recent open-source data landscape, Valkey has emerged as a prominent player. Born as a Linux Foundation-backed, fully open-source fork of Redis (following Redis’s recent licensing changes), Valkey serves as a high-performance,…
Postgres Conference 2026 was held in San Jose, California, and once again, I was lucky to be invited to speak. This is a great show for the 'hallway track' where you talk to members of the community and discover many interesting things. I…
PostgreSQL 18 shipped asynchronous I/O. The dominant flavor on Linux was io_uring; everything else fell back to a worker pool controlled by io_method=worker. Early benchmarks from pganalyze, Aiven, and Better Stack showed real wins on…
Here is a GUC that ships with a warning label. The docs, which are normally restrained to the point of parody, state plainly that setting this parameter wrong can cause “irretrievable data loss or seriously corrupt the database system.”…