
At Percona Live Europe 2026, Dmitry Lenev and I presented JavaScript in My Database? Over My Dead Query, the story of component_js_lang, the V8-based JavaScript engine for Percona Server for MySQL 8.4. That experience told us few things:…

Sooner or later, someone on the team reads about write skew. It is an unsettling read: two transactions, each correct on its own, each looking at data the other is about to change, both committing, and the database ending up in a state…
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`primary_conninfo` tells a standby where to stream WAL from—but only after the archive and pg_wal run dry. (I consult on PostgreSQL through PGX Inc..)