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The Postgres community values feedback from testing of Beta releases, and with Docker it’s been easier to get pre-release versions up and running. With the recent announcement of PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1, let’s get that running and test some…
Cloudflare recently described how a slowdown in its billing pipeline was traced to contention inside the query planning stage of ClickHouse. The team profiled the bottleneck and patched ClickHouse to replace an exclusive lock with a shared…
PostgreSQL solves a bootstrapping puzzle with `data_directory`: how to find the config file before knowing where the data lives.
I shared a chart, in 2022, showing where PostgreSQL contributor gifts are mailed to. Here's an updated chart (click to zoom in.) To quickly recap: the PostgreSQL community has been sending gifts to those who contribute directly to a new…