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Postgres 19 is just a smorgasbord of new functionality; it's genuinely hard to believe they packed all these new features into a single release. To that laundry-list of new capabilities, it adds something I almost missed. We all know and…
Uber explained how it keeps its OpenSearch deployments running during a zone outage. It does this by using OpenSearch's built-in shard allocation and its own isolation-group system, which relies on the Odin container orchestration…
PostgreSQL's `exit_on_error` GUC promotes every error to a session-terminating event—but this fail-fast illusion masks a destructive truth.
Spock 6 has landed in Beta. pgEdge's multi-master replication extension now runs on PostgreSQL 16, 17, 18, and 19, tracks replication progress in shared memory instead of a catalog table, spills oversized replay queues to disk, and reports…