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The true cost of Postgres optimization isn't the cloud bill. It's 12-16 engineer-weeks per year that never show up on a budget report.
PostgreSQL 18.4, 17.10, 16.14, 15.18, and 14.23 are out as of May 14, 2026. The release fixes eleven security issues and more than sixty bugs. That is not a typo. Eleven CVEs is the largest single-release security batch I can remember, and…
PostgreSQL 19 brings back MERGE PARTITIONS and SPLIT PARTITION—but simpler and safer than the first attempt.
When a partitioning change to our petabyte-scale ClickHouse cluster caused critical billing jobs to stall, standard metrics showed no obvious errors. This post explores how we identified severe lock contention in ClickHouse's query planner…