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Recently at Postgres Conference 2026 in San Jose, I presented a talk called Let's Build a Postgres Extension! Since that entire presentation was primarily focused on writing a C extension while exploring the Postgres source code, I only…
PostgreSQL 18 finally fixes the autovacuum formula that left billion-row tables waiting for 200M dead tuples.
Six years after PostgreSQL shipped the table access method API, the alternative storage engine ecosystem is thriving—but messier than early predictions…
Joins on billion-row Postgres tables crush real-time dashboards. Flatten your schema to cut shared buffer hits 70–90% and restore dashboard speed.